Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BOULTON

BOULTON, a township-chapelry in St. Peter parish, Derbyshire; on the Derby canal, 3 miles SE of Derby. Post Town, Derby. Acres, 1,240. Rated property, 1,500. Pop., 224. Houses, 45. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £120. Patrons, the Landholders. the church is partly Norman, and in good condition.


(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: Derbyshire AncC
Place: Boulton

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