WILNE (GREAT), a parish in the hundred of MORLESTON-and-LITCHURCH,
county of DERBY, 7 miles (s.
E.) from Derby, containing, with the township of Shardlow,
and the inmates of a large poor-house belonging to
several townships, 993 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the prebendal
court of Sawley, endowed with £1600 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of the Perpetual
Curate of Sawley. The church is dedicated to St. Chad.