Kedleston, Derbyshire

Description
Kedleston, a parish in Derbyshire, on an affluent of the river Derwent, 3 1/2 miles SW by W of Duffield railway station, and 4 NW of Derby. There is a post and money order office (T.S.O.) at Kedleston Road, under Derby; telegraph office, Derby. Acreage, 959, of which 22 are water; population, 102. The property, with Kedleston Hall, belongs to Lord Scarsdale. The hall was erected in 1765 after designs by Adams, comprises a centre and two pavilions, with connecting corridors; has a frontage of 360 feet, with a portico on pillars 30 feet high; contains a grand hall 67 feet by 42, with ceiling supported by twenty alabaster columns; contains also a very fine circular saloon 42 feet in diameter and 55 feet high; has a rich collection of paintings, chiefly by the old masters, and stands in a beautiful park of 700 acres, containing old oaks 24 feet in girth, arches of Constantine, a lake, and a medicinal spring. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £135 with residence. Patron, Lord Scarsdale. The church is ancient and cruciform, has a Norman door, and a low embattled tower, and contains several ancient and splendid monuments of the Curzons. It was restored in 1884-85 by Lord Scarsdale.