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.
CLAYCROSS, or Claylane, a township and a chapelry in North Wingfield parish, Derby. The township lies on the Midland railway, 4½ miles S of Chesterfield; and has a station on the railway, and a post office‡ under Chesterfield, both of the name of Claycross. Pop., 4, 096. Houses, 709. The chapelry was constituted in 1852, and is more extensive than the township. Rated property, £8, 213. Pop., 4, 922. Houses, 875. The property is much subdivided. Extensive collieries and iron-works are here; and have British schools, with institute and public hall, built at a cost of £4, 000. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £300.* Patron, the Rector of North Wingfield. The church was built in 1851, and is in the early English style. There are three Methodist chapels.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | North Wingfield CP/AP Derbyshire AncC |
| Place names: | CLAYCROSS | CLAYCROSS OR CLAYLANE | CLAYLANE |
| Place: | Clay Cross |
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