STANTON-BY-BRIDGE, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"STANTON-BY-BRIDGE, a parish in the hundred of Repton, county Derby, 6½ miles S.E. of Derby, its post town, and the same distance E. of Willington railway station. The village is small, is situated near Swarkestone-bridge over the river Trent, and is wholly agricultural. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Lichfield, value £345. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is an ancient stone structure, with a turret and three bells. There is a Church school. Sir R. Burdell is lord of the manor."

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