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BREASTON, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"BREASTON, (or Breasdon) a chapelry in the parish of Wilne, in the hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, in the county of Derby, 7 miles to the E. of Derby, its post town. The Midland railway runs through it. Many hands are here employed in the manufacture of hosiery, about 50 frames being at work. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £119, in the patronage of the Earl of Stamford. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. There are several charitable endowments, producing about £16 a year."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin HINSON ©2003]