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TADDINGTON, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"TADDINGTON, a chapelry in the parish of Bakewell, hundred of High Peake, county Derby, 6 miles N.W. of Bakewell, its post town, and 4 S.E. of Tideswell. The village is situated in Taddington Vale. A short distance from the village, on the summit of Five Wells Hill, is a burial-place of the ancient Britons. The living is a perpetual curacy* in the diocese of Lichfield, value £87, in the patronage of the Vicar of Bakewell.

The church is dedicated to St. Michael. Near it is an ancient stump cross. The parochial charities produce about £10 per annum, exclusive of Priestcliff Grammar school, which is endowed with an annuity of £80, realised from land. There is also a free school for twelve poor children, endowed with an annuity of £15."

"PRIESTCLIFF, a chapelry and township in the parish of Bakewell, hundred of High Peak, county Derby, 3 miles S. of Tideswell. It is a joint township with Taddington, and derives its name from a cliff over Blackwall Dale, near the river Wye. There is a school in this township, founded and endowed by the late Rev. Roger Wilkinson."

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

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