ETWALL, a parish in the hundred of APPLETREE,
county of DERBY, comprising the townships of Etwall
and Bearward-Cote, and the hamlet of Burnaston, and
containing 593 inhabitants, of which number, 445 are in
the townships of Etwall and Bearward-Cote, 6 miles
(W. S. W.) from Derby. The living is a vicarage, in th?
archdeaconry of Derby, and diocese of Lichfield and
Coventry, rated in the king's books at £ 8, and in the
patronage of the Rev. Mr. Cokburne. The church is
dedicated to St. Helen. In 1566, Sir John Port, Knt.,
devised lands for the foundation and endowment of six.
almshouse at this place, and a grammar school at
Repton, By charter, in the nineteenth year of James I.
this establishment was incorporated, and special
governors appointed: there are at present fifteen persons
in the almshouse; the income of the estate is about
462700.