Winshill, Derbyshire

Description
Winshill, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Burton-upon-Trent parish, Derbyshire and Staffordshire. The township lies on the river Trent, 1 1/2 mile ENE of Burton-upon-Trent, and has a post and money order office (T.S.O.) under Burton-upon-Trent. Acreage of the Derbyshire portion, 469; population, 108; of the Staffordshire portion, 642; population, 3644. The manor belongs to the Marquis of Anglesey. There are a tape-mill and a corn-mill. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1867. Population, 3752. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £211 with residence. The church was erected in 1869, and is a handsome edifice situated on a hill. There are Free and Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels, and almshonses.