CARSINGTON, a parish in the hundred of WIRKSWORTH,
county of DERBY, 2$ miles (W. by s.) from
Wirksworth, containing 270 inhabitants. The living is
a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and
diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the-king's
books at £5.1.10., and in the patronage of the Dean
6 Lincoln. -The church, dedicated to St. Margaret,
is a small ancient building, without a steeple, and
scarcely distinguishable from the cliffs that overhang
it. The village is situated in a valley surrounded by
hills,.in which there are quarries of limestone and lead
mines. The Peak Forest railway passes through the
parish. A school for twenty poor children  of this
parish and the adjoining township of Hopton was
founded by Mrs. Temperance Gill; in 1726; it has an
endowment of £60 per annum, arising from land. John
Oldfield, an eminent nonconformist divine, was ejected
from the benefice of this parish, in 1662; 'his son,
Dr. Joshua Oldfield, of some literary celebrity, was
born here, in 1656. Mr. Ellis Farneworth, an- able
translator from the Italian, was presented to the rectory
in 1762. Carsington 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.