Place:Repton, Derbyshire, England

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NameRepton
Alt namesRapendunsource: Domesday Book (1985) p 70
Rapendunesource: Domesday Book (1985) p 70
TypeVillage
Coordinates52.833°N 1.533°W
Located inDerbyshire, England
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Repton is a village and civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England, located on the edge of the River Trent floodplain, about north of Swadlincote. The population taken at the 2001 Census was 2,707, increasing to 2,867 at the 2011 Census. Repton is close to the county boundary with neighbouring Staffordshire and about northeast of Burton upon Trent.

The village is noted for St Wystan's Church, Repton School and the Anglo-Saxon Repton Abbey and medieval Repton Priory.

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