SMISBY, a parish in the hundred of REPTON-and-GRESLEY,
county of DERBY, 2 miles (N. N. W.) from
Ashby de la Zouch, containing 322 inhabitants. The
living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of
Derby, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed
with £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the
Marquis of Hastings.