Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SHOTTLE AND POSTERN

SHOTTLE AND POSTERN, a township in Duffield parish, Derby; 5 miles S by E of Wirksworth. It has a station on the Wirksworth railway, a chapel of ease, and an endowed school. Acres, 3,741. Real property, £5,146. Pop., 427. Houses, 82.


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

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

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