Alfreton, a market-town of Derbyshire, 14 miles NNE. of Derby by rail. It has manufactures of hats, stockings, and brown earthenware. There are collieries and iron-works in the vicinity. The town is irregularly built, and contains many very old houses, but has of late rapidly increased. Pop. of parish (1861) 11,549; (1891) 15,355.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 154
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