HOGNASTON, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"HOGNASTON, a parish in the hundred of Wirksworth, county Derby, 5 miles N.E. of Ashbourne, its railway station and post town, and 5 S.W. of Wirksworth. The village, which is small, is situated on a branch of the river Dove. The inhabitants are wholly agricultural. The living is a perpetual curacy* in the diocese of Lichfield, value £55.

The church is an ancient structure with a square tower, and has a Norman doorway. The parochial charities produce about £5 10s. per annum, laid out in woollen cloth for the poor. The Primitive Methodists have a place of worship, and there is a Sunday-school. The executors of Philip Gill, Esq., are lords of the manor."

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