Cassel's Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1900

Rosliston, pa. and vil., S. Derbys., 5 s. of Burton; ac. 1,197; soil various, overlaying gravel.  The church of St. Mary the virgin is chiefly modern, having been erected in 1819; but it as at an early period a chapelry of Walton, and was referred to in the taxation-roll of 1291.  The tower and spire are of the first half of the 14th cent.  There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.

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