Hartshorne - Trade Directory Descriptions

Hartshorne - Trade Directory Descriptions Hartshorne Trade Directory Descriptions

Woolley c.1712 Glover 1829 Pigot 1835 Bagshaw 1846 Lewis 1848 Slater 1850 White 1857 Harrison 1860 Wright 1874 Kelly 1881 Kelly 1887 Kelly 1895 Bulmer 1895 Kelly 1912 Kelly 1932

HARTSHORN, Upper and Lower, make together a large village, a church with a square steeple in the upper town. It's a pretty good benefice, a Rectory valued in the King's Books at £3 2s 1d. The Lords of NEWHALL were, but the Earl of CHESTERFIELD is now, patron, having purchased their concerns here. It lies two miles south-east from Repton and the same north-west from Ashby de la Zouch.
It was called in Doomsday Book 'Heortshorn' and was part of Henry de FERRER's lands, held by Aluric. In 11 Edward III [1337], John de SPOONDON gave to the Abbey of Leicester a good farm here.
It is good middling land, both pasture and arable, watered with many springs of good water, which raises two or three little brooks in its limits. It has commons of a large extent all round about the lordship, in which are quarries of freestone, limestone and coal - the last but indifferent.
In Henry VIII's days John IRELAND held lands here, which he left to Mary and Joane, the Upper Hall under William ABBOTT and the Nether Hall under the Earl of SHREWSBURY. The Knights of St John of Jerusalem had an estate here, given by the FERRERS, Earls of DERBY. After, the COMPETITORS were lords and held a good estate here, which is now most Mr CANTRELL's, who has a good brick and stone house here called the Upper Hall. The DETHICKS, etc, is lords of Newhall and patrons of this Rectory, who had a good estate here. Now the Earl of CHESTERFIELD has it. One of the family of DETHICKS who was Rector here, lies buried under a pretty handsome monument in the chancel, built of freestone here, to which he left about £10 per annum. The trustees are the lords of Newhall, the parsons and churchwardens for the time being.
1 Elizabeth [1558/9], Anthony ABEL died and left his estate here to his son Edward. 16 ditto [1573/4], Sir Richard HARPUR died and left his estate here to his son John. 40 ditto [1597/8] Edward ABBOTT died and left his son Ralph his estate here. Sir Petre COMPTON married Anne, daughter to the Earl of SHREWSBURY, by whom he had his estate here and, dying 38 Henry VIII [1546/7], left it to his third son Henry COMPTON, Knight of the Bath, who sold it to several, amongst whom the BERKINS had a capital messuage called Newhall, which they sold to Captain Thomas COLSON, from whose son I [William Woolley] bought it with the lands thereto belonging. The Nether Hall is now in posession of Mr William WILKIN. Mr William TAYLOR has a good new brick house and estate here.
There was a forge for iron in the lower town but now demolished.
Within this liberty southward on the very confines of the county towards Leicestershire is a little lordship called Short Hazzels. It belonged to the family of BOYLES ever since Henry VIII [1509-47], but sold out into parcels. The old manor house and part of the land was lately Mr CHARNELL's of Snarson, an ancient family in Leicestershire, but it is now his son-in-law, Mr MUXLEY's. The house in the lane which parts the two counties belongs to Francis HARRISON, the rest to Mr MOULD of Appleby, the author and others. It is taxed at £93.
© 1981 Derbyshire Record Society.
Extracted from: Woolley's History of Derbyshire (c.1712, in Manuscript), edited by Catherine Glover and Philip Riden; published by Derbyshire Record Society, Vol 6, 1981, pp.153-5 (inconsistent spelling as in original) Transcription by Sonia Addis-Smith and reproduced here by kind permission of Philip Riden, co-author and Secretary of the Derbyshire Record Society (DRS).
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HARTSHORN, a village, township and parish in the Hundred of Repton and Gresley. Directory Listing
Extracted from: The Directory of the County of Derby, by Stephen Glover, 1829 (on microfiche publ. by the Derbyshire Family History Society)
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HARTSHORN is a parish (having no dependent township), in the hundred of Repton and Gresley, 4 miles N.W. from Ashby-de-la-Zouch. There are mines of coal and iron-stone in the parish ; the manufacture of wood screws is carried on to a great extent by Messrs. Wood, Smith and Port, and there is a respectable brewery belonging to Messrs. Brunt and Co. The church, which is dedicated to St. Peter, is in the early style of English architecture : the living is a rectory, in the patronage of the Earl of Chesterfield ; the Rev. H.W. Buckley is the present incumbent. Population of the parish, at the last census, 1,204. About a mile S.E. from Hartshorn is the prosperous hamlet of WOODEN BOX, where are many pottery works, in which the inhabitants are almost exclusively employed. Directory Listing
extracted from: Pigot and Co.'s National Commercial Directory of Derbyshire, 1835 (on microfiche publ. by the Derbyshire Family History Society)
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HARTSHORN, parish and considerable village, situate on the Derby and Leicester road, 4 miles N.W. from Ashby de la Zouch, 11 miles S. by W. from Derby, contains 2,800 acres of strong fertile land, 287 houses, and 1,389 inhabitants - of whom 689 were males, and 700 females. Population in 1801, 580, in 1831, 1,204. Rateable value, £4,560. The Earl of Chesterfield is lord of the manor and principal owner. Samuel Biddulph, Hopkins Chamberlain, William Wilder, Philip Brooks, Charles Baker, and James Watts, Esqrs., are also owners. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is a rectory, valued in the King’s books at £3 2s. 1d., now £570. In the patronage of the Earl of Chesterfield and others. The Rev. William Henry Buckley is rector. The church was rebuilt in 1735, except the chancel and tower, at a cost of £1,400, and the seats are all unappropriated and free. The rectory is a handsome mansion, east of the church, and was rebuilt by the present incumbent in 1835. At the enclosure in 1766, 394 acres of land were awarded in lieu of tithes. This manor, Heorteshorne, at Domesday survey belonged to Earl Ferrars. The priory and convent at Repton had lands and a moiety of a park in Hartshorn. In 1504, John Ireland held the manor of Hartshorn Upperhall, under William Abell, and Netherhall under the Earl of Shrewsbury. Sir William Compton died seived of it in 1528. The Comptons were succeeded by the Cantrells. The heiress of Cantrell married the grandfather of William Bailey Cant, Esq., who dying in 1800, bequeathed this manor and other estates to Lord Erskine, (then at the bar), for his able defence of John Horne Tooke and other persons, who were tried for high treason, in 1794. In consequence of the omission of certain legal processes, the intention of the testator was defeated, and Miss Partridge, one of the cousins and co-heiresses of Mr. Cant, carried this manor to John Murcot, Esq. On the borders of Leicestershire was a small manor called Short Hazles, which belonged to the Royles, and was divided into severalties. The learned and eloquent George Stanhope, D.D. dean of Canterbury, was born at Hartshorn, in March, 1661, his father the Rev. Thomas Stanhope being then rector. The Rev. Stebbing Shaw, the historian of Staffordshire, succeeded his father in the rectory of Hartshorn. He died in London in 1803, and was buried at Hartshorn. Coal and iron stone abound here, but are not worked at present, and an extensive screw manufactory, which gave employment to a number of hands, has been discontinued. Nether Hall, a handsome mansion 1¼ mile W. from the village, is the seat of Thomas Worthington, Esq. Old Midway is 1½ miles W. by S.
Wooden Box, a small village partly in Ashby de la Zouch parish, 1½ miles S.S.W. from Hartshorn. Here are several extensive earthenware manufacturers. A petty session for the counties of Derby, Leicester, and Stafford, is held at the Potters’ Arms, every other Tuesday.
