BOLSOVER is a large parish, and contains the townships of Bolsover and Glapwell, which together, comprise 5441A. 3R. 4P. of land, mostly a strong clay, with some limestone soil, abounding in coal and ironstone, and in 1851 had 378 houses and 1611 inhabitants, of whom 846 were males and 765 females; rateable value £5328 0s. 5d.

BOLSOVER is a large village, township, and decayed market town, situated on one of the highest points in the county, 6 miles, E. from Chesterfield, 24 miles N.N.E. from Derby, 8 miles N.W. from Mansfield, and 145½ N. by W. from London. It contains 4702A. 1R. 5P. of land, and in 1851 had 357 houses and 1512 inhabitants, of whom 792 were males and 720 females; rateable value £4665 6s. 3d. The Duke of Portland is principal owner and lord of the manor, which is copyhold; and a court is held every three weeks at the Swan Inn. Thos. Walkden, Esq., steward. Earl Bathurst, the Duke of Devonshire, and others are also owners. The Church, (St. Mary) a vicarage, valued in the King’s book £5 19s. 4d., now £111., has been augmented with £200 benefactions, £400 Queen Anne’s bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant. The Duke of Portland is patron and impropriator. Rev. John Hamilton Gray, M.A., Rural Dean, incumbent. The Church is a large structure, partly in the Norman style, intermixed with the early English, with a tower surmounted with a short spire. It was given by Wm. Peverel to Darley Abbey, and confirmed by Wm. de Ferrars, Earl of Derby; it was afterwards appropriated to that monastry. The Earl of Oxford gave £10 per annum as an augmentation of the vicarage, in 1716. Attached to the south aisle is a mortuary chapel belonging to the Cavendish family, and contans two monuments to the members of that family, one of which, in the Gothic style, is to the memory of Sir Charles Cavendish, who died in 1617, and has his effigy in armour, recumbent on a mat, under an enriched arch, supported by Corinthian columns. Underneath is a recumbent figure of his lady, the heiress of Cuthbert Lord Ogle, and beneath her are the effigies of their children in kneeling postures. The costly marble monument of Henry Duke of Newcastle, who died in 1691, has a marble sarcophagus supported on each side by Corinthian columns; it commemorates also Frances, Duchess of Newcastle, who died in 1695; Margaret, their daughter, wife of John Holles, Duke of Newcastle, who died 1716; Sir Charles Cavendish, brother of the first Duke of Newcastle; and Charles Viscount Mansfield, the Duke’s eldest son, who died in his lifetime.

In April, 1854, the vault under these remarkable monuments was opened to receive the remains of the late Duke of Portland, he makes the fourteenth inhabitant of this family mausoleum. The others are, first, Sir Charles Cavendish, died 1617; second Catherine, Baroness Ogle, his wife; third, Sir Charles Cavendish, their second son, died 1658; fourth, Charles Cavendish, Viscount Mansfield, eldest son of the Marquis of Newcastle, died 1659; fifth, Henry Cavendish, second Duke of Newcastle, died 1691, sixth, Frances Pierrepont, his Duchess, died 1695; seventh, Margaret Cavendish, their daughter and heiress, wife of William Hollis, Duke of Newcastle, she died in 1718, and her funeral was the last occasion on which this vault was opened, until the interment of the late Duke of Portland, who was her great, great, grandson and heir. The six other

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bodies contained within the vault are those of infants of various generations of the family.

In the chancel is the tomb of Huntington Smithson, architect, who died in 1648; with other memorials to the Woolhouse family, and Barkers of Norton Lees Hall, Lady Barker, relic of the late Sir Robert Barker, Bart., the last of this family, and heiress of Brabazon Hallowes, Esq. was buried at Bolsover, in 1806. The most ancient and remark­able object in the Church is a carved stone over the chancel door, representing the Crucifixion; it was pronounced by the Archeological Association, on their visit to Bolsover, in 1851, to be Saxon, “pre-Norman.” In the Church is an ancient sculptured stone, placed within the rails of the communion table; it is five feet long by three feet wide, and was discovered in the early part of the last century, previous to which it had been a step to the north door of the Church. On the under side of this stone is a rude sculpture in high relief, representing the nativity of our Saviour. The Virgin Mary appears to be sitting in a stable, with a multilated figure of the infant Jesus in her lap, who seems to have had one hand on a dove, three figures standing round the Virgin mother are most-likely the wise men of the east, who fell down and worshiped the infant Jesus, and opening their treasures presented him with gifts, gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Two camels’ heads are looking over into the manger, and the great projection of them seems very singular; the style of the drapery and other parts of the sculpture seem to attribute it to the 12th or 13th century, and it then was most likely an altar piece and held in high estimation. From the situation in which it was found, it probably was put there as a place of safety, during some of the frequent attacks which were made on Bolsover Castle.

The vicarage is a small house near the Church. There was a market at Bolsover as early as the year 1225, which was discontinued about the middle of the last century; but fairs are held on the last Friday in April and first Friday in October, for cattle and cheese, and a statues for servants is held on the first of October. The Wesleyan Methodists and Independents have each chapels here. In 1855 a National school for boys and girls was erected here in the Gothic style of architecture; it is a neat stone building, with a master’s house attached. The parish was enclosed under an act passed 1777, and the award signed in 1780. Feast second Sunday in August.

The manor Belesover, which belonged to Leurie, was at the Domesday survey, held by Robert under William Peverel. It is probable that Peveril afterwards held it in demesne, and built a castle; for long after the forfeiture of this estate by Wm. Peveril the younger, for poisoning Ralph, Earl of Chester, in 1153, Bolsover castle is mentioned as being given with the manor by Richard I. in 1189, to his brother John, on his marriage with one of the Earl of Glocester’s co-heiresses. On the agreement entered into between Longchamp, the Bishop of Ely, and John, the king’s brother, then Earl of Morteyne, during Richard’s absence in the Holy Land, Bolsover Castle was committed to the custody of Richard del Pec. Two years after John’s accession, Geoffrey Luttrel was appointed one of the overseers of the expenditure of £30, for enclosing Bolsover Park for the King. In 1204, the government of this castle was given to William Briuere; Bryan de Lisle was appointed governor in 1207; Nicholas de Chevat in 1208. In the year 1215, it was in the possession of the rebellious barons, when William Ferrars, Earl of Derby, having raised troops for the king, took it by assault, and in recompense was appointed governor. The same year Byran de Lisle was reinstated in his government, and in 1216 received a mandate to fortify the castle against the rebellious barons, or if he found it not tenable to demolish it. The same year the King appointed Gerard de Furnival to reside in Bolsover castle, with his wife and family, for the better preservation of the peace of those parts. William Ferrers, Earl of Derby, was again appointed governor by King Henry III., soon after his accession (in October, 1216), and held the government for six years. During the twelve following years there was a quick succession of governors. In or about the year 1234, the manor and castle of Bolsover were granted to John Scot, Earl of Chester, who, dying without issue, it passed to Ada, his fourth sister and co-heiress who married Henry de Hastings, Lord of Bergavenny, having been assigned as part of

