ALSOP-le-DALE, a chapelry in that part of the
parish of ASHBOURN which is in the hundred of
WIRKSWORTH, county of DERBY, 5 miles (N. by W.)
from Ashbourn. The population is returned with the
township of Eaton. The living is a perpetual curacy,
in the archdeaconry of Derby, and diocese of Lichfield
and Coventry, and in the patronage of the inhabitant
freeholders. The chapel, dedicated to St. Michael, is
of Norman architecture, with many modern alterations.
Alsop is in the honour of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster,
and within the jurisdiction of a court of pleas held at
Tutbury every third Tuesday, for the recovery of debts
under 40s.