Description
Alvaston, a township and a parish, formed from the civil parish of St Michael, Derbyshire, on the Derwent river, near the M.R., 3 miles SE of Derby, under which it has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 2154; population of the civil parish of Alvaston and Bolton, 3116 ; of the ecclesiastical parish of Alvaston, 2144. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £170 with residence. Patrons, the Parishioners. The church, which is in the Early English style, was rebuilt in 1856. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
