ETWALL, Derbyshire
Church Records
- The church was in the rural deanery of Longford.
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Description and Travel
"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."
[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]
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Gazetteers
- The transcription of the section for Etwall from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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History
- Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Etwall by Barbarann Ayars.
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Politics and Government
- This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).