CHARITIES. - Rev. William Dethick, in 1624, bequeathed to his executors the sum of £100, or more if need be, to purchase land, tenements or rents, of the yearly value of £7, to be conveyed to the lord or owner of Newhall, in the county of Derby, and the incumbent of the parish church of Hartshorn for the time being, and to two other persons, and their heirs, in trust, to employ the rents to the uses declared in a schedule under his hand. The property of the charity consists of a good house and about 32 acres of land in the parish of Ticknall, let for £50 per annum. These lands were set out to the trustees of the charity about 1776, upon an inclosure in lieu of several small pieces of land dispersed in the open fields ; and the house was rebuilt by the tenant at an expense of £200, towards which he cut a few growing trees on the farm, worth about £25. Two houses, with small gardens, in the High street of Burton-upon-Trent, now let for £15 a year each. In 1813 the school was re-built, under the management of the Rev. Francis Tunnicliffe, the rector, at a cost of nearly £170 ; it is capable of holding 60 scholars ; in order to defray this, the schoolmaster’s salary was limited to £30. The master now receives £50 per annum salary, and £10 for the rent of a house, and £2 12s. is expended in bread to the poor. ?0 children are admitted free, and taught reading, writing, and accounts, and provided by the master with books without any charge.
John Hazard, in 1724, gave a rent charge, then vested in Joseph Toon, for bread to the poor of this parish, paid from a farm called the Brick House, now the property of the Earl of Chesterfield : and £5 4s. is paid as the rent charge, which, with £2 12s.from Dethick’s charity, three shilling’s worth of bread is provided every Sunday, and distributed amongst poor widows.
George Stanhope, D.D., by deed in 1723, gave to five poor householders of this parish, the sum of £20, then in the hands of the rector, and producing annually £1. This money came into the hands of the Rev. Stebbing Shaw the younger, who died in 1802, as well as a balance of £63 10s. due from him on account of Dethick’s charity remains still unpaid, (1826.) The yearly sum of £1 was paid as the interest thereof by the Rev. F. Tunnicliffe, his executor, under the expectation, as he states, that sufficient assets would have been found for the discharge of all his debts. There seems to be no doubt that Mr Tunnicliffe is himself liable to make good so much of the debts due to this and Dethick’s charity, as would have been paid if the assets he received had been applied proportionably towards the payment of all debts of the same degree.
Poor’s Land. - There are two pieces of land, one of which contains 1A. 3R. and the other about 3R., and also a small garden. These premises are supposed to have been ourchased for the benefit of the poor by the contributions of the Countess of Dorset and others, but we could not discover any documents. In the parliamentary returns of 1786, a donation of some land is mentioned, by some person unknown, vested in the churchwardens and overseers, and two benefactions of £5 each, one of which is ascribed to the will of Samuel Coulson, 1705, the other being unknown. The above mentioned premises are let for £4 11s. per annum, which is distributed at Midsummer and Christmas, after divine service, at the church, by the rector and parish officers.
Rev. Francis Gisborne’s Charity, (see Bradley.) - The yearly sum of £5 10s. received on account of this is distributed to the poor by the minister in cloth and flannel. Directory Listing
extracted from: History, Gazetteer and Directory of Derbyshire, by Samuel Bagshaw, 1846 (Collection of C.B. Payne)
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HARTSHORNE (St Peter), a parish, in the union of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, hundred of Repton and Gresley, Southern Division of the county of Derby, 6 miles east by south from Burton-upon-Trent; containing in 1841, 1,389 inhabitants. This manor, called in Domesday Book 'Heortshorne', then belonged to the family of FERRERS. The Priory at Repton afterwards had lands, and a moiety of a park here. The IRELANDS held the manor in 1504; Sir William COMPTON died seised of it in 1528, and it was subsequently possessed by the CANTRELLS, and by the CANTS, an heiress of whom brought it to John MURCOT, Esq, about the close of the last century.
The parish is on the Leicester and Derby road, and comprises 2,700 acres, in about equal portions of arable and pasture, with some woodland : the surface is hilly and undulated; the soil varies, including almost every kind except marl; and the scenery picturesque.
There is a quarry, from which the stone was obtained for the erection of the church and rectory-house ; and at Woodville, until lately called Wooden-Box, a hamlet, part of which is in the parish, are extensive earthenware manufactories, and brick-yards.
The living is a Rectory, valued in the King's Books at £3 2s 1d ; net income, £540 ; patrons, the Earl of CHESTERFIELD, and W. BLAKE, Esq, the latter of whom has the next presentation. The tithes were commuted for land in 1765; the glebe altogether comprises 388 acres. The church is a neat edifice in the Early English style, the body of which was rebuilt in 1835, at a cost of £1,400 : it contains a very handsome monument to Humphrey DETHICK, Esq, by whom was endowed a school for boys. A girls' school is supported by subscription. The Wesleyans also have a place of worship.
extracted from: Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, 7th edition, 1848, Vol 2, pp.428-9 Transcription by kind courtesy of Sonia Addis-Smith
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HARTSHORN village is 3 miles N.N.E. from Church Gresley, and 4. N.W. from Ashby-de-la-Zouch. There are mines of coal and ironstone in the vicinity of the village. The parish of Hartshorn is now included in the new parochial district of Woodville. Directory Listing
extracted from: Slater's Directory of Derbyshire, 1850 (on microfiche publ. by the Derbyshire Family History Society)
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HARTSHORNE, is a large straggling village and parish, pleasantly situated on the Derby and Leicester road, 3½ miles N.W. from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, and 11 miles S. by W. from Derby, it contains with the hamlet of Woodville or Wooden Box 3,500 acres of land principally strong clay, and had in 1851, 294 houses and 1,350 inhabitants, of whom 679 were males and 671 females ; rateable value £5,465 18s. The Earl of Chesterfield is lord of the manor and principal owner. The Rev. Henry Wm. Buckley, the executors of the late Joseph Thompson, Samuel Biddulph, Hugh Brookes, James Watts, and Wm. Wilder, Esqrs., are also owners. The Church, dedicated to St. Peter, is an ancient structure, with tower and five bells, rebuilt in 1735, except the chancel and tower at a cost of £1,400, and the seats are all free and unappropriated. In the Church is an incised slab, representing the figures of a knight, in the armour of the fifteenth century, and his lady. The living is a rectory, valued in the King's book at £3 2s. 1d., now £540, in the patronage of the Earl of Chesterfield and W. Blake, Esq., and incumbency of the Rev. Henry Wm. Buckley, M.A. The rectory is a handsome residence, a little east of the Church, it was rebuilt by the present incumbent in 1835. At the inclosure in 1766, 394 acres of land were awarded in lieu of tithes. This manor, Heorteshorne, at Domesday survey belonged to Earl Ferrars. The priory and convent at Repton had lands and a moiety of a park at Hartshorn. In 1504, John Ireland held the manor of Hartshorn Upperhall, under William Abell, and Netherhall under the Earl of Shrewsbury. Sir William Compton died seized of it in 1528. The Comptons were succeeded by the Cantrells. The heiress of Cantrell married the grandfather of William Bailey Cant, Esq., who, dying in 1800, bequeathed this manor and other estates to Lord Erskine, (then at the bar), for his able defence of John Horne Tooke and other persons, who were tried for high treason in 1794. In consequence of the omission of certain legal processes, the intention of the testator was defeated, and Miss Partridge, one of the cousins and co-heiress of Mr. Cant, carried this manor to John Murcot, Esq. On the borders of Leicestershire was a small manor called Short Hazles, which belonged to the Royles, and was divided into severalties. The learned and eloquent George Stanhope, D.D., Dean of Canterbury, was born at Hartshorn, in March, 1661, his father, the Rev. Thomas Stanhope, being then rector. The Rev. Stebbing Shaw, the historian of Staffordshire, succeeding his father in the rectory of Hartshorn. He died in London in 1802, and was buried at Hartshorn. Coal and iron stone abound here, but are not worked at present. Fire clay is obtained here in large quantities, which is sent to Birmingham and Sheffield ; and an extensive screw manufactory which gave employment to a number of hands has been discontinued, part of which has been converted into a saw mill. Nether Hall, a handsome mansion 1¼ mile W. from the village, is the seat of Mrs. Worthington. Short Hazle Farm, 1 mile S. by W. has been occupied by Mr. Elias Glover's family for upwards of three centuries. The General Baptists, and Wesleyan Methodists have each places of worship here, the former was built in 1845, and the latter about 60 years ago. Here are several male and female sick societies. Old Midway is a small hamlet, partly in Swadlincote township, situated as its name denotes between Burton-on-Trent and Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
