Description

Allestree, a parish in Derbyshire, near Derwent river and the M.R., 2 miles N of Derby, under which it has a post office; money order and telegraph office, Quarndon. Acreage, 1163, population, 571. The chief residence is Allestree Hall, standing in a park of 100 acres. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £245. The ancient church of St Edmund, which was rebuilt and enlarged in 1866-67, contains tombs of the Mundys, and is very good. There is a Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapel.