RIDGEWAY, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"RIDGEWAY, an ecclesiastical district in the parish of Eckington, hundred of Scarsdale, county Derby, 7 miles N. of Chesterfield, and 3 N.E. of Dronfield. It comprises the townships of Ridgeway and Troway. The substratum abounds in coal, which is partially worked. In the village is a manufactory for scythes and sickles. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £300, in the patronage of the Rector of Eckington. The church, erected in 1840 at a cost of £2,200, has a small tower at the E. end. There is a chapel for Wesleyans, also a National school, built in 1837."

"TROWAY, a township in the parish of Eckington, hundred of Scarsdale, county Derby, 2½ miles E. of Eckington, and 5½ N.E. of Chesterfield. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in the manufacture of sickles and saw handles, and in the neighbouring collieries. It is supposed to have been once a Roman settlement."

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