CHARITIES. - Rev. Wm. Dethick, in 1624, bequeathed to his executors the sum of £100, or more if need be, to purchase land, tenements or rents, of the yearly value of £7, to be conveyed to the lord or owner of Newhall, in the county of Derby, and the incumbent of the parish church of Hartshorn for the time being, and to two other persons, and their heirs, in trust, to employ the rents to the uses declared in a schedule under his hand. The property of the charity consists of a good house and about 32 acres of land in the parish of Ticknall, let for £50 per annum. These lands were set out to the trustees of the charity about 1776, upon an inclosure in lieu of several small pieces of land dispersed in the open fields ; and the house was rebuilt by the tenant at an expense of £200, towards which he cut a few growing trees on the farm, worth about £25. Two houses, with small gardens, in the High street of Burton-upon-Trent, now let for £15 a year each. In 1813 the school was re-built, under the management of the Rev. Francis Tunnicliffe, the rector, at a cost of nearly £170 ; it is capable of holding 70 scholars ; in order to defray this, the schoolmaster’s salary was limited to £30. The master now receives £60 per annum salary, and £2 12s. is expended in bread to the poor. It is free to all the boys of the parish, and the girls pay a small trifle weekly, and are taught reading, writing, and accounts, and provided with books without any charge.
John Hazard, in 1724, gave a rent charge, then vested in Joseph Toon, for bread to the poor of this parish, paid from a farm called the Brick House, now the property of the Earl of Chesterfield : and £5 4s. is paid as the rent charge, which, with £2 12s.from Dethick’s charity, three shilling’s worth of bread is provided every Sunday, and distributed amongst poor widows.
George Stanhope, D.D., by deed in 1723, gave to five poor householders of this parish, the sum of £20, then in the hands of the rector, and producing annually £1. This money came into the hands of the Rev. Stebbing Shaw the younger, who died in 1802, as well as a balance of £63 10s. due from him on account of Dethick’s charity remains still unpaid, (1826.) The yearly sum of £1 was paid as the interest thereof by the Rev. F. Tunnicliffe, his executor, under the expectation, as he states, that sufficient assets would have been found for the discharge of all his debts. There seems to be no doubt that Mr Tunnicliffe is himself liable to make good so much of the debts due to this and Dethick’s charity, as would have been paid if the assets he received had been applied proportionably towards the payment of all debts of the same degree.
Poor’s Land. - There are two pieces of land, one of which contains 1A. 3R. and the other about 3R., and also a small garden. These premises are supposed to have been ourchased for the benefit of the poor by the contributions of the Countess of Dorset and others, but we could not discover any documents. In the parliamentary returns of 1786, a donation of some land is mentioned, by some person unknown, vested in the churchwardens and overseers, and two benefactions of £5 each, one of which is ascribed to the will of Samuel Coulson, 1705, the other being unknown. The above mentioned premises are let for £4 11s. per annum, which is distributed at Midsummer and Christmas, after divine service, at the church, by the rector and parish officers.
Rev. Francis Gisborne’s Charity, (see Bradley.) - The yearly sum of £5 10s. received on account of this is distributed to the poor by the minister in cloth and flannel. Directory Listing
extracted from: Directory of Derbyshire, by F. White & Co., 1857
see also Woodville Parish Description
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HARTSHORNE, is a large straggling village and parish, pleasantly situated on the Derby and Leicester road, 3½ miles N.W. from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, and 11 miles S. by W. from Derby ; it contains with the hamlet of Woodville or Wooden Box, 1,350 inhabitants. The Earl of Chesterfield is lord of the manor and principal owner. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is an ancient structure, with tower and five bells. The living is a rectory, in the patronage of the Earl of Chesterfield and W. Blake, Esq., and incumbency of the Rev. Henry Wm. Buckley. Fire clay is obtained here in large quantities, which is sent to Birmingham and Sheffield. The General Baptists and Wesleyan Methodists have each places of worship here. Old Midway is a small hamlet, partly situated in Swadlincote township. Directory Listing
extracted from: Harrison, Harrod, and Co.'s Directory and Gazetteer of Derbyshire, 1860 (on microfiche publ. by the Derbyshire Family History Society)
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HARTSHORNE is a parish and village, 4 miles from Ashby 6 (E. by S.) from Burton, in the hundred of Repton and Gresley, county court district and archdeaconry of Derby, and rural deanery of Hartshorne. The parish is situated on the Leicester and Derby road, and comprises some 2845 acres of land. The surface is undulated and includes woodland and other diversified scenery. There is a good quarry the stone from which was used to build the rectory house. At Woodville, formerly called Wooden Box, a hamlet partly in this parish, are extensive earthenware manufactories. The living is a rectory, the income of which is valued at £550 a year, the patrons being the Earl of Chesterfield and Wm. Blake, Esq. The Glebe comprises 388 acres. The church, dedicated to St. Peter is a neat edifice in the early English style. The body was entirely rebuilt in 1834 at a cost of £1400, but the tower and chancel are ancient. In the interior is a handsome monument to M. Dethick, Esq., who endowed a school for boys. There is also a girls' school partially supported by subscription. The Wesleyans and Baptists have each a chapel. The chief owners of the parish are Mr. Hastings, lord of the manor and the Rev. H.W. Buckley. The population of the parish in 1871 was 1632. The feast is on the first Sunday in July.
Wm. Fletcher, sub post master. Letters arrive at 7 a.m. and are dispatched at 6.30 p.m. Nearest Money order and Telegraph office at Woodville, under Burton.
ST. PETER'S CHURCH, Services - Sunday, 11 and 6 summer, 11 and 3 in winter. Sacrament, eight times a year. Revs. H.W. Buckley, (rector,) J.E. Eastwood, (curate). Churchwardens, Messrs. Mellor and Fish. Clerk, Wm. Holmes. Hymns A. and M. Directory Listing
extracted from: C.N. Wright's Directory of South Derbyshire, October 1874 (on microfiche publ. by the Derbyshire Family History Society)
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HARTSHORNE is a village and parish, 4 miles north-east from Gresley station, 6 east-by-south from Burton-upon-Trent, 130½ from London, and 4 north-west from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, in the Southern division of the county, Repton and Gresley hundred, Ashby-de-la-Zouch Union and county court district, rural deanery of Hartshorne, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Lichfield. The church of St. Peter consists of chancel, nave, north aisle and tower at the west end of the aisle, containing 5 bells, the fourth and fifth being of pre-Reformation date, and finely lettered, the rest were cast in 1792 : the old building was probably in the Decorated style, the name was entirely rebuilt in 1835, with other alterations at a cost of £1,400, when cast iron windows were inserted, imitating Perpendicular work, and bears externally some interesting heraldic and other carvings : some of the benches show carving of Elizabeth times : under a round arch in the north wall of the chancel there is a fine altar tomb with alabaster figures of Humphrey Dethick, founder of the school, and his wife, with an anscription dated 1599 and 1611 ; there are other alabaster slabs with worn effigies on the floor, but the inscriptions are almost illegible ; one is dated 1627. The vestry contains a fine old parish chest, seven feet long. The church plate includes an old silver cup and paten dated 1612. The register of marriages dates from the year 1624 and of baptisms and burials from 1666, but there are earlier parchments from 1594, and still in good condition. The living is a rectory, yearly value £540, with residence, in the gift of the Countess of Chesterfield and held by the Rev. Henry William Buckley M.A. of Merton College, Oxford. Charities of money and bread are given weekly to widows and other poor persons. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels ; and an earthenware pottery. The Countess of Chesterfield is lady of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is gravel ; subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats and turnips. The acreage is 2,510 ; rateable value, £6,119 ; The population in 1881 was 1,728.
