AN INLAND COUNTY, bounded on the North by Yorkshire, on the East by Nottinghamshire, on the South by Leicestershire, and on the West by Staffordshire. It is about 50 miles long and 38 broad. It is divided into six hundreds; namely, Appletree, HighPeake, Morleston and Litchurch, Repton and Gresley, Scarsdale and Wirksworth. It has eight MARKET-TOWNS ; Derby, Ashbourn, Bakewell, Chapel-inle-Frith, Chesterfield, Tideswell, Winster, and Wirksworth. Two members are returned to parliament for the county, and two for the borough of Derby. It is in the PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY, in the DIOCESE OF LITCHFIELD and Co

VENTRY, and in the MIDLAND CIRCUIT. It contains 1026 square miles, or 656,640 acres, and 139 parishes. It had 13 monastic institutions, and 66 public charities; it has 8 parishes with no church, 10 parishes, containing less than 100 people, 62 parishes with no parsonagehouse, 36 parishes in which the parsonage-house is unfit to live in. The PoorRATES of the county are 136,541.12s.64d. the number of PAUPERS is 14,939; the rental is 887,659l. 3s. 4d.; the POPU LATION, in 1821, was 233,330; the number of houses is 40,054; the rates, compared with the rental, one-sixth; the paupers, compared with the number of houses, 1 to every 3 houses; the poor-rates, in 1776, were 16,770l.; the number of persons to a mile in this county is 227; the number of acres to a person, 2; the number of acres to a house, 16; the male population, 105,873; the number of families employed in agriculture, 14,582; the number of families employed in handicraft, 20,505; the number of other families, 7,317; the number of the agricultural male population, 38,772; the number of able labourers, 19,386, and the number of acres of land to each able labourer is 39. This county is very mountainous. There are mines of coal, lead, and iron in it of considerable importance, and of very old standing-lead principally in the neighbourhoods of Castleton, Wirksworth, Matlock, and Winster; iron in Morley-Peak, near Heage, in Wingerworth, Chesterfield, and Staveley; coal,

more or less, all over the county. The soil is principally a reddish clay in the low lands; but amongst the hills, and even on the tops of some of them, are peat-bogs of great extent. In the midland and southern parts of the county the agriculture is about even pasture and tillage, dairy-farming being general; in the eastern parts, the land is chiefly in tillage, with the common rotation of crops. The cattle of the county are not particularly fine; the neat cattle bad milkers, but good for fatting; the sheep small.

ABNEY, in Hope parish, and popula. in

cluded therein. 4 miles from Tideswell.

ALDERWASLEY, in Wirksworth parish, and popula. included therein. 11 miles N. from Derby.

ALDWARKE, in Bradborne parish, and popula. included therein. 4 miles W. from Wirksworth. ALFRETON, 6 miles E. from Wirks

worth. Popula. 4,689. Market, Mon.; fairs, July 31, horses and horned cattle, Nov. 22, statute. ALKMONTON, in Longford parish, and popula. included therein. 5 miles S. from Derby.

ALLESTREY, 2 miles N. from Derby. Popula. 361.

ALLTON, in Wirksworth parish, and popula. included therein. ALVASTON, in St. Michael parish, Derby, and popula. included therein. 3 miles E. from Derby. ARLESTON, in Barrow parish, and popula. included therein.

ASH, in Sutton-on-the-Hill parish, and popula. included therein.

ASHBORNE, 139 miles N.W. from London. Popula. 4,708. Market, Sat.; fairs, first Tues. in Jan., Feb. 13, horses and horned cattle. April 3, May 21, July 5, ditto and wool; Aug. 16, horses and horned cattle; Oct. 20, Nov. 29. ditto. The fairs of horses begin three or four days before the fair-day. If the 29th of Nov. fall on Sunday, the fair is kept on the Saturday before, as the rule is to keep it on St. Andrew's eve.

BRAILSFORD,7 miles N.W. from Derby. Popula. 724.

BRAMPTON, 4 miles W. from Chester

field. Popula. 2,632. BRASSINGTON, in Bradborne parish, and popula. included therein. 4 miles from Wirksworth.

BREADSALL, 2 miles N.E. from Derby. Popula. 544. Here there was an Augustine Friary, founded in the reign of Henry III.; income 10l. 17s. 9d., now worth 2177. 15s.; granted, 6 Edw. VI., to Henry Duke of Suffolk.

BREASON, in Sawley parish, and popula. included therein. 7 miles from Derby.

Cell, founded in the year 1161, by
Maud, widow of the Earl of Chester;
granted, 1 Edw. VI., to John Earl of
Warwick.

CHADDESDEN, 2 miles E. from Derby.
Popula. 486.

CHAPEL-EN-LE-FRITH, 167 miles N.W. from London. Popula. 3,234. Market, Thurs.; fairs, Thurs. before Feb. 13, March 24, March 29, Thurs. before Easter, April 30, Holy Thurs., and three weeks after, for cattle, July 7, wool, Thurs. before Aug. 24, cheese and sheep, Thurs. before Sept. 29, Thurs. before Nov. 11, cattle.

and popula. included therein. 2 miles N.E. from Chesterfield.

BROUGH, in Hope parish, and popula. included therein. 4 miles from Tideswell.

BROWNSIDE, in Glossop parish, and popula. included therein." BRUSHFIELD, in Bakewell parish, and popula. included therein. BUBNELL, in Bakewell parish, and po

pula. included therein. BURNASTON, in Etwall parish, and popula. included therein.

