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BUTTERLEY, Derbyshire

"BUTTERLEY is a hamlet, in the parish of Pentrich, and hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, 3 miles from Alfreton, and about 2 from Ripley; it contains but few houses, and derives its importance from being the site of the extensive iron-works of the Butterley Company, where, and at Codnor Park, the manufacture of iron is conducted upon a scale of immense magnitude: all the heavier articles in cast iron a produced at these works, including bridges, steam engines, various kinds of machinery, and water and gas pipes." [There is further information for Butterley]

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

Bibliography

• Schofield, R B - Benjamin Outram. Merton Priory Press, 2001.
  ISBN 1-898937-42-7.

Directories

• A Description of Butterley and Directory for Butterley, Codnor Park, Denby, Heage, Horsley, Horsley Woodhouse, Kilburne and Ripley transcribed from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835 by Rosemary Lockie.

Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Butterley from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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