FOSTON & SCROPTON, Derbyshire
Church Records
- The church was in the rural deanery of Longford.
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Description and Travel
"FOSTON, a township in the parish of Scropton, hundred of Appletree, county Derby, 6 miles N.W. of Burton. At Scropton is a railway station on the North Staffordshire line, about 1½ mile S.E. of this village. It is situated on the N. bank of the river Dove. Foston Hall is the principal residence. Here is a meet for the Hoar Cross hounds."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of
Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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Gazetteers
- The transcription of the section for Foston & Scropton from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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Politics and Government
- This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).