SAWLEY, a parish in the hundred of MORLESTON-and-LITCHURCH,
county of DERBY, comprising the
chapelries of Breason and Wilne, the townships of Long
Eaton, Risley, and Sawley, and the liberties of Draycott
and Hopwell, and containing 3643 inhabitants, of which
number, 958 are in the township of Sawley, 4 miles (N.
byW.) from Kegworth. The living is a perpetual curacy,
in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Prebendary
of Sawley in the Cathedral Church of Lichfield,
endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £2000 parliamentary
grant. The church is dedicated to All Saints.
There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
The rivers Trent, Derwent, and Erewash run through the
parish, which is also intersected by the Derby and the
Erewash canals. Sawley had anciently a market and a
fair; the market, having fallen into disuse, was revived
about 1760, and was again discontinued before 1770;
the market-house still remains. Harrington bridge,
across the Trent, was completed in 1790. A National
school is partly supported by a trifling sum bequeathed
by Francis Hacker, in 1676.