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her portion in 1236. Other lands having been given in exchange to Hastings, 1243, Bols­over reverted to the crown and was not afterwards in possession of a subject till 1514. Roger de Lovetot was made governor in 1253. Ralph Pipard was appointed governor of Bolsover and Hareston castle for life, in 1301; he died in 1308. Sir Richard Surry died seized of the castle and manor in 1395; Edmund of Hadbam, Earl of Richmond, father of King Henry VII. died seized of it in 1456. King Henry VIII. in 1514, granted Bolsover and Hareston castles to Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, in reward for his service in the expedltion against France, to be held by the service of one knight’s fee, but on the attainder of his son, the second Duke, in the 38th year of the same monarch, they reverted to the crown. King Edward VI. in 1552, granted a lease of the manor of Bolsover to Sir John Byron, for fifty years, and the next year granted the fee to George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, in whose family it continued till 1613, when Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury sold the the manor of Bolsover to Sir Charles Cavendish. Henry, second Duke of Newcastle, grandson of Sir Charles, dying without issue, the estate became the property of Margaret, his sister, who had married John Hollis, Earl of Clare, afterwards Duke of Newcastle, their daughter married Harley, Earl of Oxford, from whom by a daughter also, Bolsover was conveyed to the Bentincks, Dukes of Portland, in whose possession it still continues. Long before this the old castle had been in ruins, for we find in the time of Leland (about 1550) this ancient fortress was fast decaying. It was purchased by Sir Charles Cavendish, when it was in ruins and now not a vestige of it remains. The present mansion was rebuilt from the foundations of the old one, by Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, whose passion for castle building is well known, and was completed by her son, Sir Charles Cavendish, in 1613, after which it was transferred to him by the Shrewshury family. Thc new castle was built exactly on the foundation of the Norman keep, which can be distinctly traced, and the character of a Norman castle was preserved throughout, so that it is a remarkable specimen of the Elizabethan restoration of an ancient Norman castle of the times immediately succeeding the conquest. The Bailey Wall, also was restored, on its exact original position and is one of the very few specimens of the Bailey Wall, of a fortress now existing in England, and as such it is an object of great interest to antiquarians. Sir Charles Cavendish died about two years after he had completed it, and was succeeded by his elder son, William, who, at the age of 15, was made Knight of the Bath; in 1620, created Baron Ogle and Viscount Mansfield; in 1628, Baron Cavendish of Bolsover, and Marquis of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; and in 1644, Baron of Bothaland Hepple, and Marquis of New­castle; and in 1665, Earl of Ogle, and Duke of Newcastle. This loyal nobleman enter­tained King Charles I. with great magnificence at Bolsover, when he was on his way to Scotland, in 1633. The expense of the dinner avas £4,000. Lord Clarendon speaks of it as “such an excess of feasting as had scarce ever been known in England before, and would still be thought very prodigious, if the same noble person had not within a year or two afterwards made the King and Queen a more stupendous entertainment, which (God be thanked,) though possibly it might too much wet the appetite of others to excess, no man ever after in those days imitated.” The Duchess of Newcastle, in her Memoirs of her noble husband, expressly says, that this second entertainment was the year after the former, which the King “ liked so well, that a year after his return out of Scotland, he was pleased to send my lord word, that her Majesty the Queen was resolved to make a progress into the northern parts, desiring him to prepare the like entertainment for her Majesty as he had formerly done for him; which my lord did, and endeavoured for it with all possible care and industry, sparing nothing that might add splendour to that feast which both their Majesties were pleased to honour with their presence. Ben Jonson he employed in fitting such speeches and scenes as he could best devise; and sent for all the gentry of the country to come and wait on their Majesties; and resigned Welbeck for their Majesty’s lodgings. The whole entertainment was conducted in such a magnificent style, that the expenses of the second visit alone cost between fourteen and fifteen thousand pounds.”

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On the breaking out of the Civil wars, the Duke, owing to his attachment to the royal cause, was obliged to leave the country and reside at Antwerp till the restoration. The Earl of Newcastle being commander in chief of the King’s forces for the northern and midland counties, placed a garrison at Bolsover, of which he made Colonel Muschamp govenor. The Earl was at Bolsover with his staff in the month of December, 1643. About the middle of August, 1644, Bolsover Castle was taken by Major-General Crawford. The Parliamentary writers represent it as having been well manned and fortified with great guns and strong works. It is said to have surrendered on summons, and that 120 muskets were taken in it, with much plunder. When the Marquis’s estates, which had been seized by the parliament, were about to be sold, his friends in England made great efforts to save Bolsover and Welbeck, but in vain. Bolsovor was purchased on speculation, with the intention of pulling down the castle and selling the materials. After part of it had been pulled down, Sir Charles Cavendish re-purchased it at a great disadvantage for his brother. The family portraits, by Vandyke, were preserved, and Lord Mansfield, after the death of his uncle, had Bolsover Castle some time in possession, but was unable to repair it. When the King’s affair’s had grown desperate, the Marquis of Newcastle retired to the continent, and resided chiefly at Antwerp, till the restoration, after which he returned to England, and in 1665 was created a Duke, as before mentioned. About this period, he retired front public life, spending his time chiefly in the country, “pleasing himself,’ as the Duchess in the life of her husband expresses herself, “in the manage­ment of some few horses, and exercising himself with the use of the sword, which two acts he had brought to an absolute perfection. During his residence at Antwerp, he pub­lished his celebrated work on horsemanship. A second edition was published in England, in 1667. After the Duke had a little recovered from the wreck which had been made of his fortune, he repaired Bolsover Castle, and occasionally resided there during the latter part of his life. Both the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle found great resources in literary pur­suits; they were both dramatic writers and poets. The Duchess’s printed works, which were chiefly philosophical, filled ten folio volumes, and she also left three more in manu­script. Her printed works are become rare, and few of them would afford amusement to readers of the present day, except her Life of the Duke. The Duchess died in 1673, the Duke in 1676 ; they were buried in Westminster Abbey, where a magnificent monument was erected to their memory.

Henry, the second Duke of Newcastle, who resided often at Bolsover, died there in 1691, and was buried in the parish church. Leaving no son, his estates devolved to his daughter and co-heiress Margaret, married to John Holles, Earl of Clare, who, in 1694, was created Duke of Newcastle. Henrietta, their only daughter and heiress, married Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford. Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley, heiress of the Earl of Oxford, brought the manor, or as it is called in some records, the barony, of Bolsover, to William, Duke of Portland, great grandfather of the present noble owner, William John Cavendish Bentinck, Duke of Portland. The barony of Bolsover and Woodthorpe was valued in 1641, at £846 8s. 11d, per annum.

