SUDBURY, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"SUDBURY, a parish in the hundred of Appletree, county Derby, 13 miles from Derby, its post town, and 5 S.E. of Uttoxeter. It is a station on the North Staffordshire railway. The village is on the river Dove, near Sudbury Coppice. Sudbury was held by the Montgomeries till Henry VIII.'s time, and is now the property of Lord Vernon. It is a petty sessions town. The Hoar Cross Hounds meet in the vicinity. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Lichfield, value £747. The church is dedicated to All Saints.

There are free and National schools for both sexes. The parochial charities produce about £27 per annum. The principal residence is Sudbury Hall, situated in a richly-wooded park, through which is a carriage drive two miles long. The Hall was rebuilt about 1620, and was the residence of the late Dowager Queen Adelaide. If contains portraits of Thomas Cromwell, Strafford, and others. Lord Vernon is lord of the manor."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin HINSON ©2003]