Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CHADDESDEN

CHADDESDEN, a parish in Shardlow district, Derbyshire; adjacent to the Derby canal and the Midland railway, 2 miles E of Derby. It has a post office under Derby. Acres, 2,080. Real property, £4,551. Pop., 465. Houses, 99. The property is divided among a few. Chaddesden Hall is the seat of Sir H. Wilmot, Bart. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of LichfieldValue, £89. Patron, Sir H. Wilmot, Bart. The church was restored in 1859, at a cost of £2,000. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, six alms-houses, and the Derby new cemetery, comprising 32 acres, and containing two mortuary chapels.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Chaddesden Ch/CP       Shardlow RegD/PLU       Derbyshire AncC
Place: Chaddesden

Go to the linked place page for a location map, and for access to other historical writing about the place. Pages for linked administrative units may contain historical statistics and information on boundaries.