Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ETWALL

ETWALL, a township and a parish in the district of Burton-upon-Trent and county of Derby. The township lies on an affluent of the river Trent, 3½ miles NE by E of Tutbury r. station, and 6 SW by W of Derby; and has a post office under Derby. Real property, £4, 991. Pop., 626. Houses, 133. The parish includes also the townships of Burnaston and Bearwardcote. Acres, 3, 465. Real property, £6, 671. Pop., 846. Houses, 172. The property is subdivided. Etwall Hall and Etwall Lodge are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £342.* Patron, the Rev. Edward Alder. The church is good; and there is a Wesleyan chapel. An hospital and a free school, founded in 1556 by Sir J. Port, for Etwall and Repton, have £2, 569, and other charities have £12.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Etwall AP/CP       Derbyshire AncC
Place: Etwall

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