Bolsover Castle stands on the abrupt brow of a steep hill, and commands some beau­tiful and extensive prospects, while it is a most picturesque object to the inhabitants of the surrunding country. It consists of two detached buildings, one of these, the Castle, is the restoration of the ancient Norman fortress. It is a square mansion, with turrets and a high tower at the north-east corner. All the rooms in the basement and first stories, are arched and supported on pillars. The Norman character is perceived in these pillars and arches, and some antiquarians believe that the tower portions of the pillars in the basement storey are original, and as old as the time of King Henry I. The kitchen, larder, and servants’ hall are noble and lofty rooms. In the first story, the pillars next on the spot immediately above the pillars in the basement, are of a similar height, but of a more ornamented character. The arched roof of the drawing room, or pillar room, is elaborately

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and beautifully carved. The pillars in the centre are both elegant and massive, the wains­coting is walnut, richly carved and gilt, and the furniture of the room is made to suit the Elizabethan period; there is here a very beautiful statue (life size) of the only daughter of the Rev. John Hamilton Gray, in marble, executed in Rome. An ante-room, furnished with engravings and marble busts, conducts to the drawing room, which also is supported on pillars, and, adorned with a profusion of beautifully carved oak cabinets, and gilded wainscot, from Venice. The dining room communicates with the entrance hall, which is also furnished with fine carved oak cabinets. The dancing and drawing rooms are about twenty-five feet square. The only large room in the house, is the Star chamber, on the second story, which is upwards of forty feet long, and has been fitted up as a library and museum; the former of which contains a very considerable collection of books, &c., but what possesses the most attraction, is the rare and valuable assemblage of Etrurican vases, which the Rev. Jno. Hamilton Gray collected, in Italy, and which is considered to be one of the finest private collections in England; besides the collection of the Etrurican vases, there are also a number of interesting relies of the royal family of Stewart. The Norman Castle has always been kept in good repair, and during the last twenty-six years, that it has been inhabited by the Rev. John Hamilton Gray, M.A., (the vicar), it has been fitted up in the style of the seventeenth century, so that a stranger unacquainted with the story of the place, might imagine the quaint old carvings and curious cabinets, and chests, to have been actually the property of the famous “Bess of Hardwick,” instead of having been collected during the last quarter of a century.

 

There have been various opinions concerning the date of the magnificent range of buildings which extend along the grand terrace, now unroofed and in a dilapidated state. Mr. Bray was of opinion that the apartments in it were fitted up for the royal visists before mentioned. Dr. Pegge supposes it to have been erected some time after the Restoration. Lord Orford was of the same opinion. The date of Diepenbeck’s view of Bolsover (1652), decides the point, that the building was erected before the Restoration; it is equally certain that it must have been erected before the civil wars, indeed before the royal visit before mentioned, it being impracticable that the King and Queen, with their court, and “all the gentry of the county,” could have been entertained in the mansion already described. From the slight manner in which the Duchess, in the life of her husband, speaks of the additions made by him to Bolsover Castle, it is a more probable conjecture that the great range of building, now in ruins, was built, as well as the mansion, which is now habitable, by his father. The Duke’s additions probably consisted of thc spacious riding-house, for the practice of his favourite amusement, the smithy, &c. Dating the sequestration of the estates of its noble owner, Bolsover Castle suffered much, both as to its buildings and furniture, but these damages were repaired by the Duke after the Res­toration. It is certain that the state apartments were not dismantled till after the year 1710, at which time Bassano speaks of them as furnished, and describes the pictures then in the several rooms, which are said to have been removed to Welbeck. The portraits of this Duke of Newcastle. on horseback, described by Bassano, are not now to be found there; probably they were in a state of decay. In the saloon at Welbeck is a very fine whole-­length portrait of the Duke, by Vandyke; there is a whole-length of the Duchess of New­castle, in one of the passages, in a fancy dress, by Diepenbeck. The gallery at Bolsover was about 220 feet in length by 22 it width; the dining room, 78 feet by 32; the two drawing rooms, one 39 feet, the other 36 feet by 33.

 

Bolsover Park, which was enclosed in the year 1200, has long ago been converted into tillage. A few years ago, when the venerable proprietor of this Castle, the late Duke of Portland, attended his 81st birth-day, a festival was held within the walls of this magni­ficent ruin, and on the broad terrace below, when no less than three thousand persons assembled to do him honour, on a spot which commands one of the finest views in England, and amid scenes, rich in some of the most stirring incidents in English history. In the

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distance the mountains of the Peak, the beautiful undulations of Scarsdale, the rich scenery of Sutton Park, the noble woods and mansion of Hardwick,—below the vale of Sutton, and above the battlements and turrets of the ancient Bolsover Keep, formed a picture of uncommon beauty. The terrace and tilt-yard, were thronged with groups in their gayest holiday attire, music and shouts resounded in the walls, and old Bolsover never saw such a stirring scene since the days of King Charles the First, and the loyal Marquis of Newcastle.

 

BOLSOVER was formerly noted for its manufacture of steel spurs and buckles, which were so admirably tempered, that it used to be said, a loaded waggon might pass over them without injuring them, and every ploughman and waggoner wore them. Tobacco pipes also formerly were extensively manufactured here, excellent clay being found in the neighbour­hood. Both these sourses of employment are now extinct, and besides agriculture, part of the inhabitants are employed in the collieries and iron works in the neigh­bourhood. Hockley, a district, which forms the N.W. part of the village. Oxcroft, a small hamlet and manor, 2 miles N. from Bolsover. The Duke of Newcastle is lord of this manor, and owner of 458A. of land. Shuttlewood, a hamlet, 2 miles N.N.W. Here are the remains of a bath, of which the water is strongly sulphurous, similar to that of Harrogate. Stanfree, a small hamlet, 2 miles N.N.W. Whaley, a hamlet and small village, 3 miles N.E.; through which formerly a stage waggon went from this place to London, Woodhouse, a small hamlet and village, one mile N.N.W. from Bolsover.

 

GLAPWELI., a small village and township, on the Chesterfield and Nottingham road, 5 miles N.W. fr. Mansfield, 3 m. S. fr. Bolsover, and 7 S.E. from Chesterfield, contains 739A. 1R. 39P. of land, including woods, &c., and in 1851, had 21 houses, and 99 inhabitants, of whom 54 were males and 45 females; rateable value, £662 14s. 2d. Thos. Hallowes, Esq., is the sole owner, and resides at the Hall, an ancient mansion, on a bold elevation near the village. The manor (Glapewelle), at the Domesday survey, was held with Bolsover; during the thirteenth century it was in the family of De Glapwell, whose heiress, it is probable, brought it to the Woolhouses. Wm. Woolhouse, Esq. died, seized of it, in 1411. The heiress of Woolhouse, about the middle of the 17th century, married the the ancestor of the present proprietor. There was formerly a Chapel at Glapwell. About the year 1260, an agreement was entered into between the Abbot of Darley and his parishioners of the ville of Glapwell, about roofing the Chapel; they agreed to give five acres of land for the purpose of repairing, or, if necessary, of rebuilding of it. There was many years a Presbyterian congregation here. William Woolhouse, Esq., who died, in 1667, gave a rent charge of £20 per annum to the minister. The Feast on November 12th.

