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NEWBOLD, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"NEWBOLD, a township in the parish of Chesterfield, hundred of Scarsdale, county Derby, 2½ miles N.W. of Chesterfield. The village, which is considerable, may be considered a suburb of Chesterfield. It is united with Dunstan to form a township. The living is a perpetual curacy* in the diocese of Lichfield.

The church is modern. There is a free school, endowed by George Milne with land producing an income of £25; also almshouses for three poor women, endowed by Mrs. Elizabeth Tomlinson in 1781 with the interest of £400 in the Four per Cents."

"DUNSTAN, (or Dunston) a township in the parish of Chesterfield, hundred of Scarsdale, in the county of Derby. 2 miles N.E. of Chesterfield. It is joined to Newbold."

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