White's 1857 Directory of Derbyshire - pages 791-800

WINGFIELD NORTH PARISH.                                                  791

 

WINGFIELD NORTH, an extensive parish, includes the townships of North Wingfield, Clay Cross or Clay Lane, Pilsley, Stretton, Tupton, and Woodthorpe, 10,687A. 3R. 32P. of land, and in 1851 had 912 houses, and 4351 inhabitants, of whom 2355 were males, and 1996 females; rateable value £14,649 7s. The Midland railway crosses the parish, which is noted for its extensive collieries and ironstone beds.

 

WINGFIELD, (NORTH) a township and well-built improving village, situated on an eminence, 4½ miles S.S.E. from Chesterfield, contains with the hamlet of William-Thorpe, 1451A. 2R. 21P. of land, and in 1851 had 139 houses, and 668 inhabitants, of whom 371 were males, and 297 females; rateable value £2952. The principal owners are the Exors. of the late Sir Henry Hunloke, Bart., Wm. Drabble, Esq., J. W. Clay, Esq., and the Exors. of the late Mr. Pearson. The Church, dedicated to St. Lawrence, is an ancient stone edifice, with nave, chancel, side aisles, and square tower, with six bells. The chancel was restored in 1850, by the rector. In the vestry is the mutilated figure of a knight templar, and a similar one in the church yard. On the north side of the church is an ancient stone font, and over the south porch is the mutilated figure of the Virgin Mary. In the church are several ancient monuments, of which two are to the Holland family, of Ford Hall. The living is a rectory, valued in the King’s book at £21 6s. 3d., now £1200. Richard Barrow, Esq., patron; the Rev. Edward Walter Lowe, incumbent, who has about 80 acres of glebe, and resides at the rectory, a handsome mansion, east of the church. The tithes are commuted for £117 8s. 0¼d. A school is kept in the vestry, endowed with £2 10s. per annum, for which five poor children are taught free. (See Charities.) The manor, Winnefelt, at the Domesday survey, was held by Walter Dein­court, previous to which it had been described as an appendage to Morton, and had been given by Wulfric Spott to Burton abbey. The Deincourts gave the whole or a moiety of the manor to Welbeck abbey. Sir Ralph Longford is said to have possessed a moiety in 1513, by descent from the Deincourts. After the reformation the Leakes were possessed of the whole. After the death of Nicholas Leake, Earl of Scarsdale, it was sold to the Greens. The church was given by Ralph Deincourt to the priory of Thurgarton, and had from the reformation till sold by the Earl of Scarsdale been attached to the manor. A detached portion of the parish of Morton, amounting to 115A. 0R. 23P. of land, is situated in this township. A New National School, with a house for the master, was built in 1854, by the Wingerworth Coal Company, at a cost of £800. It consists of one large room, 48 feet by 16 feet, which may, if necessary, be made into two rooms by a sliding partition. It is a good brick building capable of accommodating 80 children; the average attendance is about 70. The school is partly self-supporting, as every man and boy who are employed at the Works, pay one penny per week towards its support, and whatever deficiency may arise is paid by the Company. At the cross roads, near the centre of the village is an ancient stone, or guide post, having on the cast side engraved “Chesterfield Rode,” on the north side “Darby Rode,” and on the west side, “by Captain Firebrass, Mansfield.” About one mile W. from the village is the Clay Cross Station, on the Midland Railway, from whence there are trains to the north and south, several times daily. Mr. Robert Jeffrey, station master. Feast, second Sunday in August. Lings, are two farm houses, 1 mile N.E. from the village.

 

WILLIAM—THORPE, a small hamlet and manor, 1½ mile E. from Wingfield, with which it keeps its poor, but maintains its own roads. The Wingerworth Coal Company have a colliery here. The manor Wilelmesthorpe, at Domesday survey, belonged to Walter Deincourt. Oliverde Barton married the heiress and was possessed of it in 1278, from whom it passed to Babington Chaworth, Lord Sheffield, and in 1638 to Sir William Cope. The trustees of Sir Anthony Cope, Bart., sold it in, 1676 to Sir William Hunloke, Bart., and it is now the property of the Executors of the late Sir Henry Hunloke, Bart.

