HOLMESFIELD, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"HOLMESFIELD, a chapelry in the parish of Dronfield, hundred of Scarsdale, county Derby, 2 miles W. of Dronfield, Chesterfield is its post town. It includes a large tract of uncultivated land. The living is a perpetual curacy* in the diocese of Lichfield, value £97. The church was rebuilt in 1826, at the cost of £550, and for every omission of divine service in this church, whether from illness or otherwise, the sum of 10s. is to be paid to the poor of the place. The Wesleyans have a chapel, and there is a school endowed with £18 per annum."

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