Parish Clerk, William Holmes.
POST OFFICE. - Mis Rosa Fletcher, receiver. Letters through Burton-upon-Trent received at 6.50 a.m.; dispatched at 6.50 p.m. The nearest telegraph & money order office is at Woodville.
SCHOOLS. -
Endowed, founded c. 1575 by Humphrey Dethick & endowed with £100 yearly ; Stephen Cooke, master
Parochial (girls & infants), Miss Laura Saville, mistress
CARRIER. - George Betteridge, to Derby, tuesday & friday to Burton-upon-Trent, thursday ; to Ashby, saturday Directory Listing
Extracted from: Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire & Rutland, and Derbyshire, 1881 (on microfiche publ. by the Derbyshire Family History Society)
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HARTSHORNE is a village and parish, 4 miles north-east from Gresley station, 6 east-by-south from Burton-upon-Trent, and 4 north-west from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, in the Southern division of the county, Repton and Gresley hundred, Swadlincote petty sessional division, Ashby-de-la-Zouch Union and county court district, rural deanery of Hartshorne, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. The church of St. Peter is a building of grey sandstone, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, west porch and embattled tower at the west end of the aisle, containing 5 bells, the fourth and fifth being of pre-Reformation date, and finely lettered, the rest were cast in 1792 : the old building was probably in the Decorated style, the nave was entirely rebuilt in 1835, with other alterations at a cost of £1,400, when cast iron windows were inserted, imitating Perpendicular tracery : the embattled tower is a fair specimen of Perpendicular work, and bears externally some interesting heraldic and other carvings : some of the benches show carving of Elizabeth times : under a round arch in the north wall of the chancel there is a fine altar tomb with alabaster figures of Humphrey Dethick, founder of the school, and his wife, with an inscription dated 1599 and 1611 ; there are other alabaster slabs with worn effigies on the floor, but the inscriptions are almost illegible ; one is dated 1627. The vestry contains a fine old parish chest, seven feet long : the church plate includes an old silver cup and paten dated 1612 : there are 400 sittings, 300 being free. The register of marriages dates from the year 1624 and of baptisms and burials from 1666, but there are earlier parchments from 1594, and still in good condition. The living is a rectory, gross yearly value £540, including 362 acres of glebe with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Carnarvon, and held since 1833 by the Rev. Henry William Buckley M.A. of Merton College, Oxford. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels ; and an earthenware pottery. Charities of money and bread are given weekly to widows and other poor persons. The Earl of Carnarvon is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is gravel ; subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats and turnips. The acreage is 2,510 ; rateable value, £7,510 ; the population in 1881 was 1,728.
Sexton, Robert Jaques
POST OFFICE. - Mrs. Mary Ann Fletcher, receiver. Letters through Burton-upon-Trent received at 6.50 a.m. ; dispatched at 6.50 p.m. The nearest telegraph & money order office is at Woodville.
CARRIER. - George Betteridge, to Derby, tuesday & friday ; to Burton-upon-Trent, thursday ; to Ashby, saturday
SCHOOLS. -
Endowed, founded c. 1575 by Humphrey Dethick, & endowed with £100 yearly, for 80 boys ; average attendance, 40 boys ; Stephen Cooke, master.
Parochial (girls & infants), for 170 children ; average attendance, 145 ; Miss Sarah Ellen Lowe, mistress. Directory Listing
Extracted from: Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire, 1887 (on microfiche publ. by the Derbyshire Family History Society)
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HARTSHORNE is a village and parish, on the road from Derby to Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 4 miles north-east from Gresley station on the Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Burton branch of the Midland railway, 6 east-by-south from Burton-upon-Trent and 4 north-west from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, in the Southern division of the county, Repton and Gresley hundred, Swadlincote petty sessional division, Ashby-de-la-Zouch union and county court district, rural deanery of Repton, archdeacondry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. The church of St. Peter is a building of grey sandstone, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, west porch and embattled Perpendicular tower at the west end of the aisle, containing 5 bells, the fourth and fifth being of pre-Reformation date, and finely lettered, the rest were cast in 1792 : the nave was entirely rebuilt in 1835, and other alterations made at a cost of £1,400, when cast iron windows were inserted in imitation of Perpendicular tracery : the tower bears externally some interesting heraldic and other carvings, and some of the carved benches are Elizabethan, bearing the dates 1590 and 1616 : there are other alabaster slabs with worn effigies on the floor, but the inscriptions are almost illegible ; one is dated 1627 : the vestry contains a fine old parish chest, seven feet long, and the church plate includes an old silver cup dated 1612 : there are 400 sittings, 300 being free. The register of marriages dates from the year 1624 and of baptisms and burials from 1666, but there are earlier parchments from 1594, and still in good condition. The living is a rectory, gross yearly value £540, including 362 acres of glebe with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Carnarvon, and held since 1893 by the Rev. William Edwin Beaumont M.A. of Downing College, Cambridge. There are Baptist Wesleyan chapels ; and an earthenware pottery. Thomas Truelove Kendrick by will of 1873 left the sum of £1,800, the interest of which is distributed on St. Thomas' day, in sums of 10s. each to the poor widows of the parish, and the remainder in sums of 5s. each to poor persons who have over 4 children. Charities of money and bread are also given weekly to widows and other poor persons. The Earl of Carnarvon is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is gravel ; subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats and turnips. The acreage is 2,900 ; rateable value, £7,644 ; the population in 1891 was 1,878.
Post Office. - Mis Rosa Fletcher, receiver. Letters through Burton-upon-Trent received at 7.30 a.m. ; dispatched at 6.20 p.m. The nearest telegraph & money order office is at Woodville.
Wall Letter Box, opposite Bull's Head, cleared at 6.40 p.m. ; sundays, 9.30 a.m.
Wall Letter Box, Midway, cleared 6.40 p.m. ; sundays 8 p.m.
Hartshorne & Measham Rural District Council meets at the Board Room of the Ashby Guardians on saturday monthly after meeting of the Board.
Clerk, Geo. Farmer, 100 Market street, Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Treasurer, Jas. Lawford, Leicester Banking Co. Leicester
Medical Officer of Health, Roderick Robert Walter Logan, Ashby de la Zouch
Sanitary Inspector, W.T. Leyland, Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Police Station, James Oldfield, supt. & 3 constables
Carrier - George Betteridge, to Derby, tuesday & friday ; to Burton-upon-Trent, thursday ; to Ashby, sat
Schools
National (boys), rebuilt in 1813, for 80 boys ; average attendance, 50 ; Allen Roulston, master
National (girls & infants), for 170 children ; average attendance, 145 ; Miss Elizabeth Jane Potter, mistress Directory Listing
Extracted from: Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire, 1895 (on microfiche publ. by the Derbyshire Family History Society)
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HARTSHORNE
This parish lies on the borders of Leicestershire, and, with Woodville, contains 2,858 acres of land, and 1,878 inhabitants. Rateable value £7,698. The principal landowners are:
- the Earl of CARNARVON, who is also lord of the manor;
- the Rector of the parish in right of his church;
- BRUNT, BUCKNALL & Co. Limited;
- Hugh BROOKES, Esq, Winshall;
- THOMPSON's representatives;
- Executors of T. MANSFIELD;
- Lester BIDDULPH, Esq, Stapenhill;
- Sir V.H. CREWE, Bart;
- and Mr John MELLOR.

