DENBY, a parish in the hundred of MORLESTON-and-LITCHURCH,
county of DERBY, 8 miles (N.N.E.)
from Derby, containing 1073 inhabitants. The living
is a perpetual curacy, in/ the archdeaconry of Derby, and
diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed with £200
private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £1200
parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Earl of
Chesterfield. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. Jane
Massie, in 179,8, bequeathed an estate towards erecting
and endowing a free school; the income is £4?. 10.,
with a house and garden for the master, who teaches
twenty-five children. John Flamsteed, a celebrated
mathematician, and Astronomer Royal, was born here in
1646; he died at Greenwich in 1719.