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| | The Andrews Pages : Tissington, Derbyshire : Kelly's Directory, 1891 |
 | | TISSINGTON, anciently "TlSCINCTUNA," is a parish and village, 4 miles north from Ashborne, the nearest station, on the Churnet Valley section of the North Staffordshire railway, in the Western division of the county, Wirksworth hundred, Ashborne union, petty sessional division and county court district, rural deanery of Ashborne, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. |
 | | Tissington Hall, a fine old Elizabethan mansion close to the village and approached by an avenue more than half a mile in length, is the seat of Sir William Fitzherbert bart. |
 | | Tissington was the scene of a severe contest between the Royalist and Parliamentary forces during the Civil Wars. |
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