Civil Structures
Hartshorne is in the hundred and police district of Repton and Gresley; union and county court district of Ashby-de-la-Zouch; county council electoral division of Repton and Swadlincote, and deanery of Repton. Under the Parish and District Councils Act the parish is divided into two wards, each of which returns one guardian and one rural district councillor, and Hartshorne and Measham form a new rural district which includes the following parishes:- Appleby, Boundary, Calke, Chilcote, Hartshorne, Measham, Oakthorpe and Donisthorpe, Smisby, Streeton-en-le-Field, Ticknall, and Willesley.

Minerals
Coal and iron are said to be abundant, but the former only is worked to a small extent. Large quantities of fire clay are obtained and transported to Birmingham, Sheffield, and other industrial centres.

Manorial History
At the time of the Domesday Survey, there were two manors in Heorteshorne, both of which were held by Aluric, under Henry de FERRERS, but their early descent cannot be accurately traced. In the reign of Henry III (1216-72), two members of a family, styled DE HARTSHORNE, held each half a Knight's fee in the parish. The Abbey of Croxden had lands in Hartshorne, as also had the Priory of Repton, together with a moiety of a park.
The two manors became known from their situations as Upper Hall and Nether Hall. In 1504 John IRELAND held both of them, the former under William ABELL and the latter under the Earl of SHREWSBURY. The next owners were the COMPTONS, who were succeeded by the CANTRELLS. The heiress of CANTRELL married the grandfather of William Bailey CANT, Esq, who, dying in 1800, bequeathed this manor and other estates to Lord ERSKINE (then at the Bar) for his able defence of John Horne TOOKE and other persons, who were tried for high treason in 1794. In consequence of some legal informalities the bequest was invalid, and the manor descended to a cousin and coheiress who married John MURCOT, Esq. The sixth Earl of CHESTERFIELD was the next owner, and on the death of the seventh Earl, unmarried, it passed to his sister and heiress, wife of the Earl of CARNARVON.
Short Hazles was a small manor lying on the borders of Leicestershire, which belonged for several generations to the ROYLES. The name of "Hewch Roull" occurs on one of the pre-Reformation bells in the church tower. He was probably churchwarden when the bell was cast.

