WESTON-upon-TRENT, a parish in the hundred
of MORLESTON-and-LITCHURCH, county of DERBY, 7
miles (S. E. by S.) from Derby, containing 397 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of
Derby, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated
in the king's books at £11. 16. 3., and in the patronage
of Sir Robert Wilmot, Bart. The church is dedicated
to St. Mary. The Trent and Mersey canal passes
through the parish, which is in the honour of Tutbury,
duchy of Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction of a
court of pleas held at Tutbury every third Tuesday, for
the recovery of debts under 40s.