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ETWALL - Description from Pigot's 1835 Directory

ETWALL is a pleasant village, in the township of Etwall and Bearward-Cote, in the parish of Etwall, and hundred of Appletree, 6 miles W.S.W. from Derby, situate on the road leading from that town to Uttoxeter, in Staffordshire. This village is the residence of several genteel families, but is destitute of manufactures, and its local trade is very unimportant.

The church, which is dedicated to St. Helen, is a small stone edifice of considerable antiquity. The living is a vicarage, in the patronage of the Rev. Mr. Cockburne; here is an alms-house, originally endowed in 1566, by Sir John Port, Knight, who also founded and endowed a grammar school at Repton. In the nineteenth year of James I. a charter was granted which incorporated this establishment, and appointed special governors: the income of the estate, some years ago, amounted to £2.700, when there were fifteen persons in the almshouse.

The parish of Etwall, (including the hamlet of Burnaston), contained, at the last census, 605 inhabitants, of which number 471, were returned for the township of Etwall and Bearward-Cote.

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

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