SINFIN
MOOR, an extra parochial liberty, 3 miles S. b. E. from Derby, and on which
Derby races were formerly held, contains 835A. 1R. 35P. of land, including 2A.
2R. 34P. of roads, and 12A. 3R. 15P. in drains; rateable value £1,388 3s. 6d.
The Grand Stand formerly stood in a field opposite to Mrs. Eliz., Bancroft’s,
but has been taken down several years. This moor was enclosed in 1802, when the
parishes and townships of Alvaston, Arleston, and Sinfin, Barrow, Boulton,
Chellaston, Normanton, Osmaston, and Swarkeston, had right of stray upon it,
and each had an allotment awarded, according to their respective size and
claim. Sir J. H. Crewe, Bart., Richard Sale, Esq., Sir Robt. Wilmot, Bart.,
Messrs. Wright, James Sutton, Esq., Rev. Henry Des Vœux, Mrs. Eliz. Bancroft,
and Mrs. Goodall, are the principal owners; with several smaller owners. The
Derby canal crosses it, and occupies 8A. 3R. 23P. There are two farm houses and
five cottages scattered on the common. The resident farmers are Elizabeth
Bancroft and James Sherratt. The other land is occupied by farmers in the
neighbouring parishes.
SHARDLOW
AND GREAT WILNE form a joint township, and was made a new ecclesiastical
district or parish in October, 1839.
SHARDLOW,
is a considerable village on the Derby and Loughborough turnpike road, and the
north bank of the river Trent, from 6 to 7 miles S.E. by E. from Derby; it
contains 1,207A. 3R. 27P. of land, and in 1851 had 213 houses and 1,121
inhabitants, of whom 520 were males and 601 females; rateable value £3,393 18s.
6d. Edward A. Holder, Esq., is lord of the manor, and with James Sutton, Esq.,
Mr. Thos. Cowlishaw, Messrs. Soresby, the Earl of Harrington, Rev. Wm. Roby
Burgin, Mr. James Hardy, and James and Charles Every Swindell, Esqs., are
owners. The Trent and Mersey canal runs through the village, and joins the
river Trent about half a mile below. On its banks and branches are several
extensive coal and timber wharfs, with a large warehouse for iron, another for
cheese, corn, and salt, and other warehouses belonging to three large carrying
establishments; for many years this was an improving place, but since the
opening of the Midland and other railways, the business of this place has been
gradually declining. Cavendish Bridge, over
the Trent, about a quarter of a mile S.E, from the village, is a substantial
SHARDLOW
AND GREAT WILNE PARISH. 317
stone bridge of
five elliptical arches, erected in 1771, at a cost of £3,333, It is 6 yards wide,
and with the approaches 82 yards long, The Church, a handsome Gothic stone
structure, with nave, chancel, a pinnacled tower and 6 bells; it is partly
pewed, and a part open seats, has a gallery at the west end with an organ, was
erected by voluntary contibutions, at a cost of £6,000. The living is a rectory, value £300, in the
patronage of James Sutton, Esq., and incumbency of the Rev. John Eaton, M.A.
82A. 0R. 8P. of glebe belong to the rector. The Baptists have a small chapel
here. A school, with a residence for the master, was erected by voluntary
subscriptions in 1810; in 1838 it was taken down, and a handsome parochial
school, with a good house in the centre for the master, was erected of brick,
at a cost of about £900, raised by voluntary subscriptions. The boys’ room will
accommodate 60, average attendance 46, and the girls’ room 60, about 40 attend.
Besides the childrens’ pence, the master receives £40 per annum, and the
mistress £22 1s. There are 40 to each school who pay 1d. each per week, and the
rest pay 2d. and 4d. The school is taught on the National plan. The Hall, a
large handsome stone mansion, is the seat and property of James Sutton, Esq.
Here are two Odd-Fellows’ Lodges, and a Female Benefit Society, and an
extensive Poor-law Union. Feast, third Sunday after November 5th.
SHARDLOW
POOR-LAW UNION was formed in 1837, and consists of 49 parishes and townships,
having 57 guardians, who meet every Monday, at 10 o’clock, at the Union
Workhouse. The population comprised in the union, in 1851 was 32,322, of whom
15,787 were males, and 16,535 females, and had 6,851 inhabited houses, 270
uninhabited and 19 building. 34 townships are in Derbyshire, 8 in
Leicestershire, and 7 in Nottinghamshire. It is divided into two districts with
relieving officers, nine medical and five registration districts. The workhouse
is a large handsome brick building, in the form of the letter L, situated on
the London road, 6 miles S.E. by E. from Derby, calculated to accommodate 280.
The gardens and other premises occupy 2A. 2R. 10P, of land. The cost of the
structure and land was £6,000.
The
places marked * are in Leicestershire, and those † in Nottinghamshire.
Alvaston,
Aston, Arleston and Sinfin, †Attenborough, †Bramcote, *Breedon, Breaston,
Boulton, Breadsall, Barrow, †Chilwell, Chaddesden, Chellaston, *Castle
Donington, Church Wilne, Dale Abbey, Draycott, Derby Hills, *Diseworth,
Elvaston, Hopwell, *Hemington, *Isley Walton, Kirk Hallam, *Kegworth,
*Kingston-on-Soar, *Langley Priory, Little Eaton, Long Eaton, Littleover,
*Lockington, Melbourne, Normanton, Ockbrook, Osmaston, Risley, †Ratcliffe,
Shardlow, Sawley, Sandiacre, Stanley, †Stapleford, Stanton-by-Bridge,
Stanton-by-Dale, Spondon, Swarkeston, †Toton, West Hallam, Weston.
Chairman to Board of Guardians, Charles
Stokes, Esq.
Chaplain, Rev. J. G. Bourne.
Clerk to Board of Guardians, and
Superintendent Registrar, Thomas Newbold.
Master and Matron of the Workhouse, John
and Hannah Bamford.
Schoolmaster, Ambrose Gaskin.—Schoolmistress, Maria Redfern.
Registrars of Births and Deaths, M.
