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WESTON UPON TRENT, Derbyshire

"WESTON-UPON-TRENT is a small parish, in the same hundred as Shardlow, the village being about two miles south from Aston, and four from Shardlow. The Trent & Mersey canal passes through the parish - which is in the honour of Tutbury. One mile hence is Donington park, one of the seats of the Marquess of Hastings. The church is dedicated to St. Mary: the living is a rectory, in the patronage of Sir Robert Wilmot, Bart. The parish contained at the last census (1831), 387 inhabitants, being an increase only of seven persons since the returns made thirty years before. parish"

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

Directories

• A Description of Weston upon Trent has been transcribed by Heather Faulkes from Pigot's Directory of 1828.

• Directory for Shardlow with Aston, and Weston-upon-Trent and neighbourhoods transcribed from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835 by Rosemary Lockie.

Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Weston upon Trent from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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