Description
Brailsford, a village and a parish in Derbyshire. The parish lies on an affluent of the river Dove, 6 miles W of Duffield railway station, and on the old London Road, 7 NW of Derby, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Derby. Acreage, 4366; population of the civil parish, 639; of the ecclesiastical, 612. This was formerly a Roman settlement. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £553 with residence. Patron, Earl Ferrers. The church is good, and there are two Methodist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
