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QUARNDON - Description from Pigot's 1835 Directory

QUARNDON is a village in the parish of its name, in the same hundred as Allestry, about three miles and a half N.N.W. from Derby; deriving some celebrity from its chalybeate waters, which are considered highly beneficial in cases of debility, and from the salubrity of its situation.

Upwards of a century ago it was much resorted to, and is still visited in the summer by numerous respectable persons. The spring rises in the park of Kedleston hall, the seat of Lord Scarsdale. A small church, and a respectable boarding academy for young gentlemen, are in the village. The living of Quarndon is a perpetual curacy, in the gift of Lord Scarsdale and incumbency of the Rev. William Barton. Sir John Curzon, in 1725, bequeathed an annuity of £20. for the support of a free school, for a limited number of children of poor parents residing in Quarndon, Kedleston and Weston.

The parish (which has no dependent township) contained, by the returns for 1821, 438 inhabitants, and by those for 1831, 487.

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

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