DUCKMANTON, a parish in the hundred of SCARSDALE,
county of DERBY, 3 miles (E.) from Chesterfield,
containing, with Sutton, 685 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged vicarage annexed to the rectory of Sutton in
the Dale, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and diocese of
Lichfield and Coventry. The church, which was dedicated
to St. Peter and St. Paul, has been demolished.
There is a place of worship for Independents. A charity
school is endowed with £20 per annum, for teaching
twenty, children. Iron-ore and coal are obtained at
works called the Adelphi.