HOGNASTON, a parish, with a village, in Ashborne district, Derby; on an affluent of the river Dove, 5 miles NE of Ashborne r. station. Post town, Ashborne. Acres, 1, 384. Real property, £2, 883. Pop., 295. Houses, 68. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to H. Chandos Pole Gell, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £58. * Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is very ancient; has a fine Saxon arch, and a square tower; and was recently in bad condition. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel, and charities £5.

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