TWYFORD, a chapelry in that part of the parish of BARROW which is in the hundred of APPLETREE, county of DERBY, 5 miles (S. S. W.) from Derby, containing, with the township of Stenson, 235 inhabitants. The chapel is dedicated to St. Andrew. The Trent and Mersey canal passes through the parish. John'Harpur and others, in 1696, bequeathed a rent-charge of £15, to be applied for teaching and apprenticing poor children, or towards then support, at the University.