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EGGINTON, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"EGGINTON, (or Eggington) a parish in the hundred of Morleston, county Derby, 4 miles N.E. of Burton-on-Trent, its post town. It is situated near the old Roman highway Icknield Street, and within a short distance of the Willington station, on the W. branch of the Midland Counties railway. In Domesday Book it is written Eghintune, and is there described as having a church, a priest, a mill, and six farmers. The rivers Dove and Trent and the Grand Trunk canal pass through the parish.

The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Lichfield, value £453. The church is an ancient structure with a low tower, and has some remains of ancient stained glass. It is dedicated to St. Wilfrid. There is a school endowed with a house and garden. Sir Henry Every, Bart., is lord of the manor. The tithes were commuted for land under the Enclosure Act of 1791. On the neighbouring heath a skirmish took place in the reign of Charles I. between the royalists and parliamentarians, in which the former were routed."

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

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