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BRAILSFORD, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"BRAILSFORD, a parish in the hundred of Appletree, in the county of Derby, 7 miles to the N.W. of Derby, its post town. Ednaston is a hamlet of this parish The living is a rent*. in the diocese of Lichfield, of the value of £673, in the patronage of Earl Ferrers. The Wesleyan Methodists have a chapel here. There are some charities of small value."

"EDNASTON, a hamlet in the parish of Brailsford, county Derby, 5 miles S.E. of Ashbourne. Ednaston Lodge is the principal residence."

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