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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Ridgeway like this:
RIDGEWAY, a chapelry in Eckington parish, Derby; 3¾ miles N W of Eckington r. station. It was constituted in 1841; and it has a post-office under Chesterfield. Rated property, £4, 800. Pop. in 1861, 1, 745. Houses, 354. The property is subdivided. Coal is worked; and scythes, sickles, knife-blades, and riddles are made. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £300. Patron, the Rector of Eckington. The church was built in 1840, at a cost of £2,000.
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Eckington | 1 | 2 |
Hackenthorpe | 0 | 2 |
Troway | 0 | 1 |
Mosborough | 0 | 2 |
Beighton | 0 | 2 |
Gleadless | 0 | 2 |
Intake | 0 | 2 |
Woodhouse | 0 | 2 |
Handsworth | 0 | 2 |
Coal Aston | 0 | 3 |
Norton | 0 | 2 |
Unstone | 0 | 2 |
Norton Woodseats | 0 | 1 |
Killamarsh | 0 | 2 |
Norton Lees | 0 | 2 |
Orgreave | 0 | 2 |
Greenhill | 0 | 2 |
Renishaw | 0 | 2 |
New Whittington | 0 | 2 |
Dronfield | 0 | 2 |