CHELMORTON, a township, chapelry, and indifferent village, situated at the foot of a lofty hill, 5 miles S.W. from Tideswell, 4½ miles S .E. from Buxton, and 7 miles W. from Bakewell, contains l,954A. 1R. 23P, of land, and in 1851 had 54 houses, and 238 in­habitants, of whom 130 were males, and 108 females; rateable value, £1,404. This chapelry includes the township of Flagg, and formerly that of Buxton, of which the detached parts—i.e. Cowdale, King’s Sterndale, and Stadon—of that township, are still considered as in this chapelry. The principal owners are the Duke of Devonshire, Rev. Wm. Marsden, Messrs. Jno. Bateman, Joseph Swanwick, Robert Hargreaves, Charles Finney, and Priestcliff School. The Church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is a very ancient stone structure, being erected A.D., 1111, and is said to stand on the greatest elevation of any church in England. It contains nave, chancel, aisles, and embattled tower with 4 bells, surmounted with a spire. The living is a perpetual curacy, certified value £7 15s. 4d., now £80, has been augmented with £200 benefactions, and £1,200 Queen Anne’s bounty; is in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield, and patronage of the vicar of Bakewell; Rev. James Coates, incumbent, who resides at the Parsonage, a neat house west of the church. At the inclosure of Chelmorton and Flagg, under an act passed 1805, land was awarded, in 1808, in lieu of all tithes, to the Duke of Devonshire, the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield, and the incumbent. The manor is parcel of the Queen’s manor of the High Peak, of which the Duke of Devonshire. is lessee. The Talbot family had a mense manor in Chelmorton, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, in which they were succeeded by the Eyres, of Hassop. It now belongs to Colonel Leslie. There was a chapel here as early as the year 1282, at which time the prior of Lenton, in Nottinghamshire, had two-thirds, and the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield the remainder of the tithes, and they were jointly bound to provide books and ornaments for the chapel, and the dean and chapter a priest with a stipend of five marks. The Indepen­-

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dents have a chapel, which is also used by the Methodists. On the summit of the hill west of the village are two barrows adjoining each other, the circumference of the largest being about 240 feet, which was opened in 1782, when several human skeletons were discovered in rude stone coffins. I’ll Willy Water rises from a spring on a Lowe, and passing through the town falls into a Swallow in the limestone, and goes a long distance before it appears to the day again. Ditch, Flatt, and Shellow, are scattered farms, from ¼ to 1 mile W. from the village. The feast is on New Year’s day.

CHARITIES.—Mrs. Ann Bagshaw, it is stated on a tablet in Chelmorton chapel, left the interest of £5 to the poor of Chelmorton. 5s. is received from a farm belonging to Mrs. Johnson, which formerly belonged to Mr. Buxton, the grandfather of the late Mr. Johnson. The overseer, on our enquiry, stated that it was intended to make application for the money to Mrs. Johnson, in order to place it on some good security.

William Hodgkinson, by will in 1814, gave to his executors £40, in trust, to be placed out on real security for the use of the poor of Chelmorton. In 1815, this sum was placed by his executor, Mr. Sampson Marsden, on the security of a mortgage of lands at Eyam. The interest, £2 per annum, is received by the overseer of the poor, and distributed yearly amongst widows and other poor.

CHELMORTON SCHOOL—William Brocklehurst, who died in 1792, gave £101 4s., secured on the tolls of a turnpike road leading from Buxton, and another sum of £200 secured on the tolls of a road leading to Cheadle, during his lifetime, for the purpose of applying the interest for ever for the increase of the salary to the schoolmaster of the charity school at Chelmorton. By indenture, 1818, the executors and residuary legatee of John Buxton, conveyed to trustees a cottage and plot of land of 12 yards in length and 10 yards in breadth, at the east end of the town of Chelmorton, for the residue of a term of 500 years, commencing 5th August, 1785. John Lambton Stonehouse, as the representa­tive of William Brocklehurst, surrendered to the said trustees the above two sums, on trust, for the use of a schoolmaster. The cottage mentioned is divided into two dwellings. On an inclosure of common lands, under an act passed in 1805, about one rood was allotted to this cottage, now let for 7s 6d. a year. The two sums still remain invested in the same securities. The security of the Buxton road bears interest at 5 per cent., which is very irregularly paid. At our inquiry five years’ interest was due. The Cheadale road bears interest at 3½ per cent., which is regularly paid. The income averages about £18 per annum, for which about 21 poor children of Chelmorton are instructed in reading, writing, arithmetic, aud the church catechism. We are informed an annual sum of £2 was paid to the schoolmaster by Mr. Michael Buxton till his death, about 49 years ago, supposed to have been made in respect of Farthing Field, but we have not been able to obtain any further information relating to it.

FLAGG, a township and scattered village in a fine open district, in the chapelry of Chelmorton, from which it is distant 1 mile S.E. and 6 miles W. from Bakewell, contains 1,771A. 3R. 29P. of limestone land, and in 1851 had 48 houses, and 239 inhabitants, of whom 126 were males, and 113 females; rateable value, £1,358 17s. 9d. The principal owners are the Duke of Devonshire, Messrs. Jno. and Chas. Finney, Jas. Beech, Thos. W. Evans, Esq.; Rev. H. K. Cornish, Mr. Thos. Needham, and Mr. George Dunn. It is within the Queen’s manor of the High Peak, of which the Duke of Devonshire is lessee. The Unitarians have a chapel, built in 1838, and the Primitive Methodists one, erected in 1839. Feast, Sunday after 6th of July.

