HOGNASTON, a parish in the hundred of WIRKSWORTH, county of DERBY, 5 miles (S."W. by W.) from Wirksworth, containing 292 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual cxtracy, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed with £800 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Dean of Lincoln. The church has a Norman south door. Limestone abounds in the parish. An hospital for six poor men was founded and liberally endowed, in 1583, by Anthony Gell. There is also a small endowment for a school, the gift of Temperance Gell, in 1729.