Description
Snelston, a parish, with a village, in Derbyshire, on the river Dove, 1 1/4 mile from Clifton station on the North Staffordshire railway, and 3 1/4 SW of Ashbourne. It has a post office under Ashbourne; money order and telegraph office, Mayfield. Acreage, 2175; population, 287. The manor, with Snelstone Hall, belongs to the Harrison family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £324 with residence. The church is Later English, and was almost entirely rebuilt in 1825. It consists of chancel, nave, aisle, and embattled tower.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