792                                                                          SCARSDALE HUNDRED. 

CLAY CROSS, or CLAY LANE, a township and large improving village, advantageously situated in the centre of the extensive coal fields with which this neighbourhood abounds, 5 miles S. from Chesterfield, and 1 mile S.W. from North Wingfield, contains 4380A. 3R. of land, and in 1851 had 487 houses, and 2278 inhabitants, of whom 1234 were males, and 1044 females; rateable value £3352 10s. The principal owners are the Clay Cross Co., Gladwin Turbut, Esq., J. G. Barnes, Esq., Exors. of the late Mr. Jeremiah Booth, Messrs. James Taylor, James Bamford, John Hodgkinson, John Froggatt, and Holt Dixon, besides whom are a number of small freeholders. The Church, dedicated to St. Bartholomew, was erected in 1851, at a cost of £2500 raised by subscriptions and grants, towards which the Clay Cross Company gave £600 and the site. The first stone of the building was laid by Gladwin Turbutt, Esq., August 14th, 1849. It is a handsome stone edifice in the early English style, and consists of a nave, side aisles, chancel, and tower with one bell, to which was added in 1856, a spire of beautiful proportions, 70 feet high, at a cost of £340. It has sittings for 450 persons, all of which are free. On the completion of the church, the Building Committee presented to the Rev. Robert Chas. Willy, B.A., a handsome silver salver, in testimony of his valuable services as honorary secretary. The living is a perpetual curacy, value £60, to which the Clay Cross Company make an annual grant of £50. It is in the patronage of the Vicar of North Wingfield, and the incumbency of the Rev. Joseph Oldham, B.D., who resides at the parsonage, a neat stone building, at the southern extremity of the village. It was erected in 1853, at the cost of £1200, raised by subscriptions and grants from the Diocesan Society, and from Queen Anne’s bounty. The tithes were commuted in 1843 for £198 10s. 6d. Adjoining the parsonage are the National Schools, erected in 1853 at a cost of £400, raised by subscriptions, aided by a grant of £40. It is a handsome stone building, and consists of one large room capable of accommodating 150 children; contiguous to which is the master’s residence, built at a cost of £300, the proceeds of the sale of the Deer Leap School property. (See Charities.) The average attendance is 60. Mr. William A. Snaith, master. The Wesleyans, the New Connexion, and the Primitive Methodists have each places of worship here, the two former erected in 1848, and the latter in 1849. This place a few years ago was only a very small village, and its history in a commercial point of view is brief but interesting, as showing how rapidly capital and enterprize, judiciously applied, have developed the mineral riches of this place, which would otherwise have been still buried in the earth. A little over twenty years ago, there was hardly a house to be seen on the ground now honeycombed, through the instrumentality of steam, but it was not until the Midland railway was projected and carried out by the late George Stephenson, Esq., that the immense mineral resources of Clay Cross were fully developed, it having previously had no outlet, except by land or canal carriage. It may not be generally known that the strata or vein, of which the mines at Clay Cross form a part, is perhaps one of the most extensive in the world, occupying an area from N. to S. a distance of 65 miles, and its greatest width is 23 miles. The strata of the coal formation are very numerous, and the seams are about 30 in number, varying from 6 to 11 feet in thickness. About 1,200 men and boys are now employed at the “Clay Cross works,” and the average quantity of coals got annually is about 200,000 tons. The Company, in 1854, formed the resolution of building Schools for the education of the younger branches of the community, and which was carried into effect at a cost of from £3,000 to £4,000. The first stone of the schools was laid by Samuel Morton Peto, Esq., on the 15th August, 1854, and they were opened in August, 1855. They stand on rising ground and are a noble building highly ornamental to the place, and consist of a Public Room, in the centre of the same, 54 feet long by 25 feet wide, and 25 feet high on the wall, and lighted by three large semi-circular headed win­dows at the east end, and two double lights at the centre; at the farthest extremity of the room is a gallery, and under it are approaches, on one side to the Infant School, and on the other to The Library, 19ft. by 16ft. which contains 1818 volumes. On either side of this are the Boys’ and Girls’ schools, each respectively 50 feet by 30 feet. In immediate connexion

 

                                                                                WINGFIELD (NORTH) PARISH.                                      793

 

with which are Class-rooms, each 20 feet 6 inches by 17 feet, also lobby-entrances for hats, bonnets, &c., with lavatories opening into the same. In the centre of the building, over the gallery rises a tower 11 feet square, and 60 feet high, in which it is intended to place a clock and bell. The large area of ground in front of the building will be divided into two parts, the one will be formed into a pleasure ground, enclosed by a fence wall, and planted with, shrubs, and the other will be for a Recreation ground, to which the Com­pany’s servants will have free access. The schools are self-supporting, as every man and boy employed on the works contribute ld. per week each towards them. The average attendance of children is, 75 boys, 100 girls, and 160 infants. The Midland railway passes under the village by a tunnel of 2000 yards in length, and has a station about one mile North.

Deerleap, half mile S.W. from Clay Lane. Here was a Free School—(see charities). Holm Gate, half mile S.W., and New Market, a small village, one mile S.W. from Clay Lane. 

PILSLEY is a long scattered village and township, in a retired situation, 6 miles S. by E. from Chesterfield, and 1½ mile S.E. from North Wingfield, contains 1,554 acres of land, exclusive of roads, and in 1851 had 77 houses, and 403 inhabitants, of whom 216 were males, and 187 females; rateable value, £1,474. Tithes have been commuted for £267 6s. J. Sampson, Esq. is lord of the manor and owner; Luke Sampson, Wm. Drabble, and Edw. D. Sitwell, Esqs. with several others, are also owners. The Wesleyan Methodists have a small neat stone chapel here, erected in 1843, at a cost of about £110, which will accommodate about 100. This manor, Prinneslie, at the Domesday survey, belonged to Walter Deincourt, it was afterwards in the Foljambes, from whom it passed, by marriage, to the Plumptons, and was afterwards possessed by the Leakes. It was sold by the trustees of the Earl of Scarsdale, in 1743, to the Caltons, of Chesterfield. In 1799, it was sold to Mr. Thomas Wilson, from whom it passed by purchase to the present owner.

 

STRETTON township and small well built village, on the Chesterfield and Derby road, 6 miles S. from Chesterfield, and 2 miles S.S.W. from North Wingfield. The south ex­tremity of the village extends into the parish of Shirland. It contains 1652A. 2R. 11P of land, principally a cold clay soil, and in 1851, had 98 houses, and 456 inhabitants, of whom 239 were males, and 226 females; rateable value, £2450 13s. 1d. The principal owners are, Gladwin Turbutt, Esq., John Gratton, Esq., and Mr. Wm. Milnes; the former gentleman, with the Clay Cross Company, and the freeholders are joint lords of the manor. The Midland railway passes a little west of the village, and has a station here. Tithes were commuted in 1843, for £278 4s.; and here are 3A. 2R. 25P of glebe land.

Flax Piece, two farms, 1 mile N.N.E. from the village. Ford House, a neat mansion, is the property of Gladwin Turbutt, Esq., by purchase, from the heir of the late John Holland, Esq., and the residence of Thos. Langhorne, Esq. Handley, a hamlet of farm houses, 1 mