QUARNDON, a parish in the hundred of MORLESTON-and-LITCHURCH,
county of DERBY, 3 miles (N.
N. W.) from Derby, containing 438 inhabitants. The
living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of
Derby, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed
with £200 private benefaction, and £800 royal bounty,
and in the patronage of Lord Scarsdale. Sir John
Curzon, in 1725, bequeathed an annuity of £20 for the
support of a free school for twenty poor children of
Kedleston, Quarndon, Weston, and Ravensdale park.
Near this place is a chalybeate spring, which was considerably
resorted to upwards of a century ago, and is
still visited in the summer, the water being highly
beneficial in cases of debility.