TURNDITCH, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"TURNDITCH, a chapelry in the parish of Duffield, hundred of Appletree, county Derby, 9 miles from Derby, its post town, and 3½ W. of Belper. The village is situated on an eminence near a branch of the river Derwent. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the diocese of Lichfield, value £63, in the patronage of the Vicar of Duffield.

The church is dedicated to All Saints. There are a National school for both sexes, and Sunday and infant schools belonging to the Independents. The Primitive Methodists and Independents have chapels. Green Bank House is the principal residence. Sir Richard Paul Godrell, Bart., is lord of the manor."

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