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CARSINGTON, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"CARSINGTON, a parish in the hundred of Wirksworth, in the county of Derby, 2 miles to the W. of Wirksworth, its post town. It is crossed by the Peak Forest railway. The district is hilly, and contains abundance of limestone, and some lead mines. The village stands in a sheltered valley. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield, value £176, in the patronage of the bishop.

The church, which is small and has no tower, is dedicated to St. Margaret. The rectory was held by John Oldfield, one of the Nonconformist ministers ejected in 1662 under the Act of Uniformity, and a century later by Ellis Farneworth, translator of the works of Machiavelli. In the village is a free school, endowed by Mrs. T. Gill in 1726, the income of which is above £80."

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

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