Foremark
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  Foremark shown within Derbyshire |
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| District | South Derbyshire |
| Shire county | Derbyshire |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | DERBY |
| Postcode district | DE65 |
| Police | Derbyshire |
| Fire | Derbyshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| European Parliament | East Midlands |
| List of places: UK • England • Derbyshire | |
Foremark is a small manor or hamlet with a ruling Lord's (in this case Baronet) country house - Foremarke Hall - in the countryside of southern Derbyshire, England and is near the hamlets of Ingleby, Ticknall, Milton and the Village of Repton, although its postal address is referred to as within Milton. It is also a few miles to the east of the famous town Burton upon Trent (famed for its industries, especially brewing, and railways).
The parish church of St Saviour was built in 1662 by Sir Francis Burdett. It retains most of its original furnishings [1].
It is noted not only for its beautiful scenery of 40 acre fields, woods and the lake, but also the reservoir named Foremark reservoir nearby; and is the campus of a prep school Repton Preparatory School or simply Foremarke Hall, the casual name after the manor house, the junior section of the famous Senior Repton School.
[edit] Early History
Foremark is mentioned in 1086 in the Domesday book[2]. The book says [3] under the title of “The lands of Nigel of Stafford[4]
”In Foremark Ulfkil had two carucates of land to the geld. There is land for 2 ploughs. There is now one plough in demesne and 5 villans and 3 bordars have one plough. There is one mill rendering 2 shillings and 24 acres of meadow, woodland pasture half a league long and as much broad. TRE[5] worth 40 shillings now 15 shillings.“
[edit] Post 1900
Foremark saw a more active role in WW2 when the hall was an officer training centre, and the fields around were a Starfish site (a decoy site to distract German bombers on route to bomb Derby) (There were several other decoy sites in the vicinity - see [1] for details)
[edit] References
- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus. 1986. The Buildings of England:Derbyshire. pp 216-217. Harmondsworth, Middx. Penguin.
- ^ Foremark is spelt Fornewerche in 1086
- ^ Domesday Book: A Complete Transliteration. London: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 0-14-143994-7 p.753
- ^ Nigel of Stafford held a considerable number of manors including several in Derbyshire given to him by the King. These included obviously Foremark but also included lands in Drakelow, Stapenhill, Swadlincote, Ingleby, Ticknall and Smisby, (and Ravenstone, Donisthorpe, Oakthorpe and Trangesby in Leicestershire).
- ^ TRE in Latin is Tempore Regis Edwardi. This means in the time of King Edward before the Battle of Hastings.
