BEIGHTON, a parish in the hundred of SCARSDALE, county of DERBY, 7 miles (B. S. E.) from Sheffield, containing 856 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £6. 11. 10., endowed with £10 per annum private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Earl Manvers. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. In 1666, William Jessop bequeathed land, producing about £ 14 per annum, for apprenticing poor children of this parish, and other charitable purposes. A school for the instruction of ten children hag an endowment of about £5 per annum.