Description
Tissington, a parish, with a village, in Derbyshire, 4 miles N of Ashborne station on the North Stafford railway. It has a post and money order office under Ashborne; telegraph office, Fenny Bentley. Acreage, 2307; population, 309. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor with Tissington Hall belonged to the Savages, passed to the Meynelles, the Clintons, the Corkaynes, and others, and belongs now to the baronet family of Fitzherbert. There is a cotton mill. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £96. The church is Norman, and consists of chancel, nave, N aisle, and low western tower. There is a free endowed school.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
