[1] It is very rural as the land is light and stony with a clay subsoil, which is suitable for dairy pasture.

[3] The manor of Edlaston was given to the prior and convent of Tutbury by Earl Ferrers, son of the founder.

After the Reformation it was granted by Henry VIII in 1548 to William Paget, who a year afterwards sold it to Sir Edward Aston.

[6][7] Harrison and Sir Peter Walker of the Walker-Okeover baronets from Osmaston manor, were main landowners by the very end of the 19th century.

[7] The church of St. James has a chancel, nave, south porch and a square wooden turret which has bells.