Turnditch

Human settlement in England

Amber Valley

Derbyshire

Region

East Midlands

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Amber Valley

List of places: UK; England; Derbyshire

53°00′50″N 1°33′50″W / 53.014°N 1.564°W / 53.014; -1.564

Turnditch is a village and civil parish in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 301.^[1] It is around 10 miles (16 km) north of Derby on the A517 road from Belper to Ashbourne.

It is built on both sides of the road halfway up the steep climb out of the Ecclesbourne Valley. Nearer to the brow of the hill is a place known as Cross o' th' Hands.

In Norman times it was within Duffield Frith and part of the manor of Duffield. The Church of All Saints was built in the 13th century as a chapel of ease to Duffield, while a Congregational chapel with a Sunday school was erected in 1818.^[2]^[3]

References

^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
^ Daniel and Samuel Lysons (1817) Magna Britannia: volume 5 Pages 129-142 'Parishes: Doveridge - Duffield', http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50727. Date accessed: 24 October 2007.
^ http://www.andrewspages.dial.pipex.com/dby/kelly/turnditch.htm Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.321