All About Higham

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Historical Description of Higham

...A village in Shirland parish, Derbyshire, on Icknield Street, 2 1/2 miles NNW of Alfreton, and half a mile from Stretton station on the M.R. It is an ancient place, was once a market-town, has still a market cross in the centre-of the market-place, a Free Methodist chapel, and a post and telegraph office under Alfreton; money order office, Shirland. A cattle fair is held on the first Wednesday after 1 Jan...


Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5