WHITWELL, Derbyshire
Church History
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Lawrence.
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Church Records
- The church was in the rural deanery of Staveley.
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Description and Travel
"WHITWELL is a parish, in the hundred of Scarsdale; the village is situate at the N.E. extremity of the county, and is twelve miles N.E. from Chesterfield. The Duke of Portland is lord of the manor. The church is dedicated to St. Lawrence; the living is a rectory, in the patronage of the Duke, and in the incumbency of the Rev. George Mason, of Cuckney, Nottinghamshire; the Rev. J. Harnage is the present curate."
[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]
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Directories
- A
Description of Whitwell has been transcribed by Heather Faulkes
from Pigot's Directory of 1828.
- Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Whitwell entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).
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Gazetteers
- The transcription of the section for Whitwell from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.