A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
ROWSLEY, a village and a township in Bakewell parish, and a chapelry partly also in Darley and Youlgreave parishes, Derby. The village stands on the river Derwent, at the influx of the Wye, and on the Derby and Buxton railway, 3½ miles S E of Bakewell; and has a r.station with telegraph, a post-office under Bakewell, and a hotel. The township comprises 667 acres. Real property, £1, 344. Pop., 295. Houses, 53. The manor belongs to the Duke of Rutland. The chapelry was constituted in 1860. Pop., 616. Houses, 107. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £55.* Patron, the Duke of Rutland. The church was built in 1855, and enlarged in 1859; and includes a mortuary chapel, containing a fine monument to the late Lady John Manners.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a township" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Darley Tn/CP/AP Youlgreave CP/AP Derbyshire AncC |
| Place: | Great Rowsley |
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