ALDERWASLEY, a chapelry in that part of the
parish of WIRKSWORTH which is in the hundred of
APPLETREE, county of DERBY, 2 miles (E. by S.) from
Wirksworth, containing 454 inhabitants. The chapel
belongs to F. Hurst, Esq., who appoints his own chaplain.
There are iron-works and furnaces for smelting lead-
£>re in the neighbourhood.