DETHWICK-LEA, a chapelry in that part of the
parish of ASHOVER which is in the hundred of WIRKSWORTH,
county of DERBY, 2 miles (S. E. byE.) from
Matlock, containing, with the hamlet of Hollo way, 492
inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy with the
rectory of Ashover, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and
diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed with £400
private benefaction, and £1000 royal bounty. The
chapel, a small edifice with a handsome and lofty tower,
was built in 1530, by Mr. Babington. Dethwick 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.