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CRICH - Description from Pigot's 1835 Directory

CRICH is a parish, partly in the hundreds of Morleston and Litchurch, Scarsdale, and Wirksworth: the village is about five miles east of Wirksworth. and four west from Alfreton. The site of it is very lofty, and from the adjacent stand or prospect tower, which is a land-mark for a great distance around, a very extensive view is obtained. There are numerous stone quarries in the neighbourhood, and lime burning is largely carried on here.

The Cromford canal passes along the western side of the parish, and through a tunnel at its north-western and southern extremities; from the latter point a railway runs northward to within a short distance of the village. The church, which is dedicated to St. Mary, and has a conical spire, is built of the rough grey lime-stone of the hill on which it stands. The living is a discharged vicarage. and

Crich is supposed to be a place of considerable antiquity, coins of Adrian and Dioclesian having been found in an adjacent lead-mine, whence it is conjectured that lead was first obtained here by the Romans. The manor of Wakebridge in this parish, which formerly belonged to Darley Abbey, still enjoys the privelege of exemption from king's duty on lead ore. Fairs for cattle take place on the 6th April and 11th October. The parish of Crich contained, by the parliamentary returns for 1831, 3,087 inhabitants, of which number 507 were returned for the hamlet of Tansley, and 465 for the township of Wenington. (sic)

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835
Transcribed by Rosemary Lockie ©1999]

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