 

CHARITIES.—Richard Youle, in 1699, gave 20s. for a distribution of bread on Christmas day. Wm. Wilkson left 6s. 8d. a year to poor widows; and Francis Tompkin 10s. annually to the poor, which are distributed at Christmas. The poor have also 10s. a year from the bequest of Richard Johnson, (who also left 10s. yearly to the poor of Clown), and the interest of £10 from the bequest of Ann Stones.

Samuel Dowker, in 1738, left the interest of £10 for a distribution of bread.

Francis Leach is supposed to have left the annual sum of 3s. 6d., which is paid out of a farm.

Isabella Smithson, 1795, gave the sum of £2,000 to be disposed of as her niece, Ann Morton, should judge most proper for the benefit of the poor. The above sum, by a suit in chancery, with the interest due to August, 1774, was recovered and laid out in the purchase of £3,308 4s. 3d. three per cent. annuities, by a scheme approved of and confirmed by the Master of the Rolls; it was directed that £20 or £25 should be paid to four women in any year as marriage portions, provided they had resided four

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years in the parish of Bolsover at the time of their marriage, and the person with whom they should intermarry had resided there the same period. The remainder of the divideads, deducting £6 for the vicar for his trouble, was to be distributed to poor persons. No marriage portions have been paid, though some applications have been made, but regarded as not being qualified. The divideds, amounting to £99 5s., are annually distributed on Christmas day and on Easter Tuesday, among poor persons of Bolsover.

Rev. Francis Gisborne’s charity. (See Bradley.)—The sum of £5 10s. received by the vicar, is laid out in woollen cloth and blankets, and given to the poor.

 

BOLSOVER DIRECTORY.

 

Those marked 1 are at Oxcroft, 2, Shuttlewood, 3 Stanfree, 4 Whaley, 5 Woodhouse, and the rest at Bolsover.

Post Office, at A. Shacklock’s. Letters arrive from Chesterfield, at 9.0 a.m., and are despatched at 4.0 p.m.

 

Barton Wm., letter out of drills Bennett Clues., surveyor, and agent to Legal   and Commercial Fire and Life Office Bond Fredk., corn factor Bower David, horse-breaker Clark Mrs. Ann Coupe Wm., pocket knife maker Cuttles Richd., hair-dresser Cutts Luke, coal dealer Flint Mr. George Frost Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Rev. John Hamilton, M.A., rector,   and Rural Dean, Castle Hawkesley Geo., gent. Haywood. Richd., confectioner Heald Geo., glover, constable, and assistant   overseer Hodgkinson Mrs. Mary Hopkin Wm., tinner and brazier Jackson Richard, gent. Limb Geo., coal owner, Oxcroft Lucas Mr. Matthew, Nunnery House Mellors Job, besom maker

Palmer William, gent. Pearce Miss Mary Pulleyn John, gent. Robinson John gent. Rose Wm., painter and gilder Shacklock Ann, dressmaker Stevenson Olinthus, registr. of births & deaths Turner John, nail maker Twidale Wm., tray, tea dealer Whitaker John, beerhouse Wilson James, lime burner   Inns and Taverns.   Anchor, James Martin Angel, Thos. Heath Barley Mow, Wm. Chapman Black Bull, Harriet Mellors 4 Black Horse, Abraham Pressley Blue Bell, Robt. Bond Cross Keys, John Hutton, (& baker) 3 Royal Oak, Fras Shacklock, (& clock mkr) White Swan, Jph. Cree

 

Academies. Marsh Jos. Thos National, Jno.Windle   Basket Makers. Charlesworth Job Charlesworth John Drabble Thomas   Blacksmiths. Gunby John Johnson John., (and   machinist) Johnson Stephen   Boot and Shoe Makers. Bennett John

Bennett Wm. Broad Charles Dickins Vincent Drury John Higginbottom James Pearson George Shacklock Stephen Wild Wm. Wright Wm.   Butchers. Hartley Samuel Jackson Matthew Pearce Edward   Chimney Sweeps. Gascoyne John Hughes John   Corn Millers. Bunting Alfred

Smith Thos.   Farmers. 3 Adin Jph. 4 Armstrong Benj. Armstrong Edward Armstrong Richard Armstrong Wm., Moor Atkinson Henry Barker, John, Coppice Bond Robert Brown Wm., Wood   house 5 Bunting John 3 Calow Jno., (& brick   maker Carter John Charlesworth Mary Charlesworth Richard Cooke Wm., Woodside

Cox George, Woodside Cree Joseph 3 Eyre Joseph Fowler Charles, Ox­-   croft 5 Green Thomas Harvey Wm Heath Solomon 4 Hunt Robert 4 Hunt Wm. Hutton John Jackson Ann Jackson James Jackson Wm. 2 Lawrence John 5 Nicholson Catherine Pearce John 3 Richardson Ann Robinson Ann 2 Saunders Richard

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Shacklock Joshua 3 Simpson Joseph 1 Simpson Thos.  Skinner Jno., Oxcroft 5 Smith George Spite George Stocks Wm. 2 Stubbins Samuel 3 Thorneley John, (&   lime burner) Tinsley Geo., Moor Whitaker John   Grocers. Bennett Thos. Bunting Jno. Freeman,   (& druggist) Charlesworth Ann Haywood Thos. Meakin John   Hook Makers. Walters Aaron

Walters Samuel, (and   cooper)                Walters William   Joiners & Cabinet Makers. Brown Thos. Crookes Henry Cuthbert Jph.,(& bkr) Hind Chpr. Shacklock Abraham Thompson Wm. Walters Saml., jun.   Nursery & Seeds- men. Adsetts John Brown Wm., Wood-   house   Saddlers. Dean Edward Sykes George

Shopkeepers. Charlesworth Mary Heald John Savage George Wall Thos.   Stone Masons. Brookes Joshua Charlesworth George Charlesworth Rd., jun. Hellingworth John Hughes Benjamin Wragg Thos.   Surgeons. Alsop Anthony Marples Fras. Dickins,   (& druggist)   Tailors. Mkd. * are Drapers. Booker Geo.

* Crookes Francis Cutts Wm. Furniss John Haywood Edw. * Haywood John * Haywood Thos. Stubbins Thos.   Vtrinry. Surgeons Martin James Waterhall John   Wheelwrights. Handley Joseph Meakin Thos.   Carriers. Chesterfield; Joseph   Mellors and John   Whitaker, Sat. Mansfield; Jph. Mell-­   ors and Thos Wall,   Thurs.

 

GLAPWELL TOWNSHIP.

