WILLINGTON, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"WILLINGTON, a parish and township in the hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, county Derby, 4½ miles N.E. of Burton-on-Trent, and 6 S.W. of Derby. It is a station on the Midland railway. The parish is traversed by the Grand Trunk canal, connecting the Trent and Mersey, and by the rivers Trent and Dove, over the former of which is a bridge of five arches to Repton.

The village is situated on the road from Derby to Burton-upon-Trent, near the line of the ancient Icknield Street. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield, value £82, with 35 acres of glebe and tithe allotment, in the patronage of the Governors of Etwall Hospital and Repton Grammar School. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. The Baptists and Wesleyans have chapels. The charities produce about £13 per annum. Sir Robert Burdett, Bart., is lord of the manor."

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