SOMERSALL HERBERT, Derbyshire
Church History
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Peter.
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Church Records
- The church was in the rural deanery of Longford.
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Description and Travel
"SOMERSALL is a small village, in the parish of Somersall- Herbert, in the same hundred as Doveridge, and adjoining thereto. It contains a small ancient church, dedicated to St. Peter: the living is a rectory, in the patronage of the Earl of Chesterfield. The inhabitants of this parish and that of Doveridge, are chiefly employed in agriculture, the number in Somersall-Herbert in 1831, was 117, being an increase, in thirty years, of twenty-nine persons."
[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]
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Directories
- Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Somersall Herbert entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).
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Gazetteers
- The transcription of the section for Somersall Herbert from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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Politics and Government
- This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).