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HOPTON, Derbyshire

"HOPTON is a small township, in the parish of Wirksworth, about two miles W. by S. from that town, placed in a deep valley, and guarded by lofty rocks. Here is the seat of Philip Gell, Esq. chairman of the quarter sessions for the county, whose family has been resident here since the time of Queen Elizabeth. In the village are alms-houses for two poor men and two poor women, erected by Sir Philip Gell in 1719 The population is 118."

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

Census

• Transcriptions of the Wirkswirth Area Census covering Hopton for 1841, 1851 and 1881 (other years to follow) are available on John Palmer's Wirksworth site. This site also features Histories of Hopton, from various sources.

Directories

• Directory for Wirksworth and Cromford, with the villages of Alderwasley, Brassington, Carsington, Hopton, Holloway, Lea and neighbourhoods transcribed from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835 by Rosemary Lockie.

Gazetteers

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

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