SMALLEY, a chapelry in the parish of MORLEY,
hundred of MORLESTON-and-LITCHURCH, county of
DERBY, 7 miles (N. E.) from Derby, containing 727 inhabitants.
The chapel is dedicated to St. John the
Baptist. John and Samuel Richardson, in 1712, conveyed
certain property to trustees, for the erection and:
support of a school for twelve poor boys, each to receive
eightpence per week; the present annual income
is £ 88, and twenty-eight boys are educated, viz., fourteen
from this chapelry, eight from Heanor, and six.
from Horsely-Woodhouse. There are extensive collieries
in the neighbourhood.