HARTSHORN, a parish in the hundred of REPTON-and-GRESLEY,
county of DERBY, 3 miles (N.W. by N.)
from Ashby de la Zouch, containing 870 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Derby,
and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the
king's books at £3. 2. 1., and in the patronage of the
Earl of Chesterfield. The church, which is dedicated
to St. Peter,is in the early style of English architecture.
There is1 a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
This .parish 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. A school was endowed with lands
and tenements by the Rev. William Dethick, in 1624;
the annual income is £65. Near the village is a
manufactory for screws, and there are mines of coal
and iron-stone in the parish.