WilneExtract from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831.Transcribed by Mel Lockie, © Copyright 2010 Lewis Topographical Dictionaries DRAYCOTT, a liberty and chapelry, joint with Wilne, in the parish of SAWLEY, hundred of MORLESTON-and-LITCHURCH, county of DERBY, 6 miles (E.S.E.) from Derby, containing, with. Wilne, 1102 inhabitants. WILNE (GREAT), a parish in the hundred of MORLESTON-and-LITCHURCH, county of DERBY, 7 miles (S.E.) from Derby, containing, with the township of Shardlow, and the inmates of a large poor-house belonging to several townships, 993 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the prebendal court of Sawley, endowed with £1600 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Perpetual Curate of Sawley. The church is dedicated to St. Chad. WILNE (LITTLE), a chapelry in the parish of SAWLEY, hundred of MORLESTON-and-LITCHURCH, county of DERBY, 7 miles (E.S.E.) from Derby. The population is returned with the liberty of Draycott. |
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