CHARITIES.—John Dale, eldest son of George Dale, who was the heir-at-law of Thomas Dale, conveyed in 1807 to Robert Duke and six others, on trust, in consideration of £12 12s., a croft, in Flagg, called Piper’s yard, or Dale croft, by estimation one acre, then let for the yearly rent of 32s., for carrying into effect the will of the aforesaid Thomas Dale. At the inclosure, about one rood was awarded to the croft, and now let for £4 per annum. The rent, with 20s. received from Syth Dale’s charity, it distributed on St. Thomas’s day amongst widows and fatherless children.

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CHELMORTON CHAPELRY CHARITIES.—Mrs. Syth Dale, in 1667, according to a tablet in Chelmorton chapel, gave £1 l8s. 6d. yearly out of her estate in Flagg, to be distributed every Christmas-day, by the curate and the executors of John Buxton, of Chelmorton, and William Bagshaw, of Flagg. The sum of £2 is now received from the owners of different parts of the estate which formerly belonged to Mrs. Dale. One moiety is received by the minister of Chelmorton on Christmas-day. and distributed to poor per­sons at the chapel, that day, after divine service. The other moiety is received and distributed by the overseer of Flagg, on St. Thomas’s day.

Robert Dale, by will, 1742, gave £40 to the poor of Flagg and Chelmorton, to be invested on landed security in three trustees, the parson of Chetmorton to be one, to be divided at Christmas or Candlemas. An annual sum of 40s. is received for the use of this chapelry, in respect of a public house in Chelmorton, called the Duke of York, and lands adjoining. The two annual sums are distributed shortly after they are received, amongst the poor of the respective townships.

Adam Lowe, by his will, in 1801, gave £1 yearly to the poor of Chelmorton and Flagg, out of land lying at Chelmorton. Thomas Lingard, the owner of two pieces of land called the Old Field and the New Piece, which contain about 3½ acres of land, distributes annually, at Christmas, to two poor women at Flagg, 2s. each, and the residue amongst poor persons at Chelmorton.

Rev. Francis Gisborne’s charity, (See Bradley.)—The annual sum of £5 10s. is received by the incumbent, and laid out in coarse woollen cloth or flannel, and distributed to the poor about Christmas.

CHELMORTON TOWNSHIP.

FLAGG TOWNSHIP.

LONGSTONE, (Great) a chapelry, in the parish of Bakewell, which includes the township of Great Longstone, with the hamlet of Holme, the township of Little Longstone, and part of the township of Wardlow, which together contain 4680A. 0R. 23P. of land, and in 1851 has 184 houses and 909 inhabitants, of whom 457 were males, and 452 females.; rateable value £5,097 2s. 3d.

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GREAT LONGSTONE is a large and pleasant village, situated on an eminence, sheltered on the north by a range of lofty hills, 3 miles N.N.W. from Bakewell. It forms a joint township with Holme. The village consists principally of one long street; the houses are mostly built of stone, and covered with thatch, and when viewed from the N.E. present a pleasing appearance. It contains 3,004 acres of land, and in 1851 had 120 houses, and 564 inhabitants, of whom 281 were males, and 283 females; rateable value £3,980 5s. 4d. The Chapel, dedicated to St. Giles, is an ancient stone structure, with nave, chancel, side aisles, and small tower, It contains several monuments to the Eyre family, Earls of Newburgh; the living is a perpetual curacy of the value of £200; the vicar of Bakewell patron; Rev. George Chinnery Tooth, incumbent, who resides at the parsonage, a neat house erected about 1830. Tithes were commuted in 1846, the hay and corn for £72, and lamb and wool £36 17s., and at the inclosure of the Commons in 1820, 24A. 1R. 30P, of land was allotted to the Vicar of Bakewell, in lieu of tithe. The Dean and Chapter of Lichfield are owners of all the tithes except the vicarial. Duke of Devonshire is lord of the manor, and principal owner, which is mostly freehold, the copyhold, small fine certain; William Henry Wright, Esq., is also an owner, with several smaller owners. At the enclosure of this township with Little Longstone and Wardlow townships by an act of 1810, 14 acres of land were awarded in 1824 for the support of a schoolmaster, now let for £10 13s. per annum, to which a bequest of William Wright, in 1656, and an annual contribution of £5 from the Duke of Devonshire, is paid to the master for teaching 20 poor children; the school room was built by subscription, and the master has a house and garden rent free; the Wesleyan Methodists have a small chapel erected in 1842. An ancient stone cross supposed to be the old market cross, stands at the west end of the village. The feast is hold on the first Sunday after the 11th day of September. Longstone Hall, is a large ancient brick mansion, nearly surrounded by trees at the west end of the village, the seat of Miss Elizabeth Carliell, and the property of William Henry Wright, Esq., of Lympstone, Devon, whose family have been possessed of a considerable portion of the land in this place since the reign of Edward III. The family of Rouland, or Roland, had a house and lands here in the fourteenth century, which passed by marriage to the Staffords of Eyam. In the Rolls of Parliament, we find Godfrey Rouland, who styles himself “un pauvre and simple Esquyer,” praying “convenable et hasty remedy” against Sir Thomas Wendesley, John Dean, vicar of Hope, and others who are stated to have come to the petitioners house at Longsden with force and arms, to have carried off goods and stock to the value of 200 marks, to have made the petitioner prisoner, and carried him to the castle of the High Peak, where he was kept in custody six days without victuals or drink; after which they are stated to have cut off his right hand, and then to have released him.

