Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HOLLOWAY

HOLLOWAY, a village in Dethwick chapelry, Ashover parish, Derby; on a bold acclivity, near the Cromford canal, 3¼ miles NE of Wirksworth. It has a postoffice under Matlock, and chapels, of recent erection, for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Ashover CP/Tn/AP       Derbyshire AncC
Place: Holloway

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