LINTON, a township in the parish of CHURCHGRESLEY,
hundred of REPTON-and-GRESLEY, county of
DERBY, 5 miles (S. S. E.) from Burton upon Trent,
containing 241 inhabitants. There is a place of worship
for Wesleyan Methodists. Linton is in the honour
of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction
of a court of pleas held at Tutbury every Tuesday,
for the recovery of debts under 40s.