Foston and Scropton

Foston and Scropton is a civil parish in the Dove valley in South Derbyshire.

It includes the village of Scropton and hamlet of Foston.

[2] The Domesday book records that in 1086 Henry de Ferrers held a manor here.

[4] However, the church was rebuilt in 1855–56 under the direction of the Gothic Revival architect Benjamin Ferrey.

Scropton's Cranberry Foods was bought by Faccenda Group in May 2012; the site is the second largest turkey processor in the UK after Bernard Matthews Ltd. Foston is home to JCB Power Systems, and a large dairy of Dairy Crest.