Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BRIDGE-HILL

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.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Duffield CP/AP       Derbyshire AncC
Place: Bridge Hill

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