Description
Dore, a village and a township, forming with Totley a parish in Derbyshire. The township lies 3 miles NW of Dronfield and 5 SW by S of Sheffield, and has a station on the M.R., and a post-office under Sheffield; money order and telegraph office, Totley. Acreage, 3593; population of the-civil parish, 1030; of the ecclesiastical, 1646. Between Dor& and Totley lies the junction of the Dore and Chinley line, by which the distance between Manchester and Sheffield was^ very much shortened, which was completed by the M.R. in 1893 at a cost of £1,250,000. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; value, £110 with residence. Patron, Earl Fitzwilliam. The church was rebuilt in 1828. There-is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