Location
The village of Hartshorne is situated on the Derby and Leicester road, three and a half miles NW from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 11 miles south from Derby, and one and a half miles from Woodville station, on the Midland Railway.

St Peter's Church
The church, dedicated to St Peter, is an ancient edifice consisting of chancel, nave, and north aisle, with a tower at the west end of it. The nave was rebuilt in 1835, and other alterations were also effected, at a total cost of 1,400 pounds. The tower is in the Perpendicular style of the 15th century, and contains a peal of five bells and a clock. Two of the former bear Latin inscriptions, and are believed to date from pre-Reformation times. The two arches of the aisle are ancient, but the windows are a modern insertion. The font is of some antiquity, and some old oak benches of the Elizabethan period (1558-1603) remain in the aisle.
Monuments: Under an arch, in the north wall of the chancel, is an altar tomb, on which are the alabaster figures of Humphrey DETHICK, of Newhall, who died in 1599, and Eliza his wife. On the front of the monument are represented their six children, one of whom, William, was afterwards Rector of this parish. From the inscription it appears that his widow took a second husband, Sir Humphrey FERRERS, of Tamworth, Knight, and died in 1611. An incised slab built into the west wall bears the figure of a knight, in the armour of the 15th century, and his lady. Around the margin is a Latin inscription now partially illegible.
The living is a Rectory, valued in the King's Book at 3 pounds 2 shillings and 1 penny, now worth 540 pounds, in the gift of the Earl of CARNARVON, and held by the Rev W.E. BEAUMONT, MA, Downing College, Cambridge. The Rectory House is a substantial stone residence, built in 1835 by the Rev H.W. BUCKLEY, MA, who died 23rd November 1892, having held the Rectory for 59 years. The Rev Stebbing SHAW, junior, editor of the "Topographer", and historian of Staffordshire, succeeded his father in this rectory in 1799, and died in 1802, at the early age of 41.

