[3] In late Victorian times the name was said to have developed from the Old Norse deity name Dellingr,[4] Dalbury is mentioned twice in the Domesday book where it is spelt Delbebi and Dellingeberie.

The book records [5] firstly that there were three bovates which are berewicks of the manor of Mickleover which at that time belonged to the Abbey of Burton.

The Abbey held various manors including Appleby Magna, Winshill and Stapenhill - these were all within Derbyshire at that time.

There is a priest and a church and twenty acres of meadow, woodland pasture one furlong long and half a league broad.

Robert holds it.“Dalbury is the smaller of the two villages with a handful of houses, a church, and during the nineteenth century a school that could take sixty children.