A description from Pigot's 1835
Directory
RIDDINGS is a chapelry, in the parish of Alfreton, about 3 miles S. from that
town. The new line of road from Manchester to Nottingham, and a branch of the
Cromford canal, connected with Mansfield by a rail-road passes through this
place.
In the immediate neighbourhood are extensive iron-works, employing many of the
inhabitants, of whom some are also employed in the adjacent mines, forges
&c. at Codnor Park. These several establishments have been the means of
greatly increasing the number of residents around here, for whose accommodation
a new chapel under the establishment has been erected; the expense of which was
defrayed partly by the church commissioners, and partly by subscriptions; the
living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of W.P. Morewood, Esq. There are
besides, places of worship for baptists, independents and Wesleyan methodists.
The right to hold a market, has been granted to this chapelry within these few
years. The population returns are made up with Alfreton parish.