DALE-ABBEY, a  liberty (extra-parochial), in the
hundred of MORLESTON-AND-LITCHURCH, county of
DERBY, 7 miles (E. by N.) from Derby, containing 418
inhabitants. Here is a chapel within the jurisdiction of
the manor and peculiar court of Dale-Abbey. The poor
of this liberty are entitled to the benefit of the school at
West Hallam, founded by the Rev. John Scargill; and
of that at Risley, founded by Mrs. Elizabeth Grey.
There are the remains of an abbey of Premonstratensian
canons, which was founded about the year 1204, by
William Fitz-Rauf, seneschal of Normandy, and his
son-in-law Jeffrey de Salicosa Mara, in honour of the
Blessed Virgin Mary; at the dissolution its revenue
was estimated at £144. 12.