Description
Barlborough, an extensive village and a parish in Derbyshire, near the Chesterfield Canal, 2 miles E of Eckington railway station, and 8 NE of Chesterfield. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Chesterfield. Population, 1900. Barlborough Hall, an edifice in the Elizabethan style, is the seat of the De Eodes family. There are extensive collieries, limekilns, and brick and tile works here. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £646 with residence. The church is old, and of mixed architecture. An almshouse for six widows, founded in 1752, has £69, and there are other charities.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