Schools
The school was founded under the Will of the Rev William DETHICK, dated1624, who bequeathed to his executors the sum of 100 pounds, or more if need be, to purchase lands, tenements, and rents, of the yearly value of 7 pounds. There are about 24 acres of land belonging to the charity, producing 75 pounds yearly. The school was rebuilt in 1813, at a cost of nearly 170 pounds. A separate school for girls and infants, with mistress's house, was erected in 1864.

Chapels
There are now two Nonconformist chapels in the village, belonging to the Wesleyans and General Baptists respectively. The former was erected about a century ago, and the latter in 1845.

Manor Houses
The Manor House, a little distance from the church, bears the date 1677; and the Old Manor House is a quaint half-timber and plaster building, a little SW of the church. Several of the rooms retain their old oak wainscoting.

Old Midway is a small hamlet midway between Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Burton-on-Trent, and partly in Hartshorne parish.

Charities
John HAZARD, in 1724, gave a rent-charge of 5 pounds 4 shillings to the poor, and this, with 2 pounds 12 shillings yearly from the Rev William DETHICK's charity, is distributed in bread amongst poor widows every Sunday, at the church.
Thomas Truelove KENDRICK, by will in 1873, left the sum of 2,000 pounds (reduced by the payment of legacy duty to 1,800 pounds), the interest thereof to be applied yearly on St Thomas's Day to and amongst such of the deserving poor people of the parish of Hartshorne as the trustees should think fit. The trustees are the Wesleyan Minister, the Rector of Hartshorne, Messrs Michael FIELD and George STARTIN, and the Wesleyan Circuit Steward, who distribute the income (56 pounds) in sums of 10 shillings, 6 shillings, and 4 shillings, amongst poor widows.
Charles BRUNT, of Midway house, who died in 1874, left the sum of 200 pounds to Hartshorne, 200 pounds to Woodville, and 200 pounds to Newhall. The money is invested in the two and three-quarter percent Consols, and the dividends are added to a clothing club, and given along with GISBORNE's Charity (5 pounds 10 shillings) at the end of each year in warm clothing.
In addition to the 2 pounds 12 shillings given in bread from DETHICK's Charity, the sum of 6 pounds 10 shillings is distributed in money at Easter by the churchwardens; and the further sum of 6 pounds 17 shillings and 6 pence, rent of two pieces of land belonging to the poor, is distributed by the churchwardens and Overseers [of the poor]. Directory Listing
Extracted from: History, Topography and Directory of Derbyshire, by T. Bulmer and Co, 1895, pp. 752-54 Transcription by kind courtesy of Sonia Addis-Smith
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HARTSHORNE is a village and parish, on the road from Derby to Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 2 miles north-east from Woodville station on the Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Burton branch of the Midland railway, 6 east-by-south from Burton-upon-Trent and 4 north-west from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, in the Southern division of the county, Repton and Gresley hundred, Swadlincote petty sessional division, Ashby-de-la-Zouch union and county court district, rural deanery of Repton, archdeacondry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. A part of this parish was, by Local Government Board Order P 1,311, dated September 30th, 1897, transferred to Woodville. The church of St. Peter is a building of grey sandstone, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, west porch and an embattled Perpendicular tower at the west end of the aisle, containing a clock and 5 bells, the 4th and 5th being of pre-Reformation date, and finely lettered ; the rest were cast in 1792 : the nave was entirely rebuilt in 1835, and other alterations made, at a cost of £1,400, when cast iron windows were inserted in imitation of Perpendicular tracery : the tower bears externally some interesting heraldic and other carvings, and some of the carved benches are Elizabethan, bearing the dates 1590 and 1616 : near the western entrance is a fine altar tomb with alabaster figures to Humphrey Dethick and his wife, with an inscription and the dates 1599 and 1611 : there are other alabaster slabs with worn effigies on the floor, but the inscriptions are almost illegible ; one is dated 1627 : there is a memorial window to the Rev. Henry William Buckley M.A. d. 23rd Nov. 1892 : the vestry contains a fine old parish chest, 7 feet long, and the church plate includes a silver cup dated 1612 : the church was restored in 1902-3, at a cost of £3,000, and affords 350 sittings. The register of marriages dates from the year 1624, and of baptisms and burials from 1666, but there are earlier parchments from 1594, and still in good condition. The living is a rectory, gross yearly value £400, derived from 392 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Carnarvon, and held since 1905 by the Rev. Alexander Reginald Langborne B.A. of Lincoln College, Oxford. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels. The charities amount to £230 annually, chiefly arising from land left in 1599 by Humphrey Dethick. Thomas Truelove Kendrick by will in 1873 left the sum of £1,800, the interest of which is distributed on St. Thomas' day in various sums to the poor of the parish, and to other needy persons. Rev. William Dethick by will in 1624 left the sum of £3,000 and 33 acres of land, part for educational purposes and the remainder to the poor. There are also several smaller charities given to widows and other poor persons in money and bread. The Earl of Caranarvon os lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is marl ; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are oats, wheat and turnips. The area is 2,619 acres of land and 7 of water ; rateable value, £5,249 ; the population in 1901 was 1,375.
Sexton, Aaron Smith.

MIDWAY is a hamlet 1¾ miles south-west and 1 mile from Swadlincote station on the Midland railway.
Goseley is a hamlet in the parish.

