BEAUCHIEF-ABBEY, a liberty (extra-parochial),
formerly part of the parish of Norton, in the hundred
of SCARSDALE, county of DERBY, 3 miles (N. W. by N.)
from Dronfield, containing 97 inhabitants. The liberty,
comprising about one thousand acres, was, by a deed
executed at a court held at Richmond, March 14th,
1601, exempted from assessment for taxes. The living
is a donative, in the patronage of P. Pegge Burnall, Esq.
The chapel is a small edifice, erected about 1660, with
the exception of the tower, which formed part of a
monastery of Premonstratensian canons, founded here
in 1183, by Robert Fitz-Ranulph, and dedicated to St.
Thomas a Beckct, the revenue of which, at the dissolution,
was £15?. 10. 2.