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.
RIDDINGS, a village and a chapelry in Alfreton parish, Derby. The village stands ½ a mile W of Pye-Bridge r. station, and 2½ S W by S of Alfreton; and has a post-office under Alfreton. The chapelry was constituted in 1835. Pop. in 1861, 4, 145. Houses, 772. R. House is the seat of J. Oakes, Esq. There are collieries, ironmines, and iron-works; and they have ready facility ofconveyance by the Erewash railway and the Cromfordcanal. The living is a p. curacy, united with the chapelry of Somercotes, in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £150.* Patron, the Vicar of Alfreton. The church was built in 1845, at a cost of £4,000; is in the early English style; and has a tower and lofty spire. There are chapels for Independents, Baptists, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists, and national and infant schools.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Alfreton CP/AP Derbyshire AncC |
| Place: | Riddings |
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