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© Pentrich Historical Society 2000-2007

Updated Saturday, 26 July, 2008

Web site maintained by Helen Wilson

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THE STORY OF A REVOLUTION

The Evidence that Remains

Walking through the village of Pentrich today, the visitor could easily miss evidence of the Revolution. The information on this site is intended to point out what we know to be the landmarks associated with the events of 1817.

The plaques in our heritage trail explain the significant points before, during and after the Revolution of June 9^th, but the whole village landscape was very different.

Most houses were small cottages, of which only a few still remain. The Dog Inn is one building that was certainly around, and witnessed the events of the time. Up until recent rennovations and modifications, the Dog Inn did incorporate the ‘Revolution Bar’ which detailed the events of 1817.

See photos of the ‘Revolution Bar’ (as it was) [1] [2] [3] [4]

Also part of the landscape was the Church of St. Matthew. Other cottages and farms that have disappeared were built near the road, usually at right angles to it their newer replacements, are further back from the road.

The site of the White Horse Inn, for many years disputed, was recently identified from rental records at Chatsworth. Opposite the Churchyard, it was pulled down immediately after the Revolution and the land that went with it redistributed to other tenants. At the very centre of the village, the large stone houses that you can see, near the junction of Asher Lane and Main Road, were all constructed after 1825 on empty plots probably where revolutionaries used to live.

Where the Village Hall now stands (the former school) was the home of Thomas Bacon. The school was endowed by the Duke of Devonshire immediately after the Revolution and remained open until 1958.

One piece of history that does still remains however, is the fact that many of the plots of land along Main Road have the same boundaries as they do in the earliest maps. Today’s villagers have gardens in the same places where the villagers of 1817 lived, and the hedges and walls remain to this day.