MICKLEOVER, a parish in the hundred of MORLESTON-and-LITCHURCH,
county of DERBY, 3 miles
(W. S. W.) from Derby, containing, with the chapelries
of Findern and Littleover, 1373 inhabitants. The living
is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and diocese
of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's
books at £9. 11. 5., and in the patronage of Lord
Scarsdale. The church is dedicated to All Saints.
There are places of worship forWesleyan Methodists
and Unitarians. John Alsop, in 1715, founded a free
school, and endowed it with lands now let for about
£60 per annum. There are also two smaller sums
appropriated to the education of the poor, viz., the interest
of £200 bequeathed by Robert Newton, in 1784,
and £ 1 a year by John Erpe.