CHELLASTON, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"CHELLASTON, a parish in the hundred of Repton, in the county of Derby, 41 miles S.E. of Derby. It is situated near the Grand Trunk and Derby canal. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £80, in, the patronage of the bishop. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is an ancient stone structure in the later English style, with a handsome tower. The Baptists and Reformed and Wesleyan Methodists have each a place of worship. Here are extensive gypsum mines, which form the chief employment of the inhabitants. The manor-house is said to have been the birthplace of Robin Hood."

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