BARLBOROUGH, Derbyshire
Description and Travel
"BARLBOROUGH is a parish (having no dependent township) in the same hundred as Eckington, about three miles S.S.E. therefrom, nearly eight N.E. from Chesterfield, and about three W. from the village of Whitwell. In the neighbourhood are extensive collieries and mines of iron-stone; and the turnpike roads from Chesterfield to Worksop, and from Sheffield to Mansfield, cross, near the Village, at right angles."
[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]
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Directories
- A Description of Barlborough has been transcribed by Heather Faulkes from Pigot's Directory of 1828.
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Gazetteers
- The transcription of the section for Barlborough from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.