RENISHAW, a township in the parish of ECKINGTON,
hundred of SCARSDALE, county of DERBY, 75
miles (N. E.) from Chesterfield, containing 551 inhabit-
ants, who are principally employed in the extensive ironfoundry
established on the Chesterfield canal, which
passes through the township. Thomas Camm, in 1702,
bequeathed land and premises yielding about £46 per
annum, which sum, and two subsequent bequests by
Lady Frecheville and Peter Cadman, amounting to £ 10
a year, are applied for the instruction of about twentyseven
children.