T. Jones, Shardlow; C. Cade, Spondon; Joseph W. Cade, Breaston; Henry Day,
Castle Donington; and J. Campion, Melbourne, who is the registrar of marriages.
Relieving Officers, Henry
Day, Castle Donington, and Wm. Henshaw, Weston.
Surgeons, Shardlow District,
M. T. Jones; Spondon, Chas. Cade; Stapleford, Yelverton, Bosquet, and
Breaston, Joseph Wright Cade; Castle Donington, John Smith; Kegworth, J.
Barrow; Melbourne, Richard Thos. Tasker; Normanton, Chas. Borroughs.
GREAT
WILNE, a hamlet, small village, and joint township with Shardlow, ½ mile N.E.
from Shardlow, and 7¾ miles S.E. by E. from Derby, contains about 250 acres of
rich land. Edward A. Holden, Esq., J. & C. E. Swindell, Esqrs., with Mr.
Thos. Cowlishaw and others, are owners. The river Derwent runs past this
village, soon after which it has its confluence with the Trent. The New
Connexion Methodists have a small brick chapel here, erected in 1816. The
population of Great Wilne is given with the returns of Shardlow.
CHARITIES.—Leonard Fosbrooke, gave
a legacy of £20, to he laid out in land by his
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AND LITCHURCH HUNDRED.
executors, and the
rents to be distributed to fhe poor of Shardlow. Camilla Burgen, had given a legacy of £40 to the poor of Shardlow.
By indentures, dated 12th May, 1733, Thomas Twells, in consideration of £160
conveyed to Leonard Fosbrooke and Alpheus Burgen, as executors of the
above-named donors, and their heirs, a piece of meadow ground containing 2A.,
called Dokey Holm, in Castle Donington, and 2R. of meadow land at Meadow Yates,
and two ox pastures on the common pasture of Castle Donington. The open fields
have been enclosed, and the property now consists of the Misbegotten close,
(nearly three acres,) let for £9 14s. 0d. per annum, which is distributed
amongst the poor.
SHARDLOW TOWNSHIP.
Post Office, at
Sarah Cantrell’s. Letters arrive by mail cart from Derby at 7 A.M.; and are
despatched at 8 P.M.
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Bamford John, master, Union workhouse Birkin Silas, gardener Burton Philip, coal
merchant, and boat owner. Buttery George, plumber and glazier, Shardlow, wharf Chambers Thomas, schoolmaster Clarke Benjamin and Thomas, sail makers Clarke William, maltster
and farmer Clifford James, general
carrier, Broughton House Clifford Mr. George Clifford Samuel, boat
builder Cowlishaw Charles,
saddler Cowlishaw George, clerk Cowlishaw, Mrs. Hannah Cowlishaw Henry,
gentleman Cowlishaw John,
beerhouse & coal dealer Cowlishaw Thomas, farmer Cowlishaw Wm., coltr. of
poor & highway rates and assessed taxes Daniels & Payne,
iron, steel, and tin-plate merchants, Shardlow wharf;
James Llewelleyn, agent Draper William, corn miller Eaton, Rev. John, M.A., rector Finlay George Arthur,
agent for Bur- ton ales Finlay James, wharfinger,
canal wharf Fox James, gardener Gaskin Ambrose, Union school Hardy James, gent., Grove House Henshall John, butler Hewson William,
wheelwright Hinkley John, clerk Hutchinson William,
beerhouse, Lock Jones Michael Thomas,
surgeon & registrar of births
& deaths, Shardlow wharf |
Llewelleyn James, agent to Messrs. Daniels and
Payne, Shardlow wharf Marshall Joseph, farmer Mc Clatchie Quinton, butcher Moore Henry, butcher Moore Thomas, farmer Mousley Robert, collar and harness maker Plackett James, butcher Ratcliff Richard, farmer Ratcliff Robert, blacksmith Ratcliff Thomas, tailor Roberts William, builder, crane maker,
wheelwright, and valuer Roby Miss Ann Rose Samuel, tailor Sephton Francis, boat builder Sephton Thomas, general smith, Shardlow wharf Shardlow George, hairdresser and tailor Soar Thos., iron & steel mercht., Shardlow wharf, Thos. Sephton,
agent Soresby James Stevenson, general carrier Stroud Mary Ann, National school Sutton James, Esq., The Hall Sutton & Co., general carriers, & salt mer- chants, Shardlow wharf Taft John, clerk Thacker Eliza, school Williams John Hinchley, clerk, Shardlow wharf Inns and
Taverns. Dog and Dock, Elizabeth Shardlow Navigation Inn, George Moore, ( and farmer) Rose and Crown, Charles Thomas Baxter, (and farmer) Shakspear Inn, William Sison |
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Boot & Shoemkrs. Hewson Robert Roebotham James Simpkin Thomas Shopkeepers. Cantrell Sarah Cowlishaw John |
Dickinson Henry Hutchinson William, Lock
Mc Clatchie Charlotte Shardlow Ambrose Shardlow Elizabeth Simpkin Thomas Taylor John, (and baker) |
Carriers by Water. North
Staffordshire Railway Co’s Canal wharf;
Jas. Finlay, agent. Sutton & Co., to and from Hull,
Gains- bro’,
Liverpool,
Manchester, Che |
shire
Salt works,
Staffordshire Pot- teries,
Coventry, Dudley,
Birming- ham,
&c., Shard- low wharf Soresby Jas. S. & Wm Charles, Shardlow Wharf |
STANTON-BY-DALE
PARISH. 319
GREAT WILNE HAMLET.
Farmers.