HOLME, a hamlet and joint township with Great Longstone, 3 miles S.S.E. from Longstone, contains 476A. 0R. 12P. of land; the houses are included with the return of Great Longstone; rateable value £1,000 15s. 10d.; the soil on limestone is principally in pasture. Duke of Devonshire is lord of the manor, which is freehold, and principal owner. Holme is situated on the bank of the Wye, north from Bakewell, where are the Lumford Mills, which form a suburb to Bakewell. Holme Hall, an ancient house in the Elizabethan style built in 1626, is the seat and property of Thomas John Gisborne, Esq. At the enclosure allotments were given in lieu of tithes to the vicars of Bakewell and Hope.

LONGSTONE (LITTLE) is a small village and township in the chapelry of Great Long­stone, situated on high ground, 3¼ miles N.N.W. from Bakewell, ½ mile W. from Great Longstone, contains 1006 acres of land, and in 1851 had 29 houses, and 154 inhabitants, of whom 71 were males, and 83 females; rateable value £630. The land is principally on limestone, and occupied as grazing land. The Duke of Devonshire is lord of the manor, which is freehold, and principal owner. William Henry Wright, Esq., and several others are also owners. The Wye on the west flows through a deep vale of singular beauty, called

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Monsal Dale, a fine view of which is obtained from a small Inn, the Bull’s Head, erected upon the Edge stone head, where the Wye is seen rolling its silvery waters from the north, here and there shaded by fine ash trees, until passing beneath a rustic bridge, it soon turns westward, and winding round a bold promontory, is lost to view in this direction; leaving this romantic scene the road passes down a steep declivity on the east side of the Wye, the banks of which are spread with nature’s carpet of richest hues, and form a pleasing contrast to the stupendous mountains on each side, whose venerable heads seem nearly destitute of verdure. “The Wye,” observes a fair author, “seems to have changed its characteristics under the influence of this sylvan vale, and no longer foams over a rocky channel or forces its way through narrow defiles, but expands its glossy surface to the smooth banks of the beautiful meadow land that divides it from the base of the mountain. Two or three rustic dwellings in harmony with the scene diversify the level of the valley; they are shaded by the finest ash trees that grow in Derbyshire, whilst their descendants grace the rising hills in little groups, and single trees, and throw their shadows on the green bright turf from whence they spring! The mountains rising above them, from which the rocks start in light pinnacles, or rounded turrets! The shining ivy at all seasons of the year decking their silvery sides with its evergreen beauty. The river after having spread itself in beautiful expanse, winds eastward out of the dale: its termination hidden by the projecting head land across the broadest part of the river, the very sort of bridge that unites with the features of the scene communicates with the opposite bank: large blocks of native marble tagged together by their own inequalities, through the apertures of which the water glides, their surface blanched by the sun, and polished by the frequent overflow of the rapid stream, their little hollows and interstices covered with moss of the greenest hue; and the impetuous Wye even there in its chosen repose, fretting and bubbling around them, as if to resent its interruption. In the provincialism of the county these stones are called (lepping) leaping stones, thirty-two of which form this rustic bridge. The sweet solitude of this valley, this Derbyshire Temple, has no gloomy abstraction. A fine road leads down the side of the mountain, and continues along the dale, meeting the course of the river; few would choose to descend its steep declivity in a carriage, but no one would regret alighting to walk with such objects around. The most seducing quietness pervades the soft domain; the water steals along so gently, that scarcely a murmur meets the ear; the birds select it for their early nests; the lambs sport upon its narrow sheltered meadows; in its bright waters the heavy fleeces of their dams are washed, and upon the banks, one who loves the calm and quiet recreation, that in which old Isaac Walton most delighted, may there be seen in solitary enjoyment. I cannot imagine that any stranger who first surveys the pastoral beauties of Monsal Dale from the heights above, its deep yet smiling seclusion, but feels a passing thought, if not a wish to become a resident, for there the fury passions of mankind sink to rest, and all the gentle ones are soothed to balmy happiness.” The Dale contains three farm houses and three cottages, and on the north is closed by a lofty mountain at the foot of which is Cressbrook Cotton Mills, in Litton township. William and James Longsdon, Esqrs., have both neat residences here; the family have resided and had considerable property in this locality several centuries, and are descended from Matthew a son of Thomas, rector of Bakewell, who settled at Longstone previous to the reign of Edward I., and was called “De Parva Longsdon,” and his posterity afterwards Longsdan. The tithes were commuted in 1846, on hay and corn £48, and lamb and wool £10, which belongs to the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield, and at the inclosure of the Common in 1820, 6A. 3R. 8P. of land was set apart in lieu of the vicarial tithes. This manor was purchased by the Countess of Shrewsbury, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and the almshouse erected by her at Derby is endowed with £100 issuing out of it. The Inde­pendents have a small handsome stone chapel here, erected in 1844. The Feast is held at the same time as Great Longstone.

