MORTON, a parish in the hundred of SCARSDALE,
county of DERBY, 3 miles (N.) from Alfreton, containing,
with the chapelry of Brackenfield, 502 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Derby,
and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the
king's books at £11. 10., endowed with £200 private
benefaction, and £ 800 royal bounty, and in the alternate
patronage of the Master and Fellows of St. John's
College, Cambridge, and the Turbutt family. The church
is dedicated to the Holy Cross.