 

Hallowes Thomas, Esq., The Hall Gilbert Wm., gardener Hall Sarah, vict., Young Vanish Johnson John, butler, Hall

Thompson Wm., shoemaker Whitworth Wm., blacksmith Wood Wm., farm steward

 

Farmers.   Boler Thomas

Dickin Robert Shaw John Wardley Joseph, Lane

Wheelwrights.   Fox Joseph

Fox William

 

BRACKENFIELD & WOOLLEY formed a chapelry in Morton parish, but by an Order of Council, agreeable to the recommendation of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, it was made a distinct parish in 1844.

 

BRACKENFIELD is a scattered village, principally situated upon an open green, 4½ miles N.W. from Alfreton, 7 miles S. from Chesterfield, and 18 from Derby. It contains 1494A. 3R. 28P. of land, and in 1851 had 82 houses, and 399 inhabitants, of whom 192 were males, and 207 females; rateable value £1795 7s. 7d. Thomas and Wm. Wragg, Esqrs., are joint lords of the manor and owners, but Gladwin Turbutt, Esq., is also a con­siderable owner. The Chapel, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, is a small ancient building, very rude and curious, with an antique rood screen, and at the end of one of the benches are carved the Arms of the Babingtons. A new church is in course of erection, about one mile east from the former, the site for which was given by Gladwin Turbutt, Esq., of Ogston Hall. It is a neat stone edifice in the decorated style, with nave, chancel, and north aisle, the cost of which was about £1400, raised by subscriptions, aided by grants from the Incorporated and Diocesan Societies. A tower or spire is intended to be added as soon as sufficient funds are raised. The living is a perpetual curacy, value £58, originally endowed with £32 per annum Queen Anne’s bounty, has been augmented with £20 per annum by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and £6 Corden Fund. The rector of Morton is the patron, and the Rev. Thomas Openshaw, B.A., of Sherland, is the incumbent. A handsome National school was erected on the Green at Brackenfield, in 1845, with a residence for the master, at a cost of £450, raised by subscription, aided by grants from the Committee of Council and the National Society.  The Midland Railway crosses the

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eastern side of the parish, and it appears is charged in the poor’s rate, in all cases according to the traffic, the value of which is taken annually.

Ogston Hall and manor, one mile E. from the church, is the seat and property of Gladwin Turbutt, Esq., a magistrate and deputy lieutenant for the county. Road Nook an ancient hall, which is the manor house of Brackenfield, is the property and residence of Mr. George Wragg. The family of Heriz possessed Ogstone and Brackenfield, then called Brackenthwayte, in the reign of King John, Sir Richard Willoughby held Brackenfield under the Deincourts, in 1369. About this time Ogstone became the property and seat of the Revels. The sisters and co-heiresses of William Revel, Esq., who died in 1706, married Richard Turbutt, Esq., of Doncaster, and Sir Paul Jenkinson, Bart., of Walton, near Chesterfield. Mr. Turbutt purchased a moiety of John Woodyeare, Esq., of Crookhill, near Doncaster, who married a granddaughter of Lady Jenkinson. Feast, first Sunday after Whitsuntide.

 

CHARITIES.—£8 10s. is received from the rector of Morton in respect of Gisborne’s and Turbutt’s charities, which is distributed to the poor.

 

Those marked * reside at Woolley.

 

Bradley Job, shopkeeper Burgoyne Hy. & Eliz,, National school Crofts James, wheelwright Griffiths Edwd., railway contractor Hadfield Joseph, vict., Plough

Haslam Eliz., tanner Limb John, stonemason Milnes George, beerhouse Turbutt Gladwin, Esq., Ogston Hall

 

Farmers. Askew Wm. * Barker Edwd. * Barker George * Bradley George Bradley Job * Crofts James * Draycott John * Elliott Francis

Fidler Wm. Hadfield Joseph *Haslam James Hill John Hopkinson Saml. Knowles Robert, (&   shopkpr.) Limb Ruth Limb Susan

Mellors Eliz. Milnes & Bright Milner Arthur Newton John Radford Wm. * Sadler Rd., Moor Saxelby Thomas * Sowter Eljz. Sowter Robert

Spencer Thomas Towndrow Edward White Robt. & Jph.,   Skegaleq House Wilmot Wm. Wragg Eliz. Wragg George, Manor   House Wragg John

 

BRAMPTON is an extensive parish and small pleasant village, situated 4 miles W. by N. from Chesterfield. It contains many scattered hamlets and good houses; and at the north extremity the constablewick of Cutthorpe, the whole of which keep their poor con­jointly, and for parochial purposes is divided into the Upper and Lower divisions. It contains 7920 acres of land, and in 1851 had 971 houses, and 4409 inhabitants, of whom 2202 were males, and 2207 females; rateable value £10,288 13s. The Duke of Devon­shire is principal owner and lord of the manor, which is chiefly freehold; a part of Cutthorpe is copyhold. The Duke of Portland, Sir George Sitwell, Bart., and Robt. Arkwright, Esq., with several others, are also owners. The Church, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, is a perpetual curacy, valued at £143, has been augmented with £200 benefaction, and £200 Queen Anne’s bounty. Bishop of Lichfield patron, and the Rev. Wm. Peach, M.A., incumbent. The church is an ancient embattled stone edifice, on a bold elevation, on the north side of the village; it has nave, chancel, side aisles, and handsome low tower, surmounted by a short spire. The Parsonage is situate near the church, and has 20 acres of glebe; the tithes have been commuted; the large for £411 8s.10d., and the small for £90 6s. 4d. A small school and residence for the master were erected here in 1830, towards which the National School Society gave £100 for endowment. (See Charties.)

BRAMPTON PARISH.                                                       699

 

BRAMPTON MOOR AND NEW BRAMPTON form the south-east portion of the parish. An act was obtained for inclosing the Moor in 1825, which now forms a populous district, adjoining to Chesterfield, where a district church, St. Thomas, was erected in 1830, and opened in 1831; it is a spauious structure, with a handsome pinnacled tower, and cost £2,930 4s. The living is a perpetual curacy, which the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have endowed, and the value, including pew rents, is £150; the Bishop of Lichfield is patron; the Rev. John Beridge Jebb, B.A., incumbent; and the Rev. John Jones, assistant curate, to whom the Pastoral Aid Society allow £100 per annum. The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have each places of worship here, and a Natioeal school has also been erected. The parish is about eight miles in length from east to west, and 3½ miles in breadth, New Brampton forming the east extremity. It is noted for its extensive brown earthenware and stone bottle manufacture, generally designated as Chesterfield ware.

