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== Parish History  ==
== Parish History  ==


Elmton St Peter is an Ancient parish which also includes Cresswell .<br>  
Elmton St Peter is an Ancient parish which also includes Cresswell and is in the Bolsover district of Derbyshire .<br>  


ELMTON (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Worksop, hundred of Scarsdale, N. division of the county of Derby, 9 miles (E. by N.) from Chesterfield; containing, with the township of Creswell, 433 inhabitants. It comprises about 1200 acres; the surface is level, with some small undulations, and the soil a thin marl resting on limestone. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £5. 1. 3.; net income, £55; patron and impropriator, the Rev. C. H. R. Rodes. The extraordinary arithmetical calculator, Jedediah Buxton, was born at this place in 1707, and in 1772 was buried here.
see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmton-with-Creswell+ Elmton-with Creswell Wikipedia] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creswell_Model_Village+ Creswell Model Village Wikipedia] and A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 164-167. [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50946+ here]<br>
 
From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 164-167. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50946 Date accessed: 16 April 2011.<br>  


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