Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FERNILEE

FERNILEE, a township in Hope parish, Derby; 6 miles NNE of Tideswell. Acres, 2, 240. Real property, £3, 449; of which £150 are in mines. Pop., 767. Houses, 153. There are a powder-mill, barytes-works, a Wesleyan chapel, and two public schools.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Fernilee CP/Tn       Hope AP/CP       Derbyshire AncC
Place: Fernilee

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