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ELMTON, Derbyshire

"ELMTON, a parish, in the same hundred as Bolsover is about 3 Miles N.E. from that town. This was the birth-place of Jedediah Buxton, the great arithmetic calculator. The church here, is dedicated to St. Peter: the living is a discharged vicarage, in the patronage of the Rev. C. H. R. Rodes. The parish contained in 1821, 352 inhabitants, and at the last census (1831) the number had decreased to 340."

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

Directories

• Directory for Bolsover, with the villages of Elmton, Pleaseley, Scarcliffe and neighbourhoods transcribed from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835 by Rosemary Lockie.

• Transcription of section of Kelly's Directory (1891) for Elmton by Ann Andrews.

Gazetteers

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

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