Foston and Scropton
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 St. Paul's parish church |
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| Population | 728 (2001 census)[1] |
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| OS grid reference | SK1930 |
| Civil parish | Foston and Scropton |
| District | South Derbyshire |
| Shire county | Derbyshire |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Derby |
| Postcode district | DE65 |
| Dialling code | 01283 |
| Police | Derbyshire |
| Fire | Derbyshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| EU Parliament | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | South Derbyshire |
| Website | Foston and Scropton Parish Council |
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Coordinates: 52°52′08″N 1°42′50″W / 52.869°N 1.714°W
Foston and Scropton is a civil parish in the Dove valley in South Derbyshire. It includes the village of Scropton and hamlet of Foston.
The Domesday book records that in 1086 Henry de Ferrers held a manor here.[2]
The Church of England parish church of Saint Paul, Scropton contains late 15th and early 16th century monuments.[3] However, the church was rebuilt in 1855–56 under the direction of the Gothic Revival architect Benjamin Ferrey.[3] The village of Scropton has no shop or pub put it does have a large house called the old school house.
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- ↑ "Area selected: South Derbyshire (Non-Metropolitan District)". Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 29 September 2011.
- ↑ Domesday Book
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Pevsner & Williamson, 1978, page 315
Sources
- Pevsner, Nikolaus; Williamson, Elizabeth (1978) [1953]. Derbyshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 315. ISBN 0-14-071008-6.