WARDLOW, township and small village in the chapelry of Great Longstone, and partly in the parish of Hope, 5 miles N.N.W. from Bakewell, and 2 miles E. by S. from Tides-

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well; the entire township contains 620A. 0R. 23P. of land, and in 1851 had 35 houses, and 191 inhabitants; 65 inhabitants are in Bakewell parish, and 22 houses and 126 inhabitants in Hope parish; of the population 105 were males, and 86 females; rateable value, £486 16s. 11d. The Bakewell portion of land is 225A. 0R. 7P. of the rateable value of £196 3s. 3d. The Duke of Devonshire is principal owner and lord of the manor, in which only a small portion is copyhold, held on small fine certain. It is a bleak and naked district, having no edge rows and very few trees, principally occupied as dairy farms; the land rising gently from the village to a bold eminence at the S.W. end of the township. A Sunday school was erected here in 1835, in which divine service is occasionally performed by the perpetual curate of Longstone. On making a turnpike road through the village in 1759, a circular heap of stones was opened, in which were found the remains of 17 human bodies entombed within stone coffins, apparently got from a quarry about 1 mile distant; but of the deposit nothing is known. Anthony Lingard who murdered Hannah Oliver, by strangling her, after suffering the extreme penalty of the law, was hung in chains, near this village, April 1st, 1815. The Feast is held the first Sunday after September the 11th.

Wardlow Heys is a portion of land let off in gates at stated rentals to the inhabitants for the feeding of sheep and cattle.

Wardlow Mires, a district which contains about 25 inhabitants, is partly situated within the hamlets of Great Hucklow, Litton, and Wardlow in Hope parish.

GREAT LONGSTONE.

CHARITIES.—Rev. Frances Gisborne’s Charity.—(See Bradley.)—The annual sum of £5 10s. for the chapelry, is received and laid out by the Incumbent, in coarse woollen cloth and flannel, which is distributed amongst the poor in the chapelry.

Rowland Eyre, Esq., of Hassop, as stated on an inscription in Longstone chapel, dated 1624, among other charities, gave 20s. to the poor of Great Longstone, to be paid three days before Christmas, and three days before Easter. The steward of Col. Leslie now pays the 20s., which is distributed on St. Thomas’s day.

William Wrtght, by will of 1656, gave 40s. yearly to 40 of the poorest people in Great Longstone, for ever, to be paid on St. Thomas’s day; £5 yearly to be paid to ten of the poorest male children in Great Longstone, to every one of them 10s. to pay for learning where they should like best; 30s. yearly for the maintenance of divine service in the chapel of Great Longstone; 10s. to the poor of Ashford; and 10s, to the poor of Wardlow, to be issuing out of his estate at Wardlow. The owner of the estate now pays the above sums. Divine service for some time has been omitted, but the present minister proposes to perform the service on St. Thomas’s day, and claim the 30s. in future. £5 to the male children is paid to the master of Longstone school for ten poor children.

Thomas Wright, Esq., of Great Longstone, left the interest of £22 10s. to be given as a dole to the poor of Great Longstone and Holme, on the Purification of the Blessed Virgin. This sum is lent on a security of the turnpike road from Chesterfield to Hernstone-­lane-head, at 5 per cent. interest. The sum of £1 2s. 6d. per annum as interest, is distributed on Candlemas day, by the chapelwardens to poor persons of the township, of which Holme forms a part.

Captain Henry Wright, of Ballybough Bridge, in the county of Dublin, by will, 1762, after giving to his nephew Thomas Wright, of Longstone, Derbyshire, and if he should die before the age of 21, or have no children, to the youngest son of his good friend George Venables, Lord Vernon, all his bills and bonds subject to the payment of his debts, funeral expenses, and legacies bequeathed as follows:—“it is my desire that a sufficient sum be taken out of my fortune as will completely clothe three poor old men, and three poor old women of the parish of Longstone, with a shilling, and great coat, facing them of different

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colour; on the 29th September, for ever. I also give 12 sixpenny loaves and sixpence in money to 12 old house-keepers, inhabitants of Longstone, with two pounds of beef each, on the 1st of January for ever.” A sum of £500 was set aside and was for many years in the hands of Lord Vernon, by whom complete suits of clothing were provided for three poor men, and three women of Great Longstone, but it does not appear the other direc­tions were complied with; about the year 1810, a copy of the donor’s will was obtained from Ireland, and applications on their behalf were made to Lord Vernon, and to his brother the present Archbishop of York, who had become the residuary legatee under the will; the Archbishop being desirous of fulfilling the donor’s intentions, and of applying the £500 in the purchase of lands to be secured to the charity. By indenture dated 7th June, 1824, a farm at Aston Edge, in the parish of Hope, was conveyed to John Thomas Wright, of Lympston, in Devonshire, and James Longsdon, of Longstone, and their heirs, 44 acres of land with farm house, outbuildings, for the sum of £725 in trust for the objects of the above charity. The sum of £151 10s. 11d, required to make up the purchase and expenses, was made up by several of the inhabitants who joined in a promissory note; at the time of our investigation the sum of £120 still remained on the note. When the whole sum is paid it is proposed all the objects specified in Captain Wright’s will be carried into effect. The rent of the farm at Aston Edge is £28 16s. per annum, and the trustees appoint the objects of the charity, and audit the accounts.

Holme Meal Charity. (See Bakewell), one moiety of a payment of five pecks and one eighth of oatmeal to be paid weekly. Instead of a weekly distribution of oatmeal, an annual payment equal thereto is made, such moiety being received from the agent of the Duke of Devonshire by the overseers of the poor of this township, is laid out in the pur­chase of oatmeal, and distributed once a week during five or six weeks, usually in January and February.

