Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BRACKENFIELD

BRACKENFIELD, a township-chapelry in Morton parish, Derby; 2 miles SW of Stretton r. station, and 4 NW of Alfreton. Post Town, Alfreton. Real property, £3,498. Pop., 317. Houses, 77. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £80.* Patron, G. Tunbutt, Esq. The church was built in 1855. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel and a national school.


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

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Feature Description: "a township-chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Brackenfield CP/Tn       Morton AP/CP       Derbyshire AncC
Place: Brackenfield

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