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SOMERSALL-HERBERT, 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)]
"SOMERSALL-HERBERT, a parish in the hundred of Appletree, county Derby, 3½ miles N.E. of Uttoxeter, its post town, and 3 N. of the Sudbury railway station. The village, which is of small extent, is situated on a branch of the river Dove, and is wholly agricultural. The parish- includes Church Somersall and Somersall Hill. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield, value £225. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. Lord Vernon is lord of the manor and principal landowner."

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