Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BARLOW (Great)

BARLOW (Great), a chapelry in Staveley parish, Derby; on a small stream, 4¼ miles NW of Chesterfield r. station. It has a post office, of the name of Barlow, under Chesterfield. Acres, 3,760. Real property, £2,966. Pop., 682. Houses, 137. The property is divided among a few. Barlow-Grange is a chief residence. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £95.* Patron, the Rector of Staveley. The church is good. Charities, £8.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Great Barlow CP/Ch       Staveley AP/CP       Derbyshire AncC
Place names: BARLOW     |     BARLOW GREAT     |     GREAT BARLOW
Place: Barlow

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