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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Matlock Bridge like this:
MATLOCK-BRIDGE, a hamlet in Matlock parish, Derbyshire; on the river Derwent, and on the Manchester and Buxton railway, ½ a mile NW of Matlock village. It has a station on the railway, a post office under Matlock-Bath, and a Wesleyan chapel. A company was formed in 1866 to erect at it a hotel, a market-hall, and assembly-room; and the market-hall was opened in 1868.
This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Matlock Bridge by doing a full-text search here.
Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.
This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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Matlock | 26 | 3 |
Matlock Bank | 0 | 1 |
Snitterton | 0 | 2 |
Tansley | 0 | 2 |
South Darley | 0 | 2 |
Bonsall | 0 | 2 |
Wensley | 0 | 2 |
Darley | 0 | 2 |
Lea | 0 | 2 |
Cromford | 0 | 4 |
North Darley | 0 | 2 |
Dethick | 0 | 2 |
Lea Bridge | 0 | 1 |
Middleton By Wirksworth | 0 | 2 |
Holloway | 0 | 2 |
Ashover | 0 | 2 |
Ible | 0 | 2 |
Birchover | 0 | 2 |
Wirksworth | 9 | 3 |
Griffe Grange | 0 | 2 |