SMISBY, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"SMISBY, (or Smithesby) a parish in the hundred of Repton, county Derby, 2 miles N.W. of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, its post town, and 9 S.W. of Burton railway station. The village is situated on the S.E. border of the county. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in agriculture. The parish includes the extra parochial place of Bondang, or Burton-road.

The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £58. The church, dedicated to St. James, is of great antiquity. The parochial charities produce about £41, arising from Church estate. There is a National school. The Wesleyans have a place of worship. Sir John Harper Crewe, Bart., is lord of the manor."

"BOUNDARY, an extra-parochial place in the hundred of Repton and Gresley, in the county of Derby, 2 miles from Ashby-de-la-Zouch." [Recorded as BONDARY ROAD, or BARTON ROAD in Gazetteer -RL 2003]

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