DARWENT, a chapelry in the parish of HATHERSAGE,
hundred of HIGH-PEAK, county of DERBY, 10
miles (N.N.W.) from Stony-Middleton, containing 123
inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy with that
of All Saints, Derby, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and
diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed with £400
private benefaction, and £600 royal bounty. The chapel
is dedicated to St. James. There is an endowment
of £5 a year, arising from bequests by Robert Turner,
in 1720, and John Eyre, in 1772, for teaching twelve
poor children.