KEDLESTON, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"KEDLESTON, a parish in the hundred of Appletree, county Derby, 4½ miles N.W. of Derby, its post town, 5 S.W. of Belper, and 2 S.W. of Duffield. It is a small village, situated on a branch of the river Derwent, and is a meet for the Hoar-Cross hounds. The land is chiefly rich pasture, and the greater part of the parish is included within the limits of Kedleston Park.

The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Lichfield, value £155. The church, dedicated to All Saints, is an ancient cruciform structure, with a low tower containing one bell. The interior contains several monuments to the Curzon family. There is a Roman Catholic chapel.

Kedleston Hall, the residence of Lord Scarsdale, is situated in a well-wooded park, stocked with deer, and watered by a lake, over which is a bridge of three arches, forming one of the approaches to the Hall. The gallery contains a choice collection of paintings by the most renowned masters, and a series of sculptures of the ancient school. Lord Scarsdale is lord of the manor andsole landowner.

Bath rooms have been built in connection with the sulphureous spring, the water of which is efficacious in cutaneous and scorbutic diseases."

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