HARTSHORN, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"HARTSHORN, (or Hartshorne) a parish in the hundred of Repton, county Derby. The surface is hilly, and the soil extremely various. Coal and ironstone are wrought to some extent, and there is a manufactory for screws. The village is considerable. The tithes were commuted for land under an Enclosure Act in 1765. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Lichfield, value £540. The church is an ancient structure, dedicated to St. Peter. The Wesleyans have a chapel. The parochial charities produce about £90 per annum, chiefly the endowment of Dethick's free school."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin HINSON ©2003]