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SUTTON-ON-THE-HILL, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"SUTTON-ON-THE-HILL, a parish and township in the hundred of Appletree, county Derby, 8 miles S.W. of Derby, its post town, and 5 N. of Tutbury railway station. The village is situated on a branch of the river Dove. The parish includes the township of Osleston and the small village of Ash. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Lichfield, value £225. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. The parochial charities produce about £20 per annum, of which £12 go to a school."

"ASH, a hamlet in the parish of Sutton-on-the-Hill, hundred of Appletree, in the county of Derby, 7 miles to the W. of Derby."

"OSLESTON, a township in the parish of Sutton-on-the-Hill, hundred of Appletree, county Derby, 6½ miles N.W. of Derby, and 7½ N. W. of Sutton-on-the-Hill. It is joined with Thurvaston to form a township."

"THURVASTON, a township in the parish of Sutton-on-the-Hill, hundred of Appletree, county Derby, 7½ miles N.W. of Derby. It is joined with Osleston to form a township."

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

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