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THORPE, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"THORPE, a parish in the hundred of Wirksworth, county Derby, 3 miles N.W. of Ashbourne, its railway station and post town, and 10 S.W. of Wirksworth. The village is situated on the river Dove. To the N. of the village is a conical limestone hill called Thorpe Cloud, rising 300 feet above the bed of the river, which flows at its base. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Lichfield, value £144, in the patronage of the bishop. The church, dedicated to St. Leonard, is old. The parochial charities produce about £2 per annum."

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

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