DORE, a chapelry in the parish of DRONFIELD,
hundred of SCARSDALE, county of DERBY, 5 miles (N.W.
by W.) from Dronfield, containing 476 inhabitants. The
living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of
Derby, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed
with £400 private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and
£800 parliamentary grant. Earl Fitzwilliam was patron
in 1807. A new chapel has been erected upon a
more convenient site than that of the ancient one. The
Rev. Robert Turie, in 1720, gave £40 towards endowing
a school, in aid of which, the Duke of Devonshire, and
other benefactors, have, by various bequests and donations,
raised the income to £37. 18. per annum, this
sum being applied to the education of thirty children, in
a school-room recently erected by subscription.