WILLINGTON, a parish in the hundred of MORLESTON-and-LITCHURCH,
county of DERBY, 5 miles
(N. E.) from Burton upon Trent, containing 411 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 £4. 17. 3., endowed
with £800 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the Corporation of Etwall and Repton.' The church
is dedicated to St. Michael. The river Trent and the
Grand Trunk canal pass through the parish. The poor
are entitled to send their children for gratuitous instruc-
tion to Findern school, in the parish of Mickleover.