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Lullington, Derbyshire

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Population
  
121 (2011)

Region
  
East Midlands

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Shire county
  
Derbyshire

Dialling code
  
01827

OS grid reference
  
SK249131

Country
  
England

Post town
  
SWADLINCOTE

District
  
South Derbyshire

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Lullington is a village and parish in the district of South Derbyshire, England. The population of the civil pariah at the 2011 Census was 121. It has an All Saints' Church, a village hall and a pub, the Colvile Arms (Charles Robert Colvile was living at Lullington Hall in the 1850s). In 1850, it had a school that was designed to take fifty children.

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Map of Lullington, Swadlincote, UK

Together with neighbouring Netherseal, it is the southernmost village in Derbyshire.

History

Lullington is mentioned in the Domesday Book where it is then spelt Lullitune. The book says under the title of “The lands of the King's Thegns

In Lullington Auti had five carucates of land to the geld. There is land for five ploughs. There now Edward has of the king 21 villans and three bordars having four ploughs. There is a priest and one mill rendering 6s 8d (33p) and twelve acres of meadow. TRE as now worth four pounds.“

References

Lullington, Derbyshire Wikipedia