Three manors are noticed in Brampton (Brantune) at Domesday survey, two of which belonged ta Ascoit Musard, the other to Walter Deincourt. The two former appear to have been united at an early period. This manor of Brampton was given by King Henry II. to Peter de Brampton, whom it is supposed was the second son of Matilda de Cauz, or Caus, heiress of the barony of Caus, by her second husband, Adam de Berkin; the grandson of this Peter assumed the name of De Caus. This family became extinct in the male line, about the year 1460; two of the co-heiresses married Ash and Baguley, or Balguy. The whole of the manor of Brampton, otherwise Caus-hall, became eventually, by purchase, the property of the Earls of Shrewsbury; it was purchased of the Shrewsbury family by the Earl of Newcastle; and was in 1641, valued at £142 4s. 8d. per annum, Having passed with other estates to the Duke of Portland, it was included in an exchange with the late Duke of Devonshire. Birley Grange formerly belonged to the monastery of Lowth. The abbot and convent of Rufford had lands in Brampton, which were granted by Henry VIII. to the Earl of Shrewsbury, and have passed with the manor. Brampton House, 1 mile W. from Chesterfield, is the property and residence of Wm. Claughton, Esq. Bridge House, ½ mile W.N.W. from Chesterfield, is the property and residence of Mrs. Rooth. Ashgate, an ancient mansion, formerly the property of the Clarke, 2 miles W. from Chester­field, is now the property and residence of John Gorrell Barnes, Esq. Cutthorpe, a small village, pleasantly situated on an eminence commanding fine views, forms the north side of the parish, 1½  miles N. by E. from Brampton. The Hall, now a farm house, is a very ancient building. Linacre, formerly esteemed a subordinate manor, was the seat of an ancient family named Linacre. Somersall Hall, a venerable mansion, formerly a seat of the Clarkes, 2 miles S.W. from Chesterfield, is now the property and seat of Samuel Johnson, Esq. Three Birch, a farm and district, noted for extensive slate quarries. Wat­shelf; Watchell, or Wadeseel, which took its name from Wade, the Saxon owner, in the reign of Edward the Confessor, was given by the Musards to Beauchief Abbey. It is a small village, which forms the S.W. extremity of the parish. Wigley, a small village, ½ mile N. from Watshelf, was the original residence of the ancient family of Wigley. The scattered farms are named in the Directory. Brampton Feast is the nearest Sunday to St. Peter’s day, and Cutthorpe Feast second Sunday in August.

 

CHARITIES.—Brampton School, near the church, is endowed with the following bene­factions, viz.:—£1 per annum is received as the rent of half an acre of land awarded at the enclosure. In 1679, Peter Calton left 10s. per annum; Robert Sutton, 20s.; John Watkinson, 40s.; Sir Gilbert Clarke, £2 6s.; John Akerode, £1 10s.; Henry Glossop, 20s.; and Dorothy Heath the interest of £40. In consideration of these sums, the master instructs 16 children free.

Sir Gilbert Clarke, in 1701, gave his lands at Harwood, in Bakewell parish, upon trust, to apply one third of the rents to the minister of Brampton, one third towards the support of a schoolmsster, and the remaining third part in apprentice fees. By an old book, the property of the charity is stated to be £110, of which £106 17s. was laid out

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in £200 three per cent. console, and the residue, £3 3s., was in the hands of William Peach. The dividends amount to £6 3s. per annum; of this sum, £2 6s. is paid to the minister, £1 6s. 8d distributed in bread, and the rest carried to a fund for clothing the poor. We conceive the income should be disposed of in accordance with the donor’s intentions.

Henry Glossop, in 1748, left 20s. per annum to the schoolmaster, 10s. for a distribution of bread, and 2s. 6d. a year to the clerk for repairing his tomb.

John Wilcockson, in 1718, left the interest of £30 to the poor. Nathaniel Newbold, the interest of £20 to the minister for preaching a sermon on Easter Tuesday and Joshua Hibbert, 10s. for a sermon on the same day, and 5s. to be given in bread. The poor have also the benefit of £10 left by John Memott, £10 by Richard Kindar, and £5 left by Samuel Tomlinson, These sums, amounting to £90, were invested in land, producing a rental £6 13s. 4d., of which £1 8s. 6d. is paid to the minister, £2 6s. 6d. is laid out in blankets and clothes, and 5s. in bread for the poor.

John Akrode, in 1705, gave £300 upon trust, to be invested in land, out of the profits thereof 20s. to be given for the education of two boys, 50s. to be expended in bread for tho poor, and the overplus to be paid to the minister. A sum of £1 10s. is now paid to the schoolmaster, £2 10s. for a distribution of bread, and the residue £9 14s. 6d., is paid to the minister.

George Milward left £10. This sum, with that of James Shaw’s, John Akrode’s, and a sum of £40 not accounted for, making £360, was put forth on lands and a messuage in North Wingfield, from which a rent charge of £16 per annum is paid, and given as above.

Godfrey Foljambe’s Charity.—(See Chesterfield)—The scale of division, according to the population, recommended by the Commissioners, will give Brampton £33 8s. 10½d.

James Shaw, of London, in 1630, devised certain premises at West Smithfield, charged with £20 for the following uses, viz.—£5 to the aged poor, £14 for apprentice fees, 10s. for a sermon in the church on the day of distribution, 2s. each to the churchwardens and parish clerk, and the remaining 4s. to be spent by such ancient parishioners as should be present.

The sum of £100 was received as a fine on a lease, and vested on turnpike security. The income is now £23 12s. 6d.. of which £17 12s 6d. is paid in apprentice fees, £5 to the poor, 10s. for a sermon on St. Thomas’s day, and 10s. to the clerk and churchwardens for refreshments.

Henry Hatley, in 1592, left a rent charge of 20s. per annum, which is paid in respect of a farm at Dog Hole, and distributed on Christmas eve.

Anthony Boote, in 1712, devised a messuage and lands with the payment of 20s. yearly, to be distributed to 40 poor persons in the church porch on the 1st of January. The amount is paid by the owner of the estate.

John Belfit, in 1725, left 5s., charged on a field in Whittington, to be given in bread.

George Wilkes, it is stated, gave £10 to the minister for preaching a sermon on St. Thomas’s day, and £5 for the poor, but we have not got any further information respecting it.

William Andrew left £20 for the poor of the parish; 18s. is paid as the interest, and distributed in bread on Christmas day.

Elizabeth Tomlinson, in 1779, directed her executors to place out the sum of £600, and pay the interest in the same manner as Foljambe’s charity. The interest £24, is distri­buted in sums varying from 2s. to 5s. to poor persons.

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Ann Stevenson, in 1743, gave to the poor of the hamlet of Watshelf £5, for which 5s. as interest, is distributed to poor widows.

 

BRAMPTON DIRECTORY.

Marked 1 reside at Ashgate, 2 Brampton Moor, 3 Cutthorpe. 4 Eastmoor, 5 Holymoor side, 6 Loads, 7 Overgreen, 8 Oxenrakes, 9 Pratt Hall, 10 Watshelf, and the rest in Brampton, or where specified.

 

Post Office, at Martha Elliott’s, Brampton Moor. Letters arrive from Chesterfield, at 6.0 a.m., and are despatched at 7.0 a.m.

