ALVASTON, a chapelry in that part of the parish
of ST-MICHAEL'S, DERBY, which is in the hundred of
MORLESTON-and-LITCHURCH, county of DERBY, 3
miles (S. B. by E.) from Derby, containing 399 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to that
of Boulton, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and diocese
of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed with £400 royal
bounty. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
A Sunday school is supported chiefly from
the rental of property left by sundry persons for charitable
purposes. The river Derwent and the Derby
canal pass through the parish.