RIDDINGS-WITH-IRONVILLE, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"RIDDINGS-WITH-IRONVILLE, a manufacturing and market town and ecclesiastical district in the parish of Alfreton, hundred of Searsdale, county Derby, 2½ miles S.E. of Alfreton, its post town. It is situated near Butterley Park. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in the iron and coal mines. In the town are extensive iron-works, forges, and furnaces, for smelting iron-ore. The new line of road from Manchester to Nottingham, and a branch of the Cromford canal, pass through this place, which has rapidly increased within the last half-century. The population in 1861 was 4,146.

The living is a perpetual curacy* with the curacy of Somercotes annexed, in the diocese of Lichfield, value £150, in the patronage of the Vicar of Alfreton. The church, dedicated to St. James, was erected in 1830, the cost of which was partly defrayed by subscription, and partly by the parliamentary commissioners. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, and Wesleyans."

"IRON-VILLE, a manor in the parish of Alfreton, county Derby, 3 miles S.E. of Alfreton. It is situated on the Erewash canal."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin HINSON ©2003]