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CHARLESWORTH, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"CHARLESWORTH, a hamlet in the parish of Glossop, hundred of High Peak, in the county of Derby, 2½ miles S.W. of Glossop. It had formerly a market and fair, granted to the Abbot of Basingwerk. It is situated near the Manchester and Sheffield railway, which has a station at Glossop. The hamlet is bounded on the W. by the river Etherow.

The living is a perpetual curacy annexed to the vicarage, of Glossop, in the diocese of Lichfield, value £150, in the patronage of the crown and bishop alternately. The church, dedicated to St. John, is a neat modern edifice. The Wesleyan Methodists, Primitive Methodists, Independents, and Particular Baptists have places of worship. There is a National school, and schools in connection with some of the above Dissenting chapels."

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

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