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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Litchurch like this:
LITCHURCH, a village and a township in Derby-St. Peter parish, Derbyshire. The village stands on the S border of the township, 1½ mile ESE of Derby; is a new and rapidly increasing place; and has several large ironworks and foundries. The township is all suburban to Derby; contains the town's r. ...
station, and its arboretum; and has acquired great recent increase of population, in connexion with the railway traffic, and from other causes. Real property, £1,013,340; of which £996,643, are on the Midland railway. Pop. in 1851,1,720; in 1861, 6,560. Houses, 1,350. The Derby workhouse is here; and, at the census of 1861, had 222 inmates.
Litchurch is now part of DERBY Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how DERBY has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Litchurch itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Litchurch, in Derby and Derbyshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21515
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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