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WEST HALLAM, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"WEST HALLAM, a parish in the hundred of Morleston, county Derby, 7 miles N.E. of Derby. The surface is undulating, and the lower lands are watered by a rivulet which partly feeds the Nutbrook canal. The soil is chiefly a strong clay, alternating with marl. The tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £250. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in the collieries, which are extensively worked, the produce being conveyed by a branch of the Erewash canal, which unites with the Grand Junction canal.

There are also extensive ironworks in the parish, worked by Messrs. Whitehouse and Co. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield, net value £300. The church is dedicated to St. Wilfrid. There is a free school, founded in 1662 by the Rev. John Scargill, the annual income of which is about £200. The charities, exclusive of the school endowment, produce about £130. There is a mineral spring similar to that of Harrogate."

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

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