EDENSOR, a parish in the hundred of HIGH-PEAK,
county of DERBY, 2 miles (E. N. E.) from Bakewell,
containing, with Chatsworth and the hamlet of Pilsley,
752 inhabitants. The living, formerly a vicarage, rated
in the king's books at £4. 13. 4., is now a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and diocese
of Lichfield and Coventry, and in the patronage of
the Duke of Devonshire. The church, dedicated to
St. Peter, contains several monuments of the noble
family of Cavendish. The village is situated entirely
within Chatsworth Park. The Duke of Devonshire
contributes £30 a year iu aid of a school, which
sum, with £5. 12. per annum arising from an enclosure
of waste land, and the interest of £50, the
gift of John Phillips in 1734, is appropriated for the
instruction of sixty children.