Great Longstone School is said to have been erected about the year 1787, with a house for the master, and a small garden. On the enclosure of lands by an act of parliament passed in 1810, for Great and Little Longstone, and Wardlow, the commissioners were required to allot so much of the wastes in Great and Little Longstone, as in their judgment should be equal to the clear yearly value of £10 which allotment should be vested in the Most Noble William Duke of Devonshire, and nine others, including the curate, for the time being, on trust, to apply the rents for the benefit of a school-master within the townships of Great and Little Longstone. The commissioners by their award in 1824, allotted to the trustees on Great Longstone common, 11A. 3R. of land, and 2A. 2R. on Little Longstone common, both of which are let for £9 a-year; they also allotted in respect of the school, 22 perches now let for 13s. The trustees pay the rents to the schoolmaster. The master also receives £5 per annum from the donation of William Wright, out of an estate at Wardlow; and a voluntary gift of £5 per annum from the Duke of Devonshire, and he instructs 25 poor children appointed by the trustees.

LITTLE LONGSTONE.—Ralph Rider, by will, 1709, gave to hit wife Mary, the house at Monyash in which he dwelt, with two little closes of land called Dowsaslacke and Bux­ton-lane-Pingle, for her life; and after her death he gave the reversion:—one moiety to the poor people of Monyash, and the other moiety to the poor of Little Longstone, to be dis­posed of to them by the overseers of the poor of the respective places for ever; who were to let the places on 2nd February, yearly. The building being in a dilapidated state, was about 1813, removed by the tenant who pays £8 per annum rent, of which the moiety is distributed here in small sums amongst the poor on Candlemas day.

William Wright’s donation of the annual sum of 10s. is paid from his estate at Wardlow, and distributed by the chapelwardens, amongst the poor of this township.

WARDLOW.— William Wright’s donation, (See Great Longstone). The annual sum of 10s. is paid out of his estate here, which is distributed by the principal inhabitants to the poor on Christmas day.

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LONGSTONE (GREAT), WITH HOLME TOWNSHIP.

Poet Office, at John Lowe’s; letters arrive from Bakewell, at 9.30 a.m.; and are despatched at 5.30 p.m.

Those marked * are in Holme.

LONGSTONE (LITTLE) TOWNSHIP.

WARDLOW TOWNSHIP.

Those marked * are in Hope Parish.

MONYASH, with One Ash, a scattered township, and ancient village and chapelry, 5 miles W. from Bakewell, 13 miles N. from Ashbourn, in a low situation at the cross of the Ashbourn and Bakewell and the Taddington and Longnor roads. It is a compact

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village, built with stone, chiefly roofed with slate, and contains 3,001A. 2R. 12P. of freehold land, and in 1851, had 103 houses, and 473 inhabitants, of whom 248 were males and 225 females; rateable value £2,027 1s. 8d. Robert Henry Cheney, Esq., of Sheffnall, Salop, is lord of the manor and considerable owner. The Duke of Devonshire, Jno. Melland, Esq. Stephen Melland, Esq., Mr. Jas. Bridden, Mr. Thos. Blore, Mrs. Green, and Mr. Moses Tunni­cliff, are also owners. It is printipally on limestone, and on the high land poor and cold; yet superior management has effected much here, and good turnips and other produce are grown with advantage. The Church, St. Leonard’s, is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Bakewell, and in the peculiar jurisdiction of the dean and chapter of Lichfield, value £104. It has been augmented with £200 benefactions. and £1,200 Queen Anne’s bounty. The vicar of Bakewell, patron; Rev. Henry Charles Smith, B.A., incumbent, who has 76A. 0R. 6P. of glebe land. The Church is an ancient structure, with side aisles and a square tower, containing three bells, surmounted with an octagonal spire, which rises to a considerable height, and is seen at a great distance. The Duke of Rutland receives the large tithe, about £45. At the enclosure, land was allotted for the lamb and wool. About the year 1200, Robert de Salocia, and Matthew de Eston were lords of this manor, called Manies. William de Lynford, described as the King’s valet, obtained a grant of a market on Tuesday, and a fair for three days, at the festival of the Holy Trinity, in his manor of Moniash. The manor, at a later period, belonged to the Earls of Shrewsbury. On the death of Lord Gilbert, in 1616, his great estates in Derbyshire descended to his daughters and coheiresees, Mary, wife of William, Earl of Pembroke; Elizabeth, wife of Henry, Earl of Kent; and Alathea, wife of Thomas, Earl of Arundel. In the year 1640, Philip, Earl of Pembroke being possessed of two of these shares, sold them to John Shallcross, Esq., who, in 1646, resold them to Thomas Gladwin, Esq., of Tupton Hall. The grand­daughters and coheiresses of Gladwin brought this estate in moieties to Sir Talbot Clarke, and Dr. Henry Bourne. In 1721, the Clarkes sold one-third of this manor, and Dr. Bourne, in 1736, another one-third, to Edward Cheney, Esq. In 1735, Mr. Cheney had purchased the remaining third of John Gilbert, Esq., of Lockoe. Mr. Gilbert possessed it by devise, from the Savilles, who had purchased it in 1638, of Henry, Earl of Kent. Monyash chapel was originally founded as a chantry chapel, about the year 1200, by Robert de Salocia, and Matthew de Eston, who endowed it with lands for the celebration of Divine service on Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. In the year 1280, Archbishop Peckham ordained that, in addition to the lands given by the inhabitants at the foundation, they should add one mark, and that the dean and chapter of Lichfield should pay the remainder. It also appears that a chantry was fonnded here by Nicholas Conyson and his brother, which, in the reign of Edward VI., was valued at £3 6s. 3d. per annum. In the church are me­morials to Thomas Cheney, Esq., of Ashford, dated 1723, father of Edward Cheney, Esq., and to the families of Sheldon and Palfreman. The markets and fairs have long been disused. The market was held on Thursday, and fairs on the Saturday preceding the second Tuesday in February, the 14th of May, the Monday before the second Wednesday in September, and the 19th of October. Two Great Barmote courts are held at the Bull’s Head, annually, viz., the first Tuesday in April, and first Tuesday in October, at which all pleas of debts and disputes as to title relating to lead mines within the hundred of High Peak are determined. C. S. B. Busby, Esq., of Chesterfield, steward of the court; Jas. Longsdon,. Esq., of Little Longstone, bar-master. John Grattan, who died in 1711,. left a cottage and some ground adjoining, to the Society of Friends, which was converted into a Meeting house with a grave-yard; it is vested in trustees, and has lately been consid­erably altered and improved. The Primitive Methodists have a small chapel, erected in 1835. In 1750, a school house was erected by subscription, and at the enclosure in 1771, award signed 1776, 14 acres of land were allotted as an endowment to the school, producing £18 17s. 6d., but there are 20A. 2R. 17P. of land belongs the school now in the occupation of the master, for which 16 poor children are instructed. In the village, is an ancient stone Cross. Feast, first Sunday after St. Martin.

