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Horsley - Description from Pigot's 1835 Directory

HORSLEY is a township and village, in the parish of its name, in the hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, about 6 miles and a half N.N.E. from Derby, and between two & three from Duffield. The church, which is dedicated to St. Clement, though of considerable antiquity, is spacious and handsome, and is surmounted by a spire of curious workmanship. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the patronage of the Earl of Chesterfield, and incumbency of the Rev. Thomas Millward. A national-school was erected in 1828, and is supported by voluntary contributions. The parish contained, in 1831, 1,948 inhabitants, and the township 649 of that number.

HORSLEY-WOODHOUSE is a village, in the parish of Horsley, and contiguous to that township. Nail making prevails here to some extent. The township contains 709 inhabitants.

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

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