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TWYFORD AND STENSON, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"TWYFORD AND STENSON, a chapelry in the parish of Barrow-on-Trent, hundred of Appletree, county Derby, 6 miles N.E. of Burton, its post town, 5 S.W. of Derby, and 2 N.E. of Willington railway station. It is situated on, the river Trent, near the Grand Trunk canal. The chapelry includes the township of Stenson. The living is a curacy annexed to the vicarage of Barrow, in the diocese of Lichfield. The church is dedicated to St. Andrew. There is a National school for both sexes, erected in 1842 on a site of land presented by Sir George Crew, Bart., who is lord of the manor."

"STENSON, a hamlet and township in the parish of Barrow-on-Trent, hundreds of Appletree and Morleston, county Derby, 4 miles S.W. of Derby. It is situated on the Birmingham and Grand Trunk railway, and is in conjunction with Twyford."

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