South Wingfield
Derbyshire, England
The church in South Wingfield
From www.genuki.org: "SOUTH WINGFIELD is a parish, in the hundred of
Scarsdale, two miles E. by N. from Crich, and the like distance west from
Alfreton The village, picturesque and neat, is chiefly celebrated for the
interesting ruins of its ancient manor house, of which mention is more
particularly made in the account of Alfreton (page 10) The places of worship
are, the parish church, dedicated to All Saints, and a chapel for Wesleyan
methodists. The living of Wingfield is a discharged vicarage in patronage
of the Duke of Devonshire. The parish (which has no dependent township)
contained, by the returns made to government in the year 1831, 1,091 inhabitants."