ELVASTON, a parish in the hundred of MORLESTON-and-LITCHURCH,
county of DERBY, 5 miles (S.E.by
E.) from Derby, containing 493 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of
Derby, and diocese, of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in
the king's books at £5. 3. 9., endowed with £400 private
benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the Earl of Harrington. The church is dedicated
to St. Bartholomew. In January, 1643, Elvas.-
ton hall, the seat of Lady Stanhope, was plundered by
the parliamentarian troops under Sir John Gell. The
river Derwent runs through this parish. Earl Stanhope
enjoys the inferior title of Baron Stanhope of Elvaston.