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Scropton (St. Paul)

SCROPTON (St. Paul), a parish, in the union of Burton-upon-Trent, hundred of Appletree, S. division of the county of Derby, 11½ miles (W. S. W.) from Derby; containing, with the township of Foston, 523 inhabitants. It comprises about 3280 acres; the surface is flat, and watered by the river Dove. An allotment of Needwood forest in Staffordshire, on which houses have been erected, was awarded to Scropton under an inclosure act. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £49; patron and impropriator, J. Broadhurst, Esq. The glebe comprises 15 acres. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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