Located just over two miles from Wirksworth, Alderwasley is a small scattered township that was in the hundred of Appletree. For pub licencing affairs, Alderwasley was in the petty sessional division of Belper but in the parish and county court district of Wirksworth. In the late Victorian period the main landowner and lord of the manor was Lieutenant-Colonel Albert Frederic Hurt who resided at Alderwasley Hall, a large property that has served as a residential school in recent years. Built in the Early English style, the church was erected near Alderwasley Hall in 1850. A national school was constructed nine years earlier. Although a rural backwater of some charm, there was once considerable industry conducted in the locality, particularly brick, tile and pipe works along with furnaces for smelting lead ore. Pictured here is The Parsonage, an attractive stone cottage occupied in the late Victorian period by Reverend Charles Owen.
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