Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DUCKMANTON

DUCKMANTON, a parish in Chesterfield district, Derby; 3 miles SSE of Staveley r. station, and 4 E of Chesterfield. It has a post office under Chesterfield. The statistics are returned with Sutton. There are coal and iron works. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the rectory of Sutton, in the diocese of Lichfield. There is no church.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Chesterfield Poor Law Union/Registration District       Derbyshire Ancient County
Place: Duckmanton

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