DRAKELOW, a township in the parish of CHURCHGRESLEY,
hundred of REPTON-AND-GRESLEY, county
of DERBY, 3 miles (S. S. "W.) from Burton upon Trent,
containing 84 inhabitants. It is in the honour of Tutbury,
duchy of Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction 6
a court of pleas held at Tutbury every third Tuesday,
for the recovery of debts under 40s. Here is one of
the dep6ts on the line of the Chesterfield and Trent canal,
which at this place passes through a tunnel two hundred
and fifty yards long.