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Peter Chamberlain
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the village/town/city /country game !!!
replied on: 5/3/2007 6:53:55 AM

LEA, (or Dethick) a chapelry in the parish of Ashover, hundred of Wirksworth, in the county of Derby, 2 miles S.E. of Matlock. It is situated on the Cromford canal, and contains the hamlet of Holloway. The village is built in a valley, and contains a large mill for spinning worsted and cotton. One of the earliest reverberating furnaces for smelting lead-ore was established here. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £93, in the patronage of T. Hallows, Esq., who is lord of the manor. The church, dedicated to St. John, is a small structure built about 1512, and has a handsome and lofty tower."

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