Description
Etwall, a township an d a parish in Derbyshire. The township lies 6 miles SW of Derby, has a station on the G.N.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Derby. Acreage, 2081; population of the township, 641; of the ecclesiastical parish, 892. The parish includes also the townships of Burnaston and Bearwardcote. Etwall Hall and Etwall Lodge are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £429 with residence. The church is a fine old Norman structure, and there is a Wesleyan chapel in the village. An hospital for 16 almsmen was founded in Etwall in 1577 on the same foundation as the grammar school at Repton. See REPTON.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