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Beeston Wm. Crossley |
Hall Richard |
Lee Samuel |
Robotham Richard Hardy |
STANTON-BY-DALE,
a township, parish, and well built village, pleasantly situated on an eminence,
9 miles E. by N. from Derby, contains 1,491A. 1R. 17P. of land, rateable value
£3,250 14s., and in 1851 had 122 houses and 689 inhabitants, of whom 366 were
males and 323 females. Earl Stanhope is lord of the manor and sole owner,
except of 11 acres of glebe, and 1 acre which belongs to Lord Middleton. The
Church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a neat edifice, with nave, chancel, north
aisle, low pinnacled tower with 4 bells, and a gallery at the west end. The
altar-piece is a painting of the entombing of Christ. There are several
monumental tablets of the Pilkington family, one of which is to Matthew
Pilkington, L.L.B., prebendary of Lichfield, who is buried in the chancel with
several of his relatives; he died November 4th, 1765. The living is an endowed rectory. The great tithes have been commuted
into an annual payment of £300 per annum, the Rev. John Garton Howard, M.A., is
the incumbent, and chaplain to Earl Stanhope and, resides at the rectory house,
a neat mansion, nearly rebuilt by the present incumbent. A National school for
girls and infants was erected in 1855, at a cost of about £500, towards which
the late Lord Stanhope gave the site and £100. It is a handsome brick building
containing 2 school rooms, and a residence for the teacher, the average attendance
is about 45 girls and 30 infants. The Erewash and Nutbrook canal, which belongs
to Earl Stanhope runs through the parish, as does also the Erewash Branch of
the Midland Railway, and has a small station at Stanton Gate, about 1 mile N.
from the village. Here is a colliery, and some very extensive iron works are
being carried on near the canal. Near the centre of the village, on a pedestal
with four steps, stands a stone cross, having a plain octagonal shaft about 9
feet high, with a fleur de lis at the top, bearing date 1632. In 1789, a club
room was erected by subscription for the use of the male and female benefit
societies. Feast, Sunday before Michaelmas day. The manor was purchased in the
reign of Queen Elizabeth by Michael Willoughby, Esq., from the Babingtons. The
Church of Stanton belonged to the Dale Abbey, to which monastery three bovats
of land had been given. Sir Henry Willoughby gave the tithes of hay to the
minister, reserving a rent of 5s. yearly to himself and his heirs.
CHARITIES.—AIms
Houses were built at Stanton, in
1711, by Mrs. Winifrid Middlemore, in pursuance to the will of her husband,
Joseph Middlemore, for four persons. In 1720, Mrs. W. Middlemore conveyed, on
trust, certain lands to apply the yearly profits towards building alms houses,
keeping them in repair, and to support such poor persons as from time to time
should be placed in the said alms houses. Two others were built in 1735, by Mr.
Greogry Gregory. The property conists of an estate at Sutton-in-Ashfield of
61A. 0R. 25P. of land, let for £63 16s.; and an estate in Long Bennington of
32A. 0R. 28P. of land, with a barn erected thereon, let for £41 15s. per annum.
In 1825 there was a balance in the hands of Geregory Gregory, Esq., being the
only surviving trustee, a new trust was created, and two additional alms houses
have been built. The present trustees are Sir Robt. H. Bromley, Bart., Stoke
Hall; J. S. Sherwin, Esq., Bramcote Hills; the Right Hon. Earl Stanhope; and
the Rev. J. G. Howard, Stanton rectory.
Poor’s Lands.—In 1706, Matthew Smith, Esq.,
in consideration of £35 4s., conveyed on trust a close at Kilbourne, in the
parish of Horsley, called the Blackwalls or Netherhagg; the rents of the said
close to be within 10 days from the time of payment delivered to the overseers
of Stanton, to be by them distributed to the poor. The property consists of
three parcels of land, together about 4 acres, and a cottage built by the
tenant, who for a great length of time held the same at the yearly rent of £4.
Michael Baguley the acting trustee, appointed with three others in November,
1820, distributes the proceeds amongst the poor. It is not known whence the
money arose with which the purchase was made.
Risley School.—The inhabitants
of this parish are entitled to the benefit of this school,
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AND LITCHURCH HUNDRED.
of which the incumbent of Stanton is
ex-officio, and two parishioners are by election trustees.—(See Risley.)
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Barston James, clerk Buxton Sml., station master, Stanton
Gate Eversfield Rev. Thos., B.A., curate Gillott Thomas, brick maker Grundv John, blacksmith Grundy John, jun. baker Hallows Fanny, National schoolmistress Holmes George, buteher Holt William, vict. Seven Oaks Howard Rev. John Garton, M.A., Rectory
Mee Samuel, shoemkr. & assistant overseer |
Mee Thomas, shoemaker Morral William, collar & harness maker Riley
Tho., toll colloctor, Nutbrook Junc-
tion Lock Smedley John, colliery agent Stafford Elizabeth, infant school mistress Stanton Iron Works Co., Henry
Hartop, manager Thurman Thomas, wheelwright & joiner Winfield Eliz., beerhouse & shopkeeper Winfield William, shopkeeper |
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Farmers. Abbott Thomas Baguley Edward Baguley Elizabeth Blunston John Chadwick Joseph Chadwick Thomas Cresswell Joseph |
Doar William, (and grazier) Gervase Elijah Hickson Stephen Lakin Robert Meakin James Porter Henry, Stan- ton Grove |
Salt John, Lodge Farm
Scattergood Rd., (and vict.) StanhopeArms Railway Convey- ance. Midland Railway Co. Station, Erewash |
Valley Branch, 1 mile N. from the village; trains be- tween Derby, Not- tingham, and Mans- field, 3 each way daily; on Sundays, 2 each way, Samuel Buxton, station mst |
WESTON-UPON-TRENT
is a small rural village and parish, 7 miles S.E. by S. from Derby, contains
about 2,000 acres of strong fertile clay land, 77 houses, and 399 inhabitants,
of whom 202 were males, and 197 females; rateable value, £3,832 3s. 5d. Sir Robert Wilmot Bart., is lord
of the manor and principal owner, Thomas Pares, Esq., and E. A. Holden, Esq.,
are also owners. The Trent and Mersey Canal passes through the parish, and
occupies 24A. 1R. 28P. of land, for which it is rated at the value of £600. The
Church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a rectory, valued in the King’s book £11 16s.