Post Office. - Mrs. Rosa Mottram, sub-postmistress. Letters through Burton-upon-Trent received at 7.15 a.m. & 6.25 p.m. ; dispatched at 7.10 a.m. & 6.20 p.m. ; sunday received at 7.15 a.m. & dispatched 9.25 a.m. ; Woodville, 2 miles distant, is the nearest telegraph & money order office.
Post Office, Midway. - Richard Henry Staley, sub-postmaster. Letters through Burton-upon-Trent received at 7.35 a.m. & 1.45 & 6.15 p.m. ; dispatched at 7.40 a.m. & 1.45 & 8.5 p.m. ; sunday, received 8.45 a.m. ; dispatched 8.5 p.m. Swadlincote, 1 mile distant, is the nearest telegraph and money order office.
Wall Letter Box, opposite Bull's Head, cleared at 6.50 a.m. & 6.40 p.m. ; sundays, 9.45 a.m.
Wall Letter Box, Main street, cleared at 7.10 a.m. & 6.40 p.m. ; sundays, 9.40 a.m.

HARTSHORNE & SEALS RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL
The District comprises the Derbyshire parishes in Ashby-de-la-Zouch Union, viz. :- Boundary, Calke, Hartshorne, Nether Seal, Over Seal, Smisby, Ticknall & Woodville. The area is 11,749 acres ; rateable value, Lady Day, 1912, £37,360 ; the population in 1911 was 7,939.
The Council meets at the Board Room of the Ashby Guardians on saturday monthly after meeting of the Board.
Chairman, William Soar
Officials
Clerk, George Farmer, Bath street, Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Treasurer, Geo. Bullen, Leicester Banking Co. Leicester
Medical Officer of Health, Roderic Robert Walter Logan M.R.C.S. Eng. Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Surveyor & Inspector of Nuisances, Norman B. Spence, Smisby, Ashby-de-la-Zouch

PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
Mixed, built in 1642, restored in 1898, at a cost of £600, for 166 children ; average attendance, 135 ; Frank Scholfield, master
Infants', built in 1897 & opened 1898, at a cost of £400, for 113 children ; average attendance, 71 ; Miss Jeannetta Rigby, mistress

Police Station, Joseph Ridd, constable

Carrier. - Mrs. Emma Pickering, to Burton, on thurs. Directory Listing
Extracted from: Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire, 1912 (on microfiche publ. by the Derbyshire Family History Society)
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HARTSHORNE is a village and parish, on the road from Derby to Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 2 miles north-east from Woodville station on the Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Burton branch of the London, Midland and Scottish railway, 6 east-by-south from Burton-upon-Trent and 4 north-west from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, head of a rural district, in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Repton and Gresley, petty sessional division of Swadlincote, county court district of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, rural deanery of Repton, archdeacondry and diocese of Derby. A part of this parish was, by Local Government Board Order P. 1,311, dated September 30th, 1897, transferred to Woodville. The church of St. Peter is a building of grey sandstone, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, west porch and an embattled Perpendicular tower at the west end of the aisle, containing a clock and 5 bells, the 4th and 5th being of pre-Reformation date, and finely lettered ; the rest were cast in 1792 : the nave was entirely rebuilt in 1835, and other alterations made, at a cost of £1,400, when cast iron windows were inserted in imitation of Perpendicular tracery : the tower bears externally some interesting heraldic and other carvings : near the western entrance is a fine altar tomb with alabaster figures to Humphrey Dethick and his wife, with an inscription and the dates 1599 and 1611 : there are other alabaster slabs with worn effigies on the floor, but the inscriptions are almost illegible ; one is dated 1627 : there is a memorial window to the Rev. Henry William Buckley M.A. d. 23rd Nov. 1892 : the vestry contains a fine old parish chest, 7 feet long, and the church plate includes a silver cup dated 1612 : the church was restored in 1902-3, at a cost of £3,000, and affords 350 sittings. The register of marriages dates from the year 1642, and of baptisms and burials from 1666, but there are earlier parchments from 1594, and still in good condition. The living is a rectory, £618, with 200 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Governors of Harrogate College, and held since 1905 by the Rev. Alexander Reginald Langborne B.A. of Lincoln College, Oxford. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels. The charities amount to £230 annually, chiefly arising from land left in 1599 by Humphrey Dethick. Thomas Truelove Kendrick by will in 1873 left the sum of £1,800, the interest of which is distributed on St. Thomas' day in various sums to the poor of the parish, and to other needy persons. Rev. William Dethick by will in 1624 left the sum of £3,000 and 33 acres of land, part for educational purposes and the remainder to the poor. There are also several smaller charities given to widows and other poor persons in money and bread. There are a number of landowners. The soil is marl ; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are oats, wheat and turnips ; The area is 2,619 acres of land and 7 of water ; the population of the civil parish in 1921 was 1,515, and of the ecclesiastical, 1,374.

MIDWAY is a hamlet 1¾ miles south-west and 1 mile from Swadlincote station on the London, Midland and Scottish railway.
Goseley is a hamlet in the parish.

Post & Tel. Call Office. Letters through Burton-upon-Trent (Staffs). Woodville nearest M.O. & T. office.
Post, M.O. & Tel. Call Office, Midway. Letters through Burton-upon-Trent (Staffs). Swadlincote nearest T. office.

HARTSHORNE & SEALS RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL.
The District comprises the following parishes :- Boundary, Calke, Hartshorne, Nether Seal, Over Seal, Smisby, Ticknall & Woodville. The area is 11,749 acres ; the population in 1932 was 8,602.
The Council meets on the first tuesday in each month.
Chairman, Percy H. Kirby
Officials
Clerk, George Farmer, Kilwardby street, Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Treasurer, J.L. Smith, Midland Bank Limited, Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Medical Officer of Health, Roderick Robert Walter Logan M.R.C.S.Eng. Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Sanitary Inspector, J. Crabtree, Ashby-de-la-Zouch

Police Station Directory Listing
Extracted from: Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire, 1932 (on microfiche publ. by the Derbyshire Family History Society)

Woolley c.1712 Glover 1829 Pigot 1835 Bagshaw 1846 Lewis 1848 Slater 1850 White 1857 Harrison 1860 Wright 1874 Kelly 1881 Kelly 1887 Kelly 1895 Bulmer 1895 Kelly 1912 Kelly 1932

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