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Entry TypeCorporate
Corporate NameManor of Dale Abbey
PlaceDale Abbey (extra parochial)
EpithetManor
HistoryThe abbey at Dale was founded in 1204. It was built in Stanley Park and received lands for its endowments from several benefactors. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, its sites and demesnes were granted by King Henry VIII to Francis Pole in 1544, in which same year he conveyed it to Sir John Port. On the death of his son, also Sir John Port, in 1557 it passed to the latter’s daughter, Dorothy, who married Sir George Hastings, later the 4th Earl of Huntington. One of his descendants in the Hastings family sold it in the early years of the 17th century to Sir Henry Willoughby. On his death in 1605 it was held by four co-heiresses, and later passed in moieties to the Grey and D’Ewes families. The D’Ewes moiety was sold in 1716 by Sir Symmond D’Ewes to the trustees of Philip, Earl of Chesterfield, for his son, Alexander, father of the first Earl of Stanhope. In 1778 the other moiety was purchased from the Earl of Stamford by the Stanhopes, uniting the whole of the manor again. The Earls Stanhope remained lords into the mid-20th century.

Nature of Jurisdiction
As Dale Abbey was also an ecclesiastical peculiar, the manor had probate jurisdiction. The courts ceased to be held after 1860.
SourceDerbyshire Archaeological Journal Vol. 64 (1943), pp1-25, “The Dissolution of Dale Abbey” by H.M. Colvin
Magna Britannia: Volume 5: Derbyshire by Daniel and Samuel Lysons (1817) pp. 95-96
The History, Topography and Directory of Derbyshire by T. Bulmer (1895) p. 513
The History, Gazetteer and Directory of the County of Derby, by S. Glover, Vol. 2 pp.338-339 (1833)
Dale and its Abbey by John Ward, 1891
Court records (18th-19th cent) at the Derbyshire Record Office
Authorised Form of NameDale Abbey (extra parochial); Manor of Dale Abbey; Manor

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