3d., now £594. Lawrence Hall, Esq., patron, Rev. Robert N. French, incumbent,
for whom the Rev. F. W. Moore, officiates. It is a venerable stone edifice,
embosomed in trees near the cliff, and has nave, chancel, side aisles, and
embattled tower, surmounted by a spire with three bells. The seats are
principally open. In the chancel is a splendid monument of Richard Sale,
L.L.B., prebendary of Lichfield and rector of Weston, who died in 1625, and of
Dorothy his wife. It is in three compartments, occupied by a male and female
figures, and eight children, all kneeling. There is also one to the Rev. Robert
Holden, rector, who died in 1739. The rector has 307A. of glebe and tithe
allotment. The Baptists and Wesleyans have small chapels here, the former
erected in 1845, and the latter in 1846. A. school was established in 1844, and
Sir Robert Wilmot, Bart., pays for 6 boys. The Hall, a large old brick mansion
with stone dressings, is now occupied as a farm-house. It was formerly a seat
of the Roper family, by whom it was built in the early part of the 17th
century. It was afterwards in the family of Lee; of whom it was purchased by
Thomas Pares, Esq., about the year 1790. The house and about 6A. of land was
surrounded by a deep moat. We understand that only one third of the house was
built; had the original plan been carried out, it would have been an immense
pile of buildings. In 1847, Mr. George Towle, the present occupier, found three
handsome carved oak shields amongst the rubbish, in one of the lumber rooms,
all of which were painted blue; upon having them cleaned they were found to
contain respectively the arms of Charles II, Sir Thomas Fairfax, and Lord
Huntingtower. They are still in Mr. Towle’s possession. Cliff Inn, a noted place, half a mile west, stands on a cliff, near
which the canal and river Trent pass. At this cliff is an excellent quarry of
good building stone, occupied by Mr. Wm. Shreeve, and a ferry to King’s Newton.
The scenery round Weston is very picturesque, and particularly from Weston Hill
Farm. At Domesday survey this manor was in the hands of. the Crown, it was
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given afterwards to Hugh Lupus, and by him to the abbot
and convent of Chester. After the Reformation it was granted to Sir William
Paget, it afterwards came into the Holden family; about the year 1649, an
ancestor of Sir Robert Wilmot purchased the greatest part of the estate.
CHARITIES.—Ann Holden, in 1766, gave to the rector and churchwardens
of Weston £50, to be disposed of by them in such proportions towards the relief
and maintenance of the poor, as they should deem most proper. This legacy, with
the sum of £10 given by some person unknown, is in the Derby Savings’ bank.
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Critchley Ellen, baker Dollman Thomas, blacksmith Fitchett Elizabeth, school Henshaw Elizabeth, shopkeeper Henshaw James, vict., and plough maker, Plough Henshaw Wm., relieving officer Joynes Judith, school Knight James, shoemaker Moore Rev. Francis W., curate, Rectory |
Mosedale Joseph, wheelwright Newbold Matthew,
shopkeeper Plant Mary, vict., Cliff
Inn Rose Thomas, shoemaker Rose Wm., vict., and
parish clerk; Old Gate Inn Shreeve William, stone
mason, builder, and quarry owner Weston William, lock keeper |
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Farmers. Audinwood Mark, Grange Beck James |
Goodman Thomas, Glebe Farm Henshaw John, New Closes Marple Thomas |
Neville Charles, Weston Field Rose William Scott Joseph, Church Farm |
Towle George, The Hall
Wilkins Charles Wilkins William Wright James, Weston Hill |
WILLINGTON,
is a pleasant well-built village and parish, situated on the north bank of the
Trent, 6½ miles S.W. from Derby, and 4½ N.E. from Burton-upon-Trent. Here are
several neat mansions, occupied by the Rev. Francis Ward Spilsbury, George
Smallwood, Esq., and Mrs. Francis Allsopp. The two first named are the property
of the Rev. F. W. Spilsbury. The parish contains, 1,193A. 0R. 38P. of light
fertile land, and in 1851 had 109 houses, and 442 inhabitants, of whom 227 were
males, and 215 females; rateable value, £3,743 6s. Sir Robert Burdett, Bart.,
is lord of the manor and principal owner. Etwall and Repton corporation and the
Rev. F. W. Spilsbury, are also owners. The Grand Trunk canal passes near the
north side of the village, on which Messrs. Bass and Smith, of Horninglow, have
a large warehouse and coal wharf. The Birmingham and Derby railway (West branch
of the Midland) passes through the village, and occupies 15A. of land, and has
a neat station. The booking office is a small brick building, the roof of which
is just level with the rails, on account of the height of the embankment, and
the line crossing two of the streets, by stone bridges, the means of approach
from the booking office to the platform, is by a flight of 31 stone steps, near
which are two good inns, with stabling and every other convenience, viz, the
Rising Sun and Green Man. In 1839, a good substantial bridge of 5 arches was erected across the Trent
to Repton, on which there is a toll house; it was built by subscription, at a
cost of £9,000, and the approaches to it about £3,000, for the construction of
which the public are much indebted to Mr. Stephen Glover, of Derby. The Church,
dedicated to St. Michael, is an ancient stone edifice, with nave, chancel, and
pinnacled tower, in which are three bells, and contains several neat tablets.
The living is a vicarage, valued in
the King’s book at £4 17s. 3d., now £82, has been augmented with £800 Queen
Anne’s bounty, vested in land at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire. The
corporation of Etwall and Repton are patrons, and the Rev. Wm. Findlay,
incumbent, for whom a vicarage is about to be erected. The Baptists and
Wesleyan Methodists have each places of worship here. A small school was
erected in 1831, by the Rev. F. W. Spilsbury, who principally supports the
same. The Odd Fellows have a lodge, and there is also a Sick society here. The
feast is held first Sunday after the 19th Sept.
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AND LITCHURCH HUNDRED.
The
manor at Domesday survey belonged partly to the King and partly to Ralph Fitz-hubert.
