KEDLESTON, a parish in the hundred of APPLETREE,
county of DERBY, 4 miles (N. W.) from Derby,
containing 109 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and diocese of
Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at
£3. 19,7., and in the patronage of Lord Scarsdale. The
church, dedicated to All Saints, has a Norman south
door, and contains several ancient monuments of the
Curzon family. The poor of this parish are entitled
to the benefit of the school at Quarndon. Here is an
endowment of £4 per annum, for apprenticing poor
children, the gift of Mr. Baskerville. The noble mansion
of Lord Scarsdale, called Kedleston hall, was erected
about 1765, from a design by Adam; in the park is a
sulphureous spring, with a convenient bath, the waters
of which are considered serviceable in cutaneous and
scorbutic disorders.