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Crich in Derby County England History and GeographyCRICH, a parish partly in the hundred of MORLESTON and LITCHURCH, partly in the hundred of SCARSDALE, and partly in the hundred of WIRKSWORTH, county of DERBY, 4¾ miles (W. by S.) from Alfreton, containing, with the township of Wessington, and the hamlet of Tansley, 2961 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £6. 10. 10., endowed with £200 private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £600 parliamentary grant. The Lord Chancellor, by reason of lunacy, was patron in 1801. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There are two places of worship for Wesleyan Methodists, one at Crich, the other at Tansley. In 1825 an infant school was established in the parish. At Wessington, on the river Amber, there is a considerable cotton mill. Crich, formerly a market town, and now a large village, is situated on an eminence commanding extensive prospects, and has two annual fairs for cattle, on the 6th of April and the 11th of October. It is evidently a place of some antiquity, coins of Adrian and Dioclesian having been found in the adjacent lead mine, whence it is conjectured that lead was first obtained here by the Romans: at the period of the Norman survey, ';Leuric had a lead mine at Cric,' which is still wrought to a small extent: there are also quarries of lime-stone, and kilns for burning it. About one mile north of the village is Crick cliff, a lofty hill, upon the summit of which an observatory was erected in 1789. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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