CAULK, a parish in the hundred of REPTON and
GRESLEY, county of DERBY, 4 miles (N. by E.) from
Ashby de la Zouch, containing 63 inhabitants. The
living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of
Derby, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, and in
the patronage of Sir George Crewe, Bar£. The church
is dedicated to St. Giles. There are some lead mines in
the parish. A convent of Augustine friars, in honour
6 St. Mary and St. Giles, was founded here before'
1161, and afterwards removed to Repindonj the remains
still exist, having been converted into a mansion,
called the Old Abbey. The poor inhabitants are eligible
to the hospital at Ticknall, founded by Charles
Harpur, Esq., in 1770.