Description
Chellaston, a parish in Derbyshire, adjacent to the Derby and Melbourne railway, 4 miles SSE of Derby. It has a post and money order office under Derby; telegraph office, Derby, and a station on a branch of the M.R. Acreage, 851; population, 497. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in the alabaster quarries and gypsum mines. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £120. Patron, the Bishop of Southwell. The church is Later English, was mainly rebuilt in 1842 and restored in 1875, and has a fine tower. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
