BRADBY, a chapelry in the parish of REPTON,
hundred of REPTON and GRESLEY, county of DERBY,
3 miles (E.) from Burton upon Trent, containing 302
inhabitants. The living is a donative, annexed to the
perpetual curacy of Repton, at which place the inhabitants
marry and bury. Near the church is the site
of an ancient baronial mansion, which was fortified by
royal license in the year 1300; but its materials arcsupposed
to have-been used by the first Earl of Chesterfield,
in the erection of a residence, which he fortified
and garrisoned for the king, in 1642. After a short defence
it was captured by a strong detachment sent by
Col. Gell, and was taken down in 1780. A school for
teaching and clothing thirty boys, and another for thirty
girls, were established and supported by the late Earl
and Countess of Chesterfield, and are still continued.
Bradby is in the honour of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster,
and within the jurisdiction of a court of pleas
held at Tutbury every third Tuesday, for the recovery
of debts under 40s.