ATLOW, a chapelry in that part of the parish of
BRADBORNE which is in the hundred of APPLETREE,
county of DERBY, 5 miles (E. N. E.) from Ashbourn,
containing 197 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and diocese of
Lichfield and Coventry, endowed with £500 private benefaction,
and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of H. F. Oakover, Esq. The church is a mean dilapidated
structure, situated in the middle of a field.
Near the village is a high hill, called " Magger's Bush,"
which affords an extensive prospect.