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SWARKESTONE, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"SWARKESTONE, a parish in the hundred of Repton, county Derby, 5¾ miles S.E. of Derby, its post town. The village is near the junction of the Derby canal with the Grand Trunk canal, and at the old bridge on the river Trent, which has 29 arches, and is 3,912 feet in length, though the river is here only 514 feet wide, the additional arches being intended to secure a passage over the low grounds, which are usually flooded in winter.

At this place Sir J. Gell defeated the royalists in 1643. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield, value £182. The church, dedicated to St. James, contains some monuments to the Harpur family, whose mansion was garrisoned by the royalists in the reign of Charles I."

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

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