Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for OCKBROOK

OCKBROOK, a village and a parish in Shardlow district, Derbyshire. The village stands 1 mile N N E of the Derby canal and of Borrowash r. station, and 4¾ E of Derby; and has a post-office‡ under Derby. The parish contains also the village of Borrowash, and comprises 1, 730 acres. Real property, £5, 869. Pop. in 1851, 1, 763; in 1861, 1, 506. Houses, 344. The decrease of pop. was caused by depression in the silk glove trade. The property is much subdivided. There are many goodresidences. A large cotton factory is on the river Derwent at Borrowash; and a water and steam flour mill is at Shacklecross. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £160.* Patron, T. Pares, Esq. The church is partly Norman; was enlarged and repaired in 1835, at a cost of £700; and has a low tower, with Octagonal spire. There are a Moravian establishment, Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, national and infant schools, and charities £21 at Ockbrook; and a national school used as a chapel of ease, and Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels at Borrowash. The Moravian establishment was founded in 1750; comprisesthree boarding schools for respectively about 50 boys, 30girls, and 20 girls; and has, in the centre, a commodiouschapel, with a burial-ground behind.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Ockbrook AP/CP       Shardlow RegD/PLU       Derbyshire AncC
Place: Ockbrook

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