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Alfreton was given a Charter to hold a market in the 13th Century and local legend would suggest that King Alfred gave the town its name.
In King Street there is a unique Lock-Up, built about 1820 from which it is said the only prisoners escaped up the chimney.
Robert Watchorn found fame in North America, he was the most famous of American Commissioners of Immigration between 1905 and 1910 and is remembered at the American Museum of Immigration at Ellis Island in New York Harbour. Robert Watchorn never forgot his early years in Alfreton, and used some of his wealth to rebuild the area of the town in which he lived.
Amongst his buildings are a fine church, schoolrooms, houses and the Abraham Lincoln Library. He also laid out extensive parklands.
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