Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MUGGINTON

MUGGINTON, a township in Belper district, and a parish partly also in Ashborne district, Derby. The township lies on an affluent of the river Derwent, 4 miles Wby N of Duffield r. station, and 5 S W of Belper; and contains a pleasant village of its own name, situated on an acclivity. Real property, £4, 112. Pop., 261. Houses, 52. The parish contains also the townships of Weston-Underwood and Mercaston, and the hamlet of Ravensdale Park. Post-town, Brailsford, under Derby. Acres, 5, 324. Real property, £8, 525. Pop., 689. Houses, 133. The property is divided among a few. The manor of Mugginton belongs to T. Hallowes, Esq.; and the manors of Weston-Underwood and Ravensdale Park belong to Lord Scarsdale. Mercaston Hall was an ancient seat of the Knivetons. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £526.* Patron, E. S. Chandos Pole, Esq. The church is early English; was recentlyrestored; consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with pinnacled tower; and contains the tomb of Sir R. Kniveton, who died in 1400. There are a national school, a girls'school, and charities £65, a portion of which goes to thenational 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: Ashbourne RegD/PLU       Derbyshire AncC
Place: Mugginton

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