Weston Underwood, Derbyshire

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Weston Underwood
Derbyshire

Weston Underwood
Location
Grid reference: SK292425
Location: 52°58’46"N, 1°33’58"W
Data
Population: 374  (2011)
Post town: Ashbourne
Postcode: DE6
Dialling code: 01335
Local Government
Council: Amber Valley
Parliamentary
constituency:
Derbyshire Dales

Weston Underwood is a small, agricultural village in Derbyshire. The population of the civil prish (which includes along with Weston Underwood, Muggington and Muggington Lane End) as taken at the 2011 Census was 374.

The village is just over five miles from Derby. Nearby places are Mugginton, Kedleston Hall and Carsington Water.

History

Weston Underwood appears in the Domesday Book. It notes:

"In Weston Underwood, Wolfsige had 1 carucate of land to the geld. There is land for one plough. There is now one ploughs in demesne and six villeins and six bordars have two ploughs. There are six acres of pasture and woodland pasture a league long and half a league broad. Value was 40 shillings now twenty shillings. Gulbert holds it for Ralph de Buron."

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