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One Ask Grange, a manor and large farm, exceeding 800 acres, nearly one mile S.W. from Monyash, the property of the Duke of Devonshire; is occupied by Mr. Henry Bowman, whose ancestors removed here about 1698, from Westwood Hall, near Leek, Staffordshire. The house is situated in a retired hollow, near the head of the Lathkill Dale, noted for the beautiful scenery of the banks. The river Lathkill rises at the base of a lofty over-hanging mountain, and within a cavernous opening, only 16 inches in height and 4 feet wide; after passing this orifice by crawling on the belly, it soon becomes an extensive arched cavern. This manor, Aneise of Domesday, was given to Roche Abbey in Yorkshire, by William Avenell, lord of Haddon. After the Reformation it seems to have been given to the Shrewsbury family. Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury sold it in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, to Sir Thomas Gargrave. Summerhill, a large pleasant farm, ¾ mile S.W. from Monyash, with plantations near, is the property of Mr. Bowman. The hills and whole district have a bleak appearance, there being no hedge rows; the partition fences, dry stone walling without any mortar. In Rucklow Dale, are some extensive quarries of grey marble, of which blocks of almost any size can be obtained; it is much admired for its variegated surface. It is noted in Domesday book that Oneash was considered as a penal settlement to which refractory monks were sent, and where a peculiar species of Monk’s rhubarb has lately been found, which has been sent to various places.

CHARITIES.—Monyash School—The inhabitants of Monyash being desirous to have a sohool, andas a means for this object, and to provide a salary for the master, conveyed to Edward Cheney, the lord of the manor, divers small pieces of land of the common ground, which had been inclosed, for the sum of £75, which was deposited with William Goodwin in 1799, he previously having had £200 subscriptions from the Duke of Devonshire, and others, in his hands. The lord of the manor, with the consent of the freeholders, set out a piece of waste ground in the centre of the village, containing 30 yards by 20, lying before the ancient pool, on which it was determined to build the school, and that a salary of £10 a-year should be raised for the master, who should instruct all the children of the legal poor of Monyash, in the English tongue, writing, and arithmetic; the master to be appoin­ted by the trustees then named. By an inclosure, at which it had been agreed land to the value of £6 per annum should be awarded to the school. In 1766, the commissioners set out 14A. 32P. to the school, which with two small fields, containing about an acre, said to be the Rake Lane allotment, and a field, rather more than an acre, which George Goodwin, who died in 1782, left to the school, (added to which is a small plot of land purchased for £7 by the trustees with a part of Hugh Goodwin’s bequest, for which interest is paid,) let for £18 17s. 6d. The schoolmaster instructs 16 poor boys and girls in reading and writing.

Ralph Rider’s charity, (See Little Longstone.) The annual sum of £4 is received by the overseers from this gift, and is distributed to the poor with others.

John Bartholomew, in 1720, gave the widows and fatherless children of Monyash 20s. yearly, charged on the Hill’s close, to be divided on the feasts of St. Thomas and the Purification.

George Goodwin, in 1724, gave to poor persons who had no weekly pay, 10s. a-year, to be divided by his executors, which he charged on the Wheat Lands, now the property of Henry Barker, Esq., whose tenant pays the 10s. to the overseers, which is distributed with others.

Hugh Goodwin, in 1825, gave the interest of £10 to be distributed to poor persons of this township. A part of this has been expended in the school land, for which 5s. interest is paid; the remaining portion does not appear to be accounted for. This, with the above sums, is distributed on Candlemas-day amongst the poor

Rev. Francis Gisborne’s charity, (See Bradley.) The annual sum of £5 10s., received by the incumbent, is laid out in coarse woollen and flannel cloth, which he distributes to the poor about Christmas.

