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| Pinxton St Helena is an Ancient Parish.<br> | | Pinxton St Helena is an Ancient Parish.<br> |
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| PINXTON (St. Helena), a parish, in the union of Mansfield, hundred of Scarsdale, N. division of the county of Derby, 3 miles (E. by S.) from Alfreton; containing 889 inhabitants. The parish comprises by measurement 1260 acres, and is situated on the southeast border of Derbyshire. It is intersected by the Erewash canal, and the Cromford branch canal terminates at Pinxton, whence a railway extends to Mansfield, passing through a country abounding with minerals, and in which means of transport were previously much wanted. In the neighbourhood of the wharfs has arisen a considerable village called New Pinxton. Some coalmines are worked. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £6. 0. 10., and in the gift of D'Ewes Coke, Esq.: the tithes have been commuted for £228, and the glebe comprises about 40 acres. The church, situated at some distance from the village, is a neat edifice, with a tower of ancient date on one side of the chancel: the nave and chancel were built about a century ago. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans; also a school partly supported by D'Ewes Coke, Esq.
| | See also: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 571-573. [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51214+ here]<br> |
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| From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 571-573. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51214 Date accessed: 18 April 2011.<br>
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| == Resources == | | == Resources == |