Rosliston

Infobox UK place
country = England
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static_image_caption=The Co-op Rosliston Convenience Store.Rosliston has a shop unlike many surrounding villagesImage from Wikimedia Commons June 2007] ".
latitude = 52.748
longitude = -1.642
map_type = Derbyshire
official_name = Rosliston
population =
shire_district = South Derbyshire

shire_county = Derbyshire
region = East Midlands
constituency_westminster =
post_town = SWADLINCOTE
postcode_district = DE12
postcode_area = DE
dial_code =
os_grid_reference = SK242167

Rosliston is a small village in South Derbyshire, England close to the county boundaries of Leicestershire and Staffordshire.

It is within the The National Forest and just outside the village is the Rosliston Forestry Centre. The two village pubs are called "The Bulls Head " and "The Plough Inn". In the Domesday Book the manor was called "Redlauseton" [ [http://www.derbyshireuk.net/rosliston.html Derbyshire UK site] ] when it belonged to William the Conqueror [William owned a modest number of manors in Derbyshire including Bakewell, Weston-on-Trent and Walton-on-Trent] and included a church and a mill [ [http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/derbyshire2.html Domesday Book Online] ] .

Features

Rosliston is about convert|1|mi|abbr=on long and convert|1/2|mi|km|abbr=on wide. The main features are St. Mary's Church, Rosliston Forestry Centre, the two pubs (The Bull's Head and The Plough), Rosliston Primary School and The Co-Op.

Notable residents

* Ann Moore (nee Pegg) - the fasting woman of Tutbury was born here in 1761 Ann Moore in the Dictionary of National Biography now in the public domain]

*The Reverend John Vallancy (1843-1906) was vicar of Rosliston for 16 years. He was aggressive towards his parishioners, sometimes threatening them with a stick. On one occasion he produced a revolver and made "ominous overtones". After villagers made an effigy of him, which was hung outside the vicarage and burnt, he was banished from the parish for 18 months by his Bishop [Sutton, D. 1998, "Rosliston Remembered," Beehive Publications, Rosliston. Page 37. ISBN 0953432505] .

References

External links

* [http://www.roslistonforestrycentre.co.uk/ Forestry Centre]

See also

* List of places in Derbyshire