Thomas Palfreyman, of Crag Hall, Cheshire, gave, on the 14th November, 1823, £100, to be laid out in land, the yearly interest to be given to the poor of Monyash; also a

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further sum of £5 5s. to erect a tablet in the chapel, mentioning the particulars and where the land is purchased. Thomas Bateman, Esq., of Middleton, near Youlgreave, received the above sums from Miss Elizabeth Palfreyman, sister of the donor, who died in January, 1824, and was buried at Monyash. The money was placed in the savings’ bank at Bakewell. At the time of our enquiry, February, 1827, was about to view a field on sale, for its investment. About Christmas, 1825, a year and a half’s interest was received, and distributed in flannel and cloth with Gisborne’s charity.

SHELDON, township, chapelry, and small village in an open district, 3 miles W. from Bakewell, contains 1061A. 1R. 31P. of land inclusive of 70A. 3R. 15P. woods, &c., and 26 acres of roads; and in 1851 had 48 houses and 197 inhabitants, of whom 89 were males and 108 females; rateable value £948 10s. The Duke of Devonshire is lord of the manor and principal owner, which is partly copyhold. The Chapel is a small ancient edifice with turret and one bell, situated in the centre of the road passing through the village, dedicated to All Saints. The living, a perpetual curacy united with Chelmorton, vicar of Bakewell patron; has been augmented with £200 benefactions, £600 Queen Anne’s bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and is in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean aud Chapter of Lich­field. The Duke of Devonshire gave about half an acre of land for a burying ground, which was consecrated in 1853; it is situated a little east from the Church. This was from an early period part of the manor of Ashford. Griffin, son of Wenonwyn, alienated it in the reign of Henry III. to Geoffrey de Pickeford; it was afterwards re-united to Ashford, and was a chapel of ease to Bakewell. The tithes were commuted in 1847. The Primi­tive Methodists have a small chapel here, erected in 1848.

CHARITIES.—Mary Frost, by a codicil to her will, 1755, gave to three trustees and their executors, £200 on trust, to be placed on the best security, and to expend one moiety in binding out apprentice one or more of the poorest boys of Sheldon to some honest trade; and the other moiety in binding out in like manner, boys of the parish of Chapel-­en-le-Frith; for particulars of which see that parish. The £100 applicable to Sheldon, remained in the hands of William Bossley, and that also of his son Mr. Alexander Bossley, who died in 1826; since which his executors have made out an account by which it appears the sum of £212 is due to the charity of Sheldon, 4 per cent, interest having been allowed for the money from 1774 to 1827, and 25 apprentices had been put out with premiums of £4 each. It is proposed to lay out £193 15s. of the above sum in the purchase of land in the parish of Tideswell, producing a rent of £7 15s. per annum, to be convoyed to new trustees; the perpetual curate to employ the rents agreeable to the donor’s will.

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Rev. Francis Gisborne’s charity, (See Bradley.)—The annual sum of £5 10s. is received by the incumbent, which he lays out in coarse woollen and flannel, and distributes it to the poor about Christmas.

TADDINGTON AND PRIESTCLIFFE form a joint township and chapelry, with Blackwell township annexed, together contain 2855 acres of land, principally limestone, and in 1851 had 117 houses and 488 inhabitants, of whom 248 were males and 240 females; rateable value £1890.

TADDINGTON is a considerable, and ancient village on the Bakewell and Buxton road, 4 miles S. from Tideswell. The Church, St. Michael’s, a perpetual curacy, certified value £10 10s., now £90, has been augmented with £800 Queen Anne’s bonnty and £800 parliamentary grant, and is in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield. It is a small neat structure, with a spire, situated in a field on the north side the village. The vicar of Bakewell, patron, and Rev. Wm. Hy. Hugall incumbent, who resides in the parsonage, a neat residence near the church, erected by the late Rev John Henry Coke, in 1840. William de Hamilton died seized of a third part of the manor of Taddington, in 1286. It is now considered as parcel of the Queen’s manor of High, Peak, on lease to the Duke of Devonshire. The following are scattered farms :—Taddington Field is a large farm, the residence and property of Mr. Wm. Bagshaw. Five Wells, 1½ miles W. Wheel, Upper and Nether, 1 mile S.E. from Taddington. Col. Leslie is the principal, owner and lord of the manor. Lord Denman, Mr. Wm. Clay, Mr. Wm. Bagshaw, Messrs. Wm, and Geo. Wilkinson, James Beech, Esq., Mr. James Redfern, and Tideswell school are consider­able owners. Here is a small Wesleyan chapel, erected in 1833.

PREISTCLIFFE, or PRESTLEY, is a small village, 1 mile N. from Taddington, consisting principally of farm-houses, and Priestcliffe Ditch, a farm 1 mile W. Here are many small freeholders. On the western side of the lofty conical hill of Priestcliffe, in a dark coloured ferruginous soil, are found a few quartz crystals similar to the Buxton diamonds.

CHARITIES.—Michael White, by will, 1789, gave £15 a year, for ever, for the instruc­tion of 12 poor children of the liberty of Taddington, in reading, writing, and accounts, and 40s. a year to be distributed amongst the most needy persons of the township, on the 24th of December, yearly, for ever, and he charged all his lands in Taddington with the payment. By indenture, 1799, Alice White and Martha White, sisters, and devisees in fee, of the said Michael White, granted to John Bateman and four others, and their heirs, a rent-charge of £17 per annum, to be issuing out of certain lands in Tnddington, on trust to pay £15 part thereof for instructing 12 poor children of the township, or some of the neighbouring parishes, in the principles of the Church of England, the boys to read, write, and cast accounts, and the girls to read, knit, and work plain work; and to divide the residue £2 amongst the most necessitous poor born within the township. The premises subjected to this deed are now the property of the descendents of the late John Bateman. Of the rent charge £15 is paid to the schoolmaster elected by the trustees, who instructs 12 poor children of Taddington and Priestcliffe, and the remaining £2 is distributed at Christmas amongst poor persons of Taddington. A school was erected by subscription in Taddington, about 1805.

