HALLAM (WEST), a parish in the hundred of MORLESTON-AND-LITCHURCH, county of DERBY, 8 miles (N.E. by E.) from Derby, containing 706 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £8, and in the patronage of Francis Newdigate, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Wilfrid. The Rev. John Scargill, in 1662, bequeathed £ 540 for the erection and endowment of a free school: the annual income is about £ 174, of which the master receives £60 for teaching fifty-eight children, who are each paid ninepence per week out of the same fund, according to the directions of the testator. There is a mineral spring, the water of which is similar in its qualities to the Harrogate water. A canal has been recently cut along part of the boundary of the parish, where there is a coal wharf in connexion with a neighbouring colliery.