Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HALLAM (KIRK)

HALLAM (KIRK), a township in Shardlow district, and a parish partly also in Belper district, Derbyshire. The township lies adjacent to the Erewash river, canal, and railway, and to the boundary with Notts, 2 miles SW of Ilkeston r. station, and 8 ENE of Derby. Acres, 727. Real property, £1, 077. Pop., 101. Houses, 18. The parish includes also the township of Mapperley; and its post town is West Hallam, under Derby. Acres, 1, 699. Real property, £2, 633. Pop., 536. Houses, 108. The property of Kirk-Hallam township is all in one estate; and that of Mapperley is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £280. Patron, Lieut. Col. Newdigate. The church consists of nave and chancel, with porch and embattled tower; and was restored in 1860. There is a chapel of ease in Mapperley. There are also a Wesleyan chapel, and a national school.


(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: Belper RegD/PLU       Derbyshire AncC
Place names: HALLAM     |     HALLAM KIRK     |     KIRK HALLAM
Place: Kirk Hallam

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