CHESTER (LITTLE), a township in that part of the parish of ST-ALKMUND-DERBY, which is without the limits of the borough, in the hundred of MORLESTON-and-LITCHURCH, county of DERBY, containing 177 inhabitants. It is situated on the eastern bank of the Derwent, about l.mile (N. N. E.) from the town, and occupies the site of the Roman station Derventio, the most important in the county: it was of an oblong form, comprising nearly six. acres. The wall that surrounded it was traced by Dr. Stukeley in 1721 j but subsequent cultivation has removed every vestige. It stood on the line of the Iknield-street, which here crossed the river; and is noticed in Domesday7book under the name Cestre, being therein described as parcel of the ancient demesne of the crown. Numerous foundations, coins of gold, silver, and copper, and other remains of Roman antiquity, have been discovered.