 

3 Alsop Mrs. Hannah 1 Barnes John Gorrel, Esq., Ashgate Bennison Stephen, brewer; h. Ashgate rd 2 Bennett George, timber merchant Bunting Mrs. Eliz. Bunting John, wine merchant 2 Cartlidge Wm., dyer Claughton Wm., Esq., Brampton House 2 Cupit Alfred, druggist Dixon John, Esq., Brampton Hall 1 Dodson Wm., wood agent 2 Elliott Wm., plasterer 2 Gibbons Mr. Matthew 2 Glossop Mr. James 2 Hewitt Geo.. candle wick mnfr. Hewitt John, candle wick mnfr.; h. Fair- field 2 Hoyle James, clerk 2 Irving Thos., corn, &c. merchant Johnson Saml., Esq., Somersall Hall 2 Jones Rev. John, curate of St. Thomas’s 2 Kent Henry, elastic fabric mnfr. Kent John, needle & wire mfr.; h. Spa bank 2 Knight John, brazier, &c. 2 Margerison Wm., slater Manlove Simeon, cotton spinner, Holymoor   Works; h. Rye-hill Melland Stephen, gent., Upper Leadhill 2 Parkin & Co., brewers; Stephen Bennison,   manager Peach Rev. Wm., M.A., incumbent Robinson Jonth., tobacco pipe maker 2 Rooth Wm., chemical works Rooth Mrs. Bridge House

2 Simpson Samuel, nail maker 1 Stovin Miss — 4 Taylor Jabez, manager at Eastmoor chim- ney pot and drain pipe Pottery 2 Turner Ashton, clerk 2 Vincent Mrs. T., Manor House Walker John, Esq., Belmont 2 Walker Miss Martha 2 Welch Edwin. hairdresser 2 Wilcockson Thos., gent. 2 Wright Mrs. P. 2 Wright Mr. George 2 Wright Walton, earthenware mnfr.   Inns and Taverns.   2 Anchor, Eliz., Davenport, Welch Pool 2 Barrel, John Turner 2 Bold Rodney, R. Lyon 2 Bull’s Head, Jas. Bennett Fox and Goose, George Hancock 7 Gate, Geo. Magerison George and Dragon, Wm. Frearson 10 Hare and Hounds, Thos. Widowson 2 Hat and Feathers, George Hoskin 5 Lamb, Jas. Shemwell 4 New Inn, William Gregory 2 Old Britannia, John Lenthall 2 Old Griffin, Ellen Fletcher 2 Old Pheasant, Catherine Bower 3 Peacock, Henry Salt 2 Red Lion, Saml. Gregory Rufford Inn, Jas. Pyatt 6 Star, Jas. Wilcockson

 

Beerhouses. 2 Elliott Thos. 2 Gregory John Hudson George 2 Patteson Edw. 3 Reddish Reubon 2 Rhodes Taos. 2 Smith Wm. 2 Turner Chas. 2 Turner Paul 2 Watts Joseph   Blacksmiths. Barton Stephen 5 Bennett John

4 Heath Samuel Marples Geo. 10 Newbold Geo.  2 Stubbin Samuel 2 Watts Joseph   Boot & Shoemkrs. 2 Barker Thos. Canlin Richd. 2 Knowles Wm. 10 Lyon Geo. 2 Lyon R. 2 Platts Edw. 5 Short Isaac 2 Turner Isaac 2 Twelves Wm.

2 Wright Saml.   Box (Paper & Chip) Manfrs. 2 Robinson John B.   & Son. (& lint mfrs) 2 Robinson Wm.   Brick & Tile Mkrs 2 Briddon S. & H 2 Knowles Luke 2 Knowles Math. 4 Taylor Edley, (fire) 6 Watkinson John   Butchers. 2 Addy Thos.

2 Gaunt Henry 2 Hayes John 2 Haslam Joseph Parker Geo. 2 Sedgwick Thos. Sutton A. 2 Turner Wm.   Candle-wick Mfrs 2 Hewitt, Bunting, &   Co.   Corn Millers. 2 Elliott Wm. Lindley Geo., Nether   Load

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Colliery Owners. Mkd. * are Ironstone 1 Barnes Edw. 2 Bennett Jonth. Brown Enzor, Brook   side 2 Dawson George 2* Eyre Robt, Jno., &   Wm. 2 Hoskin Geo. 2* Hoskin Saml. 3 Mason John Marsden John 2 Marsden Thos.  2 Wilcockson Jas.   Earthnwr. Brown and Stone Bottle &c. Manufrs. 2 Briddon S. & H. 2 Briddon Wm. 2 Knowles Luke 2 Knowles Matthew 2 Lowe, Blake, and   Knowles 2 Oldfield John 4 Taylor Edley, man-   ufacturer of chim-   ney pots, drain pipes   &c., Eastmoor Pot-   tery 2 Wright Edw. & Son   Elastic Fabric Mfrs. 2 Kent and Hackett   Farmers. 8 Addy Edward 10 Addy Edw., jun. 2 Alsop Dorothy 8 Anthony Edward Anthony Geo. 4 Barnes Samuel Belfitt Wm. 3 Belk Edw. 2 Bestwick Henry 8 Botham John 3-6 Botham Wm.   6 Bower Chas. Bower Wm. 3 Bower Wm. 4 Brown George Brown Henry Brown Jas., Rufford

3 Crookes Wm. 10 Davenport Thos. Dicken Robt. 4 Dixon John Henry Drabble Jno., Hollins Drabble Joseph 10 Fisher John 10 Froggatt Ezekiah Gregory Richard 4 Gregory William, (&   cheese factor) 4 Hall Elias, Over-   Stonelow 8 Hallatt Jph. 10 Hancock Geo.  10 Hancock Thos. 8 Hancock Wm, 6 Hardy Wm. 5-6 Hartley Wm.   4 Heath Saml. 4 Heath John 2 Heathcote Geo. 4 Hill George 4 Hill John 6 Hogg Richard 2 Holmes Thos. 9 Hopkinson Wm. 8 Hudson Saml. Keaton Job 6 Lindley Geo. Littlewood Thos.  5 Lowe Isaac 10 Lowe John Marsden Jno., Grove Marsden William,   Stonelow 9 Margerison John 8 Margerison Peter 4 Marriott Wm. 3 Mason John 6 Massey John Mosley Wm. 10 Newbold John 8 Newbold Wm. 10 Newbold Ruth Parker Richd., Poole   House 8 Pearson Samuel Pyatt Jas., Rufford Inn 3 Rodgers Mrs. Shemwell John Shemwell Wm. 2 Turner Isaac Turner Saml. 5 Turner Wm.

