Description
Boulton, a township which, united with that of Alvaston, was constituted in 1884 a civil parish in Derbyshire, on the Derby Canal, 3 miles SE of Derby, which is the post town and nearest railway station. Area of the civil parish, 2154 acres; population, 3116; of the ecclesiastical parish of Boulton, 972. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £171 with residence. The church is partly Norman, and was restored in 1871 and in 1887. The Primitive Methodist New Connexion have a chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
