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  official Name Weston Underwood
  map Type Derbyshire
  latitude 5287
  longitude -1560
  civil Parish Weston Underwood
  population ~
  shire District Amber Valley
  shire County Derbyshire
  region East Midlands
  constituency Westminster Amber Valley
  post Town
  postcode District DE6
  postcode Area DE
  dial Code 01335
  os Grid Reference SK2942


Weston Underwood is an agricultural village and Civil Parish in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire . . It is just over five miles from Derby. Nearby places are Mugginton , Kedleston Hall and Carsington Water .


HISTORY

Weston Underwood is mentioned in the Domesday Book ''Domesday Book: A Complete Transliteration''. London: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 0-14-143994-7 p.752.
Andrew Williams 1900''.]]

In 1086, the book notes that

"In Weston Underwood, Wolfsige had 1 have two ploughs.Therebare six acres of pasture and woodland pasture a League long and half a league broad. Value was 40 shillings now twenty shillings. Gulbert holds it for Ralph de Buron."



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