NORBURY WITH ROSTON, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"NORBURY WITH ROSTON, a parish in the hundred of Appletree, county Derby, 5 miles S.W. of Ashbourne, its post town, and 2¾ from Rocester. It is a station on the North Staffordshire railway. The village, which is of small extent, is situated on the river Dove, and is wholly agricultural. The living is a rectory* with the curacy of Snelston annexed, in the diocese of Lichfield.

The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is an ancient structure, with a tower containing three bells. The interior of the church contains several large windows filled with ancient stained glass, also monuments of the Fitzherberts, and a brass, bearing date 1538, of the Fitzherbert family. The church was restored in 1841. The parochial charities produce about £37 per annum, of which £17 goes to the free school, founded in 1678 by Thomas Williams. Thomas Fitzherbert, Esq., of Swinnerton, Staffordshire, is lord of the manor."

"ROSTON, a hamlet in the parish of Norbury with Roston, hundred of Appletree, county Derby, 5 miles S.W. of Ashbourne. It is in conjunction with Norbury to form a township"

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