Hazelwood, Derbyshire

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St John the Evangelist church and graveyard, Hazelwood
Hazelwood is located in Derbyshire
 Hazelwood shown within Derbyshire
OS grid reference SK328460
District Amber Valley
Shire county Derbyshire
Region East Midlands
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town BELPER
Postcode district DE56
Police Derbyshire
Fire Derbyshire
Ambulance East Midlands
EU Parliament East Midlands
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Coordinates: 53°00′40″N 1°30′43″W﻿ / ﻿53.011°N 1.512°W﻿ / 53.011; -1.512

Hazelwood (until recently spelt Hazlewood) is a village in Derbyshire at the lower end of the Pennines around five miles north of Derby, England.[1] Ordnance Survey maps in the nineteenth century spelt it Hazzlewood.

It is located on the western edge of Chevin Hill. Nearby is a place called Firestone where beacon fires were lit to rouse the country when peril of invasion or other dangers were imminent. Firestone is now the site of a reservoir owned by the Severn Trent water board.

Formerly it was part of the parish and manor of nearby Duffield. In 1817 it was recorded that "Hazlewood is parcel of the manor of Duffield. The Blount family had for many years an estate there, called a manor in records of the reign of Edward III. and that of Edward IV."[2]

In the days before Hazelwood had its own cemetery, burials were conducted at St.Alkmunds in Duffield. It is said that funeral parties would stop for refreshment at the New Inn on Hazlewood Road (now a private house) and would leave the coffin resting on the flat stone coping of the garden wall.[3]

Hazelwood railway station was about half a mile from St. John's Church down Hob Hill, on the Wirksworth Branch of the Midland Railway.

Hazelwood used to have a post office, now shut, which was the house by the post office. The extension by the drive was the actual shop, which was owned in its final years by Ivy and Francis Whittaker.[citation needed]

Edith Maude Hull born in Hampstead, married locally born Percy Winstanley Hull and moved to "The Knowle" where she wrote a number of books, including The Sheik, which led to the film of the same name starring Rudolf Valentino.


  1. ^ Hazelwood vs Hazlewood: Indexes for the years 1000AD -1999AD include 64 records for the spelling 'hazlewood' and 18 records for the spelling 'hazelwood'. http://www.theoriginalrecord.com/
  2. ^ 'Parishes: Doveridge - Duffield', Magna Britannia: volume 5: Derbyshire (1817), pp. 129-142. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50727. Date accessed: 27 August 2008.
  3. ^ Bland, J., (1922), Old Duffield, Village, Church and Castle: with Some Personal Reminiscences Derby: Harpur and Sons

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