Place:


Bridge Hill  Derbyshire

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bridge Hill like this:

BRIDGE-HILL, a chapelry, with a village, in Duffield parish, Derby; near the river Derwent and the Midland railway, and included in Belper. It was constituted in 1845. Post Town, Belper. Pop., 2,839. Houses, 563. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £150.* Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop.

Additional information about this locality is available for Belper

Bridge Hill through time

Bridge Hill is now part of Amber Valley district. Click here for graphs and data of how Amber Valley has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Bridge Hill itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Bridge Hill, in Amber Valley and Derbyshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24254

Date accessed: 29th March 2024


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