WINSHILL, Derbyshire
Description and Travel
"WINSHILL, a township in the parish of Burton-upon-Trent, hundred of Repton and Gresley, county Derby, 1½ mile N.E. of Barton, near the river Trent."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of
Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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Historical Geography
- Winshill was historically in Derbyshire, but
"transferred to Staffordshire in 1894 and now included
within the borough of Burton upon Trent."
(Ref: The Place-Names of Derbyshire, K. Cameron, Cambridge University Press, 1959)
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History
- Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Burton on Trent (contains information about Winshill) by Barbarann Ayars.