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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Pilsley like this:
PILSLEY, a township in North Wingfield parish, Derby; 5¾ miles S E by E of Chesterfield. Real property, £2, 175. Pop. in 1851, 403; in 1861, 628. Houses, 117. Many of the inhabitants are employed in coal mining and iron-manufacture.
Pilsley is now part of NORTH EAST DERBYSHIRE District. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTH EAST DERBYSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Pilsley itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Pilsley, in North East Derbyshire and Derbyshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2384
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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