William Higgingbottom and Ellen his wife, as stated on a benefaction table in the chapel, gave 10s. a year to the poor of the liberty of Taddington, to be paid out of the

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lands called Tym’s crofts. We are informed that Ellen had only a life interest in the land, and was incapable of creating any permanent charge thereon; and that 5s. is now distributed amongst the poor of the township.

Charles Hayward, in 1773, left 5s. to the poor of Taddington, to be distributed in bread, on the 4th of January, for ever; to be paid out of certain housing and lands in Taddington; 5s. is distributed yearly on account of this charity.

Rev. Francis Gisborne’e Charity.—(See Bradley).—The annual sum of £5 10s., received by the incumbent, for this charity, is laid out in purchasing coarse woollen cloth and flannel, and distributed to the poor about Christmas.

Rev. Roger Wilkson of Wormhill, in 1714, gave all his lands at Biggin, in the parish of Hartington, for the benefit of a free school, for maintaining a schoolmaster to teach gratis all the family of Wilkson that shall reside at Taddington, or in the parishes of Bakewell and Tideswell; and for 10 more poor children in Priestcliffe, Taddington, Blackwell, and Brushfield; to trustees, on trust, after the death of his wife, and. after all his legacies were discharged, to raise so much money as would make his land at Biggin worth £20 a year for ever, for the use of the above, provided the curate be not schoolmaster; and further, “it is my will, that if there be any of the Wilksons qualified for masters they may be chosen before any other; and I also bequeath £3 a year for a schoolmaster at Wormhill, that shall be elected by the said trustees of Priestcliffe school.” By indentures dated May, 1715, John Buxton, in consideration of £445 paid by Elizabeth Wilkson, widow of the donor, conveyed a messuage and outbuildings in Chelmorton, containing 37A, 3R. 24P. which, together with copyhold premises in Biggin, containing 6 acres, were surrendered by the donor to the uses of his will, at a court at Hartington, holden 24th Oct., 1691. Mr. George Wilkson, the late schoolmaster, was at a court holden at Hartington, 19th Oct., 1820, admitted to the lands at Biggin, in trust for the school, being 7A. 2R. 2P., an allotment on Alsop Moor having been added was let for £1 a year. The freehold estate at Chelmorton comprises a house and outbuildings in the village with 65A. 0R. 25P. of land of which 27A. 1R. 4P. was an allotment made under the Chelmorton enclosure act, about 1821, exclusive of 7A, 2P. sold for the payment of expenses. These premises had been let on lease, for 21 years, by the schoolmaster for £60 per annum, now said to be worth £70. The annual value thereof is about £80 per annum. Mr. Geo. Wilkson, the late school­master, received the rents, against whom an information was filed in the court of Chancery, in 1804. This suit was settled in 1846 against the late Mr. Geo. Wilkson, and in 1847 a handsome school with a house for the master was erected of limestone; it is now taught on the National plan. There are 30 free scholars.

Rev. Roger Wilkson, also by his will, gave to his two nephews Jno. and Wm. Wilkson, and their heirs certain lands, and he charged the land he had given to John with 8d. every Lord’s-day, and the land given to William 4d, every Lord’s-day, when the land should come into their hands, to be laid out in twelve-penny worth of white bread every Sunday. The weekly sums of 8d. and 4d. are respectively paid in respect of tho above lands. Four three-penny loaves are sent every Sunday to Taddington chapel and given to four poor persons attending divine service.

BLACKWELL is a small scattered village and township, in Taddington chapelry, 4 miles S.W. from Tideswell, 7 miles W.N.W. from Bakewell, forms a romantic district on lime­stone, contains about 1000 acre of land, and in 1851 had 10 houses and 28 inhabitants, of whom 11 were males and 17 females; rateable value £715. Duke of Devonshire is lord of the manor, and owner of nearly all the township. This manor was given by William Peverel to the priory of Lenton, in Nottinghamshire, in the reign of Henry I. It appears by Pope Nicholas’s Valor, that the manor consisted of four Oxgangs of land, then valued at £1 5s. per annum. This manor was granted in 1552, to Sir William Cavendish. In 1641 it was included in the Earl of Newcastle’s estates, and then valued at £306 0s. 4d. There was another manor in Blackwell, which was the property and residence for several generations of the ancient family of Blackwall, the last of whom having become greatly

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involved in debt, an extent was issued at the suit of the crown, in the reign of Charles II, for the enormous sum of £130,632 7s. 10d. The manor was seized and granted to the family of Hope. Lady Margaret Hope, daughter of the Earl of Haddington, was possessed of it in 1702—now both belong to his Grace the Duke of Devonshire.

Directory.—Arthur H. Heathcote, gent., The Cottage, Miss Grace Wright, and the Farmers are Thos. Frost, John Heathcote, Hall Green, John Smith, and John Webster.

TADDINGTON AND PRIESTCLIFFE TOWNSHIP.

Post Office, at Mrs. Elizabeth Hibbert’s; letters arrive from Bakewell at 1.30 p.m., and are despatched at 4.30 p.m.

Those marked 1 reside at Priestcliffe; 2, Priestcliffe Ditch; the rest at Taddington, ­or, where specified.