Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ELTON

ELTON, a township-chapelry in Youlgreave parish, Derby; under Mouldridge hill, 1 mile NW of Winster, and 5 SW of Rowsley r. station. Post - town, -Winster, under Matlock. Real property, £2, 480. Pop., 491. Houses, 124. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the -dio. of Lichfield. Value, £120.* Patrons, the Inhabitants. The church was rebuilt in 1808. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township-chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Elton Ch/CP       Youlgreave CP/AP       Derbyshire AncC
Place: Elton

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