6 Wagstaff Geo. 10 Walker Wm. 3 Webster Jas. Webster Wm. 10 White Joseph 10 Widowson Thos. Wilcockson Ann,   Brook side Wilcockson Edw. Wilcockson Joseph 3 Woodward Wm. 6 Wright Joseph   Iron and Brass Founder. 2 Sneath John   Joiners, &c. Mkd. * are Wheelwgts 4* Adlington J. * Arthur Geo. 10* Arthur John 2* Doe Geo. 2* Elliott John 2 Graham Henry 5* Hartley Geo. 2* Hattersley John 5 Hopkinson Geo. * Knowles Adam 2 Marsden Chas.   Needle and Wire Mfrs. 2 Hackett, Kent, and   Co., mnfrs. of steel   and iron wire, bon-   net wire, cap springs   and small-wares   Plumbers, Paint- ers, &c. 2 Green Mark 2 Peak John 2 Slack Abraham 2 Taylor John   Schools. 2 Glossop Ann 2 Haslam Eliza Hibbert S. & C. National, Enoch Hors-   fall 2 National, John   Hallows & Harriet   Thornton 2 Reddish Eliz.

2 Simmonite Matilda 2 Winter Caleb   Shopkeepers. 5 Bingham Chas. 2 Boot Edward 2 Briddon Richd. 2 Bryars Michael 2 Butler Susan 2 Burton Benj. Canlin Sarah 2 Cook Daniel 2 Dawson Isaac 4 Dolby John G., (and   besom maker) 2 Eggleston Thos. 2 Elliott Josiah 2 Elliott Thos. 2 Elliott Wm. 2 Ford Luke 2 Gilbert Thos. 2 Gregory Charlotte 2 Gregory John 2 Hancock Henry 2 Harrison Joseph 4 Heath Samuel 2 Huntington Saml. 2 Jones Robt. B. 2 Longdin John 2 Margerison Chas. 2 Middleton Jacob 2 Parker Francis 2 Rhodes Chas. 2 Simpson Luke 2 Slack Wm. 2 Smith George 2 Taylor James 2 Turner Wm. 2 Tyson Thos. Wainwright D.   Stonemasons. 2 Hancock Henry 2 Longdin John 2 Rowland Geo.   Tailors. 2 Barker Saml.,Welch   Pool 2 Haslam Robert 2 Hubbuck John 4 Shacklock W. Slack Geo. 2 Tother Andrew 2 Wainwright David 2 Wormsley Samuel

 

BRIMINGTON, parish and large village, formerly a chapelry belonging to Chester­field, but by order of council, 3rd September, 1844, was made a distinct parish for all civil and ecclesiastical purposes. It is pleasantly situated on the Barlborough road, 2 miles N.E. from Chesterfield, and contains 1522A. 0R. 25P. of land, and in 1851 had 243 houses and 1103 inhabitants, of whom 560 were males and 540 females; rateable value

BRIMINGTON PARISH.                                                     703

 

£4014 14s. The houses are neat and modern built. Richard Barrow, Esq. is lord of the manor and owner. E. V. P. Burnell, Esq., Mrs. Susannah Heywood, Exors. of the late John Meynell, Esq., Col. E. T. Coke, and Peter Hartley, with several others are also owners. The Church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a neat structure, with nave, chancel, side aisles, a handsome stone tower, in the decorated style of architecture, with three bells, and has also a good clock, was rebuilt partly by rate and subscription in 1808; the tower having previously been rebuilt by Joshua Jebb, Esq., in 1796, and was raised in 1846, when the Church was again rebuilt and considerably enlarged, the cost being defrayed by subscription, aided by a grant of £200 from the Incorporated Society for building and enlarging churches, on condition that 365 seats should remain free and unappropriated for ever. It will now seat 572 hearers. The living is a perpetual curacy, valued in the King’s book at £10, now £102, has been augmented with £200 benefactions, £600 Queen Anne’s bounty, and £1200 parliamentary grant. The vicar of Chesterfield is patron. The Eccle­siastical Commissioners impropriators, and the Rev. Frederick Arnold, B.A., incumbent. The Parsonage, is a substantial residence, created about twelve years ago, a little W. of the Church. The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have each chapels here, the former built 1806 and the latter in 1835. The National school for boys and girls was erected by subscription, in 1840, towards which grants were obtained from the National School society of £62, and from the Committee of Council on Education of £75. The site was given by the late G. H. Barrow, Esq.; it is a neat briek building. In 1854, a library was established in connection with the school, and contains 250 volumes of well selected books; Mr. H. Turton is the librarian.

Tapton Grove, 1½ miles N.E. from Chesterfield, is a large handsome mansion, on the verge of an abrupt declivity, at the foot of which a brook bounds the parish; it was erected by Avery Jebb, Esq., and is surrounded with a park, it is thc property of Godfrey Meynell, Esq. (a minor), and seat of Mrs. S. B. Meynell. The Hall situate at the S. of the village is an ancient mansion, and formerly belonged to Major General Gell, who was one of Cromwell’s officers; it is now the property of Colonel E. T. Coke, and seat of Capt. S. C. Wilmot. The manor of Brimington was formerly an appendage of Newbold and was successively in the families of Breton, Loudham, and Foljambe; it was purchased about the year 1800 of the Foljambe’s by John Dutton, Esq., but is now the property of the Barrow family. The ancient family of Brimington became extinct in the time of Edward III.

 

CHARITIES.—Joshua Jebb in 1794, left £5 yearly, out of his real estate at Tapton, to five poor old women in Tapton or Brimington. The amount is given as directed.

Brailsford Charity—10s. yearly is paid out of a farm at Lockerford, supposed to have been left by Elizabeth or Isabel Brailsford. The amount is given in bread to the poor.

Rev. Francis Gisborne’s charity.—(See Bradley.)—The annual sum of £7 5s. is laid out in warm clothing, and given to the poor about Christmas.

 

Post Office, at Abel Toplis’s, letters arrive from Chesterfield at 7 a.m., and are despatched at 7 p.m.

 

Allen Job, constable Arnold Rev. Fdk., B.A., incumbent Ashmore Mr. Saml., senr. Askew Michael, corn miller Fletcher Aaron, gent. Meynell Mrs. S. B., Tapton Grove Parker George, gardener Parker John, gentleman Turton Henry & Jane, National school

Watson Wm., stonemason Wilmot Captain Francis Sacheverell, The   Hall   Inns and Taverns. Bugle Horn, Wm. Greaves New Inn, Isaac Ball Red Lion, George Harper Three Horse Shoes, Mary Ann Oscroft

 

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Beerhouses. Orwin Matthew Salmon Wm. Siddall Silence Smith Robt. Parr   Blacksmiths. Allwood Thomas Richards George   Brick Makers. Dickson James Smith Robt. Parr

Butchers. Holmes Henry Rodgers Wm.   Farmers. Bagguley Thos. Carrington Wm. Cropper Thomas, (and   builder) Dickson James Heywood Susannah Holland Wm.

Holmes John Key Alfred Knowles John Mettam Wm. Steel Fdk. Wheatley David White Joseph White Thos. Grocers. Marsden William Mycroft Bennett. Iron Founders. Knowles John

Milner Joseph Mycroft Bennett Shoe Makers. Carrington Joseph Cowlishaw John Shopkeepers. Milner Charlotte Toplis Abel Wheelwrights. Calow John Fox James Hearnshaw Thomas