RISLEY, a chapelry partly in the parish of SANDIACRE, and partly in that of SAWLEY, hundred of MORLESTON-and-LITCHURCH, county of DERBY, 7 miles (E. by S.) from Derby, containing 288 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Prebendary of Sawley in the Cathedral Church of Lichfield, endowed with £200 private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Earl of Stamford and Warrington. A school-house was erected, in 1718, by Elizabeth Gray, who endowed it with certain lands, now producing, with a rent-charge of £13. 6. 8. previously bequeathed by Catharine Willon, an annual income of about £380, for which from fifty to seventy boys, and about fifty girls, receive gratuitous instruction. The poor are entitled to be admitted into Smedley's almshouse at Ilkeston. Sir Hugh Willoughby, a native of this place, was employed to discover the north-west passage in the reign of Edward VI., but was frozen to death with his crew on the coast of Lapland, in 1554.