Description
Horsley Woodhouse, a village and a township in Horsley parish, Derbyshire, 3 1/2 miles ESE of Belper, and 1 mile from Derby station on the M.R. There is a post office under Derby; money order and telegraph office, Smalley. Acreage, 628; population, 934. It was formed into an ecclesiastical parish in 1878. Population, 906. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £216 with residence. The church, erected in 1882, is in the Early English style. There are also Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