BUXTON, in Bakewell parish, and popula. included therein. 11 miles E. from Macclesfield.

CALLOW, in Wirksworth parish, and po

pula. included therein. 2 miles from Wirksworth.

CALOW, in Chesterfield parish, and po

pula. included therein. CALVER, in Bakewell parish, and popula. included therein. 10 miles N.W. from Chesterfield. CASTLE-GRESLEY, in Church-Gresley parish, and popula. included therein. 4 miles from Burton. CARSINGTON, 2 miles W. from Wirksworth. Popula. 270. CASTLETON, 6 miles E. from Chapelfrith. Popula. 1,428.

CATTON, in Croxall parish, and popula. included therein. 5 miles from Burtonon-Trent.

CAULDWELL, in Stapenhill parish, and popula. included therein. 4 miles from Burton-on-Trent.

CAULK, 3 miles N. from Ashby. Popula. 63. Here there was an Augustine

and popula. included therein. CHELLASTON, 3 miles S. from Derby. Popula. 338.

CHELMERTON, in Bakewell parish, and popula. included therein. 44 miles N.W. from Bakewell.

CHESTER (Little), in St. Alkmund's parish, Derby, and popula. included therein. 1 mile from Derby. CHESTERFIELD, 1514 miles N.W. from

London. Popula. 9,190. Market, Sat.; fairs, Jan. 25, St. Paul; if Jan. 25 fall on Sunday, then kept on Sat., beasts, &c.; Feb. 28, first Sat. in April, May 4, July 5, cattle, horses, and pedlary; Sept. 25, cheese, onions, and pedlary; Nov. 25, toll-free, for cattle, sheep, and pedlary. Here there was an Hospital of Lepers, founded as early as the reign of Rich. I.; suppressed by Hen. VIII. CHILCOT, in Burton-on-Trent parish, Stafford, and popula. included therein. 7 miles from Burton. CHINLEY-BUGSWORTH, in Glossop parish, and popula. included therein. 7 miles N. from Chapel-le-Frith. CHISWORTH, in Glossop parish, and popula. included therein. 7 miles from Chapel-le-Frith.

CHUNAT, in Glossop parish, and popula.

included therein.

CHURCH-GRESLEY, 5 miles S.E. from
Burton. Popula. 1,951.
CHURCH-RROUGHTON and SAPPER-
TON, 8 miles W. from Derby. Po-
pula. 536.

CLAYLANE, in North-Wingfield parish, and popula. included therein. 4 miles from Chesterfield.

popula. included therein.

EATON, in Ashborne parish, and popula. included therein.

EATON (Little), in St. Alkmund's parish, Derby, and popula. included therein. 1 mile from Derby. ECKINGTON, 6 miles N.E. from Chesterfield. Popula. 3,598.

pula. included therein. 3 miles from Bakewell.

GREAT-HAMLET, in Glossop parish, and popula. included therein.

GRINDLOW, in Hope parish, and popu

la. included therein. 8 miles from Bakewell.

HADFIELD, in Glossop parish, and popula. included therein.

included therein. 4 miles N.N.E. from Chapel-le Frith.

EDLASTON and WYASTON, 2 miles S. from Ashborne. Popula. 277. EDENSON with CHATSWORTH, 1 mile N. from Bakewell. Popula. 752. EGGINTON, 7 miles S.W. from Derby. Popula. 319.

ELMTON, 7 miles E. from Chesterfield. Popula. 352.

ELVASTON, 4 miles S.E. from Derby. Popula. 493.

ELTON, in Youlgrave parish, and popula. included therein. 2 miles W. from Winster.

ETWALL, 6 miles S.W. from Derby. Popula. 593.

Derby. Popula. 706.

HARTHILL, or HARTLE, in Bakewell parish, and popula. included therein. HARTINGTON (Middle, Nether, and Upper), three townships close together, and forming one parish. 7 miles N. from Ashborne. Popula. 2,218. HARTSHORN, 4 miles S.E. from Burton. Popula. 870.

HASLAND, in Chesterfield parish, and

popula. included therein. 64 miles S.S.E. from Chesterfield.

HATHERSAGE, miles N.E. from Bakewell. Popula. 1,856.

HASSOP, in Bakewell parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile from Bake

well.

pula. 1,516.

FAIRFIELD, in Hope parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile E. from Buxton. FERNILEE, in Hope parish, and popula. included therein. 5 miles N. from Tideswell.

FINDERN, in Mickleover parish, and po pula. included therein. 3 miles S. from Derby.

FLAGG, in Bakewell parish, and popula.

included therein. 34 miles from Bakewell.

FOOLOW, in Eyam parish, and popula. included therein. 2 miles E. from Tideswell.

and popula. included therein. 6 miles from Burton.

HAZLEBADGE, in Hope parish, and po pula. included therein. 3 miles from Tideswell.

HAZLEWOOD, in Duffield parish, and popula. included therein. 6 miles N. from Derby.

HEAGE, in Duffield parish, and popula. included therein. 10 miles N. from Derby.

HEANOR, 9 miles N.E. from Derby. Popula. 4,981.

HEATH, 5 miles S.E. from Chesterfield. Popula. 411.

FOSTON.-See Scropton.

popula. included therein. 1 mile from Bakewell.

GLAPWELL, in Bolsover parish, and popula. included therein. 6 miles from Chesterfield.

included therein.

Popula. 13,766.

worth. Popula. 292.