Description
Breaston, a township forming with Risley an ecclesiastical parish in the union of Shardlow, Derbyshire, on the Derby Canal and the M.R., half a mile from Draycott station, and 8 miles ESE of Derby, under which it has a post office; money order and telegraph office, Draycott. Area of township, 1493 acres; population, 882 ; of the ecclesiastical parish, 1130. The living is a rectory united with that of Risley in the diocese of Southwell; joint net value, £330. Patron, the Bishop of Southwell. The church was restored in 1871, and there are two Methodist chapels, an endowed school at Risley, dating from 1583, free to children of the seven neighbouring parishes.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
