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LITTLE EATON - Description from Pigot's 1835 Directory

LITTLE EATON is a chapelry and village, in that part of the parish of St. Alkmund which is in the hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, rather more than one mile from Duffield. Here are many valuable collieries and productive stone quarries; bleaching grounds, belonging to Messrs. Smith & Sons, and machine-paper works of Messrs. Tempest & Son; there are, besides, malting concerns, and corn-mills on the Derwent river.

This place has water communication with Derby by canal, to which town, and others more remote, coals are conveyed in great quantities, being brought hither by railroads from the several collieries. The Royal Mail and the Quicksilver post coach passes through here on their route to and from Sheffield and Derby. Here is a small but handsome church, the living of which is a perpetual curacy.

The chapelry contained, in 1821, 547 inhabitants, and in 1831, 610.

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

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