MOSBOROUGH, a township, in the parish of ECKINGTON, hundred of SCARSDALE, Northern Division of the county of DERBY, 8 miles (N. N. E.) from Chesterfield: the population is returned with the parish. Joseph Stones, in 1680, devised a dwelling house, croft and garden for the use of a schoolmaster, also land now producing an annual income of about £18, for the free education of fifteen children.
A Topographical Dictionary of England, Samuel Lewis (1840)
The Mosborough One-Place Study 