King Henry II. gave a manor to Burton Abbey. The other manor appears to have
been given with the church by the family of Willington, to the prior and
convent of Repton, to whom the tithes were appropriated in 1223. Wm. Westcote
conveyed this manor, about the year 1554, to Sir John Porte; founder of Repton
school
CHARITIES.—Sudbury
Rent Charge.—The yearly sum of £2 is paid by the agent of Lord
Vernon, as a rent charge on some part of the Sudbury estate, which is
distributed on St. Thomas’s day.
In
the Parliamentary Returns of 1786,
10s. per annum is mentioned, supposed to be a charge on some property at
Barrow. The sum is paid through the Burton bank and distributed on St. Thomas’s
day. There is also mention of a donation of land by some person unknown,
producing £1 per annum. The sum is now paid by Mr. Holbrooke, tanner, at
Repton, and distributed as above.
Benjamin Spilsbury, in
1815, left a rent charge of £5, out of a building in Willington and a
piece of land used as a wharf, upon trust that they should distribute the same
to poor men and women belonging to the parish of Willington. This sum is given
to 20 poor men or women about February.
John Gisborne’s Charity.—(See St.
Werburgh, Derby.)—The portion
applicable to this parish is for buying coats or gowns, and a distribution of
money,
Findern School.—(See Mickleover.)—The poor of this parish are
entitled to send their children to this school.
Post Office, at
Mr. Wm. Cantrell’s. Letters arrive by foot post from Burton-upon-Trent at 9.30
A.M., and are despatched at 4.30 P.M.
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Allsopp Mrs. Francis, The Hall Backhouse Ellen, school Barker Mrs. Elizabeth Bats & Smith, coal,
brick, tile, drain pipe, lath, and salt merchants, Canal wharf Bayley Miss Maria Ann Boast Charles, thrashing
machine &c. owner Burrows C., coal, tile, lath, and drain pipe dealer Cantrell William,
station master, and post office Clarke Mr. Job Cope John, agent to
Messrs. Bass & Smith, Canal wharf Findlay, Rev. William, vicar Gaskin Edward, bricklayer |
Gaskin Frederick,
bricklayer & builder Gaskin Thomas, bricklayer and builder Gaskin William, plane manufacturer Hall
William, bridge toll collector Horobin Mr. William Horobin William, jun., butcher Kirkland Samuel,
wheelwright Kirkland William,
wheelwright Morris Henry William, blacksmith Pope William, tailor and
woollen draper Redfern Benjamin, horse
breaker Smallwood George, Esq. Spilsbury, Rev. Francis
Ward Westley William, civil
engineer Whirledge Wm., jun.,
parish clerk Wilson Richard, gardener |
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Inns & Taverns. Green Dragon, Ralph Waller Green Man, Elam Clifford,(and baker) opposite the station Rising Sun & Railway Hotel, Wm. Gaskin, opposite the station Farmers. Bull Hannah |
Fitchett John Gilman John, Dale farm Keeling John, (and maltster) Vickers Samuel Watson Joseph, The Hill Watson William Shoemakers. Chambers Thomas |
Pegg
Samuel, (and Shopkeepers. Cantrell William Chambers Mary Clay Ann Railway Convey- ance. Willington & Repton |
Railway station, (West branch of the Midland.) From Derby to Birming- ham, Bristol, &c. There are four Pas- senger trains, and 1 Goods’ train each way, daily; Mr.W. Cantrell, station master |
WILNE
parish contains the townships of Church
Wilne, Draycott, and Hopwell, the principal part of the township and
parochial chapelry of Risley, and the
parochial chapelry of Breaston, in
the prebendary of Sawley. The entire parish contains 4,390A. 3R. 3P. of
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PARISH. 323
light sandy land,
and in 1851 had 454 houses and 2,094 inhabitants, of whom 1022 were males and
1,072 females; rateable value £11,931 5s.
11d.
CHURCH
or LITTLE WILNE, is a small village and township, situate on the Derwent, over
which is a bridge, which divides it from Great Wilne and Shardlow, 7¾ miles
S.E. from Derby. The Earl of Harrington is lord of the manor and owner of the
whole, except 17 acres of glebe which belongs to the prebendary; the glebe land
for the whole parish is let for about £163 per year. The Church, dedicated to
St. Chad, is a venerable edifice, with nave, chancel, south aisle, embattled
tower, and 4 bells, with a gallery at the west end, and an organ. On the south
side the chancel is a mausoleum, belonging to the Willoughby family. The
entrance door is of oak, beautifully
carved, with a date, 1624. The floor is of tesselated bricks. It is lighted by
3 windows of stained glass. One represents the birth, one the crucifixion, and
the other the ascension of Christ. In the interior is a handsome black and
white marble monument, to Anne Willoughby, dated 1688. A very splendid one of
white veined marble, richly gilt and coloured, with a male and female figure
lying in a recess, beautifully ornamented. They are John Willoughby, of Risley,
and Frances his wife. He died
in January, 1605, and she in 1602. Several others of the family are interred
here. Several handsome mural tablets have been erected to various persons. The livinq is a perpetual curacy in the
prebendal court of Sawley, has been augmented with £1600 parliamentary grant;
patron Bishop of Lichfield. Rev. Samuel Hey, M.A., incumbent, and Rev. Wm.
Lloyd, M.A., curate. The population and acreage are given with Draycott.
CHARITIES. —Church Land.—The rent of a
piece of land in the manor of Draycott, in this parish, comprising 60 yards in
length, and 20 yards 1 foot in breadth, is situated at the south east corner of
the Wycrofts. The owner pays 6s. to the church-wardens for this land. The
boundaries are to be ascertained by proper marks and a fair rent procured.
BREASTON
is a large village and parochial chapelry 7¾ miles E.S.E. from Derby, contains
about 1,447 acres of fertile land, enclosed in 1757, 156 houses and 680
inhabitants, of whom 329 were males and 351 females; rateable value £3,317 10s.
9d. The Rev. John Hancock Hall, executors of John Attenborough, M.D., J. W.
Chapel, gent., William Charlton, Esq., Mr. Thomas Harrison, Mr. John Stevens,
Risley school, Burton school, and the Earl of Harrington are owners, the
former, lord of the manor.
This
manor, BRAIDESTUNE, at Domesday survey was held with Risley, by Roger de Busli.
The chapel, dedicated to St. Michael, is a perpetual curacy, annexed to Risley,
value £119. hiss been augmented with £200 benefactions, £600 Queen Anne’s
bounty, and £1,000 parliamentary grant. Bishop of Lichfield, patron; Rev. Henry
Banks Hall, LL.B., of Risley, incumbent; Rev. J. C. Jones, curate. The chapel,
a venerable edifice, has nave, chancel, south aisle, a low tower surmounted by
a lofty spire with three bells, was new pewed and a gallery erected and
repaired in 1840, at a cost of £200. The font is a rich specimen of Derbyshire
spar, dated 1750, with a fluted column and bowl. The chapel yard was enclosed with a neat iron railing
in 1823, when it was consecrated for a burial ground. The tithes were commuted
in 1842, for £368, and will lapse into the hands of the Ecclesiastial
Commissioners in 20 years, from the death of the late Dr. Gardener. Here are
22A. of glebe land. The New Connexion Methodists have a chapel built 1803, and
enltrged 1816, and the Primitive Methodists have one built 1852. Twenty lace
machines and 40 hosiery frames are employed in the village. Feast, nearest
Sunday to Old Michaelmas day.
John Charleton, in
1711, gave £100 to purchase lands, the rents thereof to be distributed on
Christmas day, to the poor of Breaston. In 1715, £88 was invested in two closes
in East Bridgford, called the Pingle close, and Kirkhill close. In the same
year a further sum of £15 was laid out in lands lying in the open fields, which
were enclosed in 1796. The property now consists of two fields, each containing
4A., now let for £16 per annum, and the rents are distributed amongst the poor,
in sums varying from 2s. to 7s. in clothing.
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AND LITCHURCH HUNDRED.
DRAYCOTT
is a large and well-built village and joint township with Church or Little
Wilne, 7 miles E..S.E. from Derby, contains 1,397A. 3R. 3P. of land mostly a
light sand, 245 houses, and 1,161 inhabitants, of whom 568 were males, and 593
females; rateable value, £5,163 5s. 2d. Earl of Harrington, Admiral Sir G.
Mundy, Mrs. Sarah Scott, the Prebendary of Sawley (216A.), the Rev. F. N. Highmore,
John Curzon, Esq., Messrs. Towle, and Mr. James Nutt, are owners. The former is
lord of the manor. The Nottingham railway runs on the north side of the
village, and occupies 11A. 3R. 18P. of land, and the Canal, 58A. 2R. 9P. A part
of the township pays a tithe rent charge of £9 13s. 6d. to Thos. Pares, Esq. In
1800, the late Mr. Towle established a cotton mill here. The present factory
was erected in 1814, and enlarged in 1818, and a steam engine of 16 horse power
added. In 1842, a lace factory was erected in which about 40 machines are
worked, since which time a doubling shed has been built, which gives employment
to thrice the number of hands employed before; another mill near the Canal,
with a steam engine of 16 horses power is at present unoccupied. The Wesleyan
Methodist have a large handsome chapel, built 1830, at a cost of £700, to seat
300 persons. The former chapel, built in 1800, of which John Nelson laid the
first stone, is now used as a Sunday school; 100 attend, and a day, school for
poor children is supported by subscription. In 1854, the Parochial schools were
erected for boys and girls, at a cost of £900, raised by subscriptions, aided
by a grant from Government of £386. They are large and commodious buildings of
brick and stone, and afford accommodation for 180 children; about 120 attend,
of which number sixty are educated at the expense of Messrs. Towle. Here are
two Odd Fellows’ lodges, and two Sick societies. Feast, nearest Sunday to St.
Michael.
Poor’s
Money.—A sum of £9 was left by some donor unknown: 9s.
interest is paid for it, distributed on St. Thomas’s day, in sums of 3d. and
6d. to poor widows and others of the township.
HOPWELL
township, 7 miles E. from Derby, contains 4, houses, and 42 inhabitants, of whom
20 were males, and 22 females, and 610A. of strong clay land; rateable value,
£950 Thos. Pares, Esq. is the owner, and resides at the hall, a handsome brick
mansion, seated on an eminence, within a well-wooded park of about 90A., from which extensive views into
Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Northamptomshire, and Staffordshire, are
obtained, The tithe is paid by a modus of £10 per annum, to the incumbent of
Wilne.
The
manor (OPEWELLE) was held, by Ralph Fitz Hubert, at Domesday survey, under of
Chester. In 1296, it was, held by Ralph de Shirley, under the Earl of
Lancaster. It passed to the Sacheverells, and, in 1661 Ferdinando Sacheverell
bequeathed it to his cousin Henry Hayes, gent, who sold it in 1731, to Bache
Thornhill, Esq., who in 1734, alienated it to Sir Bibye Lake, Bart., whose
grandson Sir Jas. Winter Lake, Bart., sold it in 1784, to the father of the
present owner.
RISLEY
parochial chapelry and neat rural village and township, situated 8 miles E. by
S, from Derby, contains, 836A., of rich strong clay land, and in 1851 had 49
houses, and 211 inhabitants, of whom 105 were males, and 106 females; rateble
value, £2,500 10s. 0d. Rev. John Hancock Hall, Mr. Thos. Harrison, Thos. Pares,
Esq., Mrs. Mary Fellows, Mr. Henry Porter, Rev. Samuel Hey, Mr. Joseph
Fletcher, Mr. Thos. Cooper, and others are also owners. The former is lord of
the manor. A tithe rent charge of £226 1s. is paid to the lessee for the Wilne
part, and a rent charge of modusses of £4 amounting to £30 15s. 7d., is paid to
the lessee of the prebendary of Sandiacre. Here are 7A. of glebe. The Chapel,
dedicated to All Saints, was built by Michael Willoughby, Esq., in 1593. It is
a neat edifice, with nave, chancel, handsome pinnacled tower and three bells.
It was, thoroughly repaired, repewed, and a north aisle added in 1841, at a
cost of £545, defrayed by a subscription of the patron and inhabitants, aided
by a grant from the Derby Diocesan Church building Society. The font is of
beautiful Derbyshire marble, richly ornamented. There is a small galley at the
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west end, and the
east window is composed of beautiful stained glass, representing St. Peter and
Paul. The chancel is divided from the nave by a neat screen and here are two
marble tablets to the memory of the Hall family. The living is a
perpetual curacy, now valued at £160, has been augmented with £200
benefactions, £400 Queen Anne’s bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant. The
Bishop of Lichfield, patron, Rev. Henry Banks Hall, LL.B., incumbent. Risley
Park, which contains 24A. 3R. 36P. of land, is a tithe-free estate, in
Sandiacre parish. The poor of Risley have free access to a library suppported
at the sole enpense of the Rev. H. B. Hall. Feast, Sunday before Noventber 5th.
Sir
Hugh Willoughby, a native of this place, was employed to discover the North
West Passage, in the reign of Henry VI., but was frozen to death with his crew,
in 1554. At the Domesday survey, Roger de Busli held this manor, but Levinus
possessed one-third in the reign of Edward I. William Morteyne held it under
the Paveley family. The heiress of his son Roger, brought it to Sir Richard de
Willoughby, one of the justices, and some time chief justice of the common
pleas. His younger son Hugh settled at Risley, where his descendants continued
for several generations. Henry Willoughby, Esq., was created a Baronet in 1611.
It became the property of Sir Thos. Ashton, Bart., who married Anne, one of the
co-heiresses. The manor was purchased of Sir Willoughby Aston, Bart., by John
Hancock, Esq.
Risley School.—Michael Willoughby, and Catherine
his wife, gave 20 nobles (£6 13s. 4d. per annum; which was increased by Sir
Henry Willoughby, their grandson, to 20 marks, (£13 6s. 8d.,) towards
maintaining a schoolmaster at Risley. Mrs Elizabeth Gray, their descendant,
having built a school-house, with a habitation for the master and usher, in the
year 1718, endowed the schools with lands, then worth £50 per annum, for
teaching all the children of Risley, and the sons only of the inhabitants of
Breaston, Sandiacre, Dale Abbey, Stanton near Dale, Wilsthorp, Draycott, and
Hopwell, to read, write, and cast accounts, and the head master to teach grammar and the classics to such
boy as are qualified and desirous to learn—both masters to be constantly
resident in the school house. The said Elizabeth Gray, in 1720, save the sum of
£200 to be laid out lands, and the profits thereof applied to the use of a
schoolmistress, who should teach all the girls in Risley, and an equal number
of girls of the other townships whose male children were free, as should be
appointed by the trustees. She also gave £100 to lands for the maintenance of
an assistant to teach all the girls to write and cast accounts and £100 to
purchase lands, to pay the fines off, or for enfranchising a copyhold estate at
Irdridge Hay. By a codocil to her will, dated March 2, 1721, she devised her
messuage and lands in Long Clawson, and Hose, in the county of Leicester, upon
trust to John White that, upon the payment of £400 to him by the governors of Queen
Anne’s bounty, £40 yearly, part of the said premises, should be settled as an
augmentation to the chapelies of Risley and Breaston—£20 each. In 1722, John
White, and the governors of Queen Anne’s bounty, who paid £400, conveyed the
estates at Long Clawson and Hose to the above-named chapelries, reserving £6
16s. to the schools, in lieu of a legacy in her will of £6 13s. 4d. The school
premises consist of a good house, with gardens and croft, containing 1A. 1R.
28P. for the head master; a house for the under master, with garden and croft,
1A. 2R. 21P. Two schools, forming distinct building, one of which is divided
into two parts—one part being the grammar school and the other the girl’s
school—with two rooms over, in which the schoolmistress resides; the other
school is used as the English school for boys. The following is a summary of
the annual income of the estates—Rent charge out of the manor of Wilsthorpe,
£13 6s. 8d.; rents of the premises conveyed by Mrs Gray’s deed of 1718, £171
17s. 5d; dividends on £100 3 per cent. consols, £3, rent of the estate of Long
Clawson and Hose, £190, which contains
126A, making a total of £378 4s. 1d. The number of scholars is now limited to
100, divided according to the population except Risley, which has no limit. The
present numbers are, 20 boys and 10 girls from Sandiacre, 17 boys and 8 girls
from Breaston; 17 boys and 8 girls from Dale Abbey, 28 boys and 14
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AND LITCHURCH HUNDRED.
girls from
Draycott, 7 boys and 4 girls from Risley, 1 boy and girl from Hopwell, 12 boys
and 6 girls from Great Stainton, and 1 boy and 1 girl from Wilsthorpe. The
English master has a salary of £85. £15 is divided betwixt the head boy and the
monitors of the school, and the schoolmistress’ salary is £15.
CHARITIES.—Sir
Henry Willoughby, Bart., Anchitel
Gray, Esq., Willoughby Gray, Esq., and
Elizabeth Gray, had given sums of money amounting to £71, for which sum, in
1714, Francis Handley conveyed to trustees a close of 6A., except 20s. paid out of the said close to the poor of West
Hallam, for the payment of which he granted a rent charge of 20s., to be paid
out of Long Close, in Mapperley; one third of the rent to be applied for the
reparation of Risley school, the remaining two-thirds to the poor of Risley.
The rent charge of 20s. on the Long close has been many years unpaid to the
poor of West Hallam.
There
is a sum of £8 left to the poor of Risley, issuing out of a field at Mapperley,
two thirds of which are distributed to the poor, and the remainder applied for
the repairs of the schoolhouse.
Risley is also entitled to
two of the almshouses, at Ilkeston, left by John Smedley, and built and endowed
by Richard Smedley, in 1744, with a rent charge of £60. (See Ilkeston.)
CHURCH WILNE TOWNSHIP.
|
Dawson Thomas, shopkeeper Soresby Wm. Charles, cotton spinner |
Taylor George, manager
at the mill Tillard & Co., cotton spinners. Wilne mills |
BREASTON
CHAPELRY.
|
Abbott
John, gent. Bancroft
George, joiner Cade
Joseph Wright, surgeon, and registrar of births and deaths Carter
John, cowkeeper Clifford
John, plumber and glazier Cook
Samuel, cowkeeper Draper
Mrs. Mary Eden
Mrs. Elizabeth Gamble Robert, cowkeeper Huyzer
Peter, lace manufr., & Nottingham Jones
Rev John C., curate Orme Joseph, cowkeeper |
Plackett John, butcher Plackett Wm., butcher Poxon Mr. Joseph Remington Mr. George, Breaston
Cottage Remington Mr. John, Ivy Cottage Rosel Mrs. Stevens Mrs. Elizabeth Stevenson William, dyer Inns and
Taverns. Bull’s Head, Wm.
Plackett, sen Chequers, George Enzor Navigation Inn, Thos. Stevenson |
|
Blacksmiths. Hood William Boot &
Shoemakrs. Flint Henry Stevenson John Walker Samuel Farmers. Bailey William Chappell Jph. Wright |
Cupitt James Felton William Grundy Samuel Hind William Poxon Charlotte Radford Thomas Salthouse Thos., Hill Stevens John Stevens Thomas Thompson Edward Shopkeepers. Enzor George Freason Thomas |
Gamble William Thompson John, (and draper) Tailors. Plackett Thos. Plackett Thos., jun Walker John Walker William Warp Net Mkrs. Dolman George Plackett George Plackett Henry |
Plackett Math. &Luke Plackett Robert Wheelwrights. Birkhamshaw Henry Butler Peter Gregory John Stevenson John Carrier. Silas Plackett, Not- tingham, Wednesday & Sat.; & to Derby on Friday |
DRAYCOTT
TOWNSHIP.
|
Arthur Thos., butler, Draycott House Astle
John, overlooker at the mill Baker
Wm., nursery, seedsman, and florist, Rose
Cottage Bates Wm., clock maker |
Bramley Joseph, station master Castledine Wm., coal dealer Charlton Wm., druggist Cholerton Robert, blacksmith Cholerton William, cowkeeper |
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|
Clay Edward, plumber and
glazier Clifford John, plumber and glazier Coxen John, gardener Cupitt Frederick,
footman to H. Oldknow, Esq. Dutton Wm., gardener Elliot Saml., coal dealer and boat owner Foster George, baker Gill Eliza, milliner and
dressmaker Hull Mrs., housekeeper, Draycott House Johnson Alfred, overlooker at the mill Naden Elias, gardener, Draycott
House Lloyd Rev. William, M.A., curate Oldknow Henry, Esq. Pratt Jonathan, machinist at Messrs.Towle’s Robotham Wm., beerhouse Rowley John, machinist Scott Mrs. Sarah, Draycott House |
Smith
Wm., horsebreaker Sowter
Wm. Richard, manager at Messrs. Towle’s Thorpe Henry, coal dealer and boat owner Towle John and Co., cotton and lace mfrs., Draycott Mills Towle Jno. Harrison, lace mfr.; h. Draycott Hall Walker Thomas, trav. draper Wall Wm., farm bailiff, Draycott House Whitcraft Thos., plate layer M. R. Woods Thos., farm bailiff Inns and Taverns. Coach and Horses,
William Gill Rose and Crown, William Wignall Victoria Inn, Robert Corden |
Academies
Parochial,
Fdk. John-
son, master; & Jane
Astle, mistress Wesleyan,
Catherine
Statham, mistress Boot &
Shoemkrs. Astle Saml., (& ferry-
man) Gregory Charles Sexton Samuel Taylor Hnry, Spring- thorpe Thorpe Henry Trowell Thomas |
Farmers. Allestree Thomas Battelle Peter Bosworth Mary Cooper Thomas Cowlishaw George Coxon Thomas Coxen Thos., Jun., Pastures Hall Zadok, (& butcher) James John, & Joshua Moorley Joseph, Field Newton John Oakley John Potter Richard Smith Joseph, Fields Smith Phil. (& butcher) Thompson Richard |
Trowell William Grocers
& Drapers
Mrked * are Drapers only. Battelle Peter Bosworth Joseph Coxen Thomas Gill Joseph * Slater James Joiners. Daft George Daft William Theobald John Shopkeepers. Bosworth Joseph, jun. Foster Geo., (& baker) Moore Saml., (& boat
owner) |
Tailors. Gamble Ralph Hickinbotham Thos. Railway
Convey- ance. Midlland
Railway Co. (Derby & Notting- ham Branch,)
from whence there
are 7 trains to Derby,
and 6 to Nottingham
and Rugby each way
daily; Jph. Bramley station master Carrier
Thos. Astle, to Nott-
ingham, Wed. & Sat.
& to Derby, Fri. |
HOPWELL
TOWNSHIP.
|
Pares Thomas, Esq., the Hall Cumberland Thomas, farmer |
Hobill Jph., lodge keeper |
RISLEY
TOWNSHIP.
|
Abbott
George, painter Bagshaw Wm., shoemaker Blore
Chas., shopkeeper Eaton Francis, blacksmith Fellows Mrs. Mary Hall Rev. Henry Banks,
L.L.B., incumbent, Parsonage Hall Rev. John Hancock, the Hall Hall Capt. Wm., R.N., the Hall |
Hawley Thomas, cowkeeper Mears Edward, cowkeeper Newton Samuel, cowkeeper Norwood Ralph, oowkeeper Oldershaw John, parish clerk Ratcliffe James, vict., Blue Ball Skeavington Miss Sarah Smith Chas. Henry, lace manufacturer |
|
Academy. Grammar, Rev, Hy. B. Hall, head master; Jno. Cresswell, En- glish master; and Miss Cresswell, mis- tress |
Farmers. Abbott Thos. Fletcher Joseph., the Park |
Garratt William, (and surveyor of high- ways, and letter out of agricultural im- plements for hire) |
Harrison Thomas Painter Jno., the Lodge Porter Benjamin Porter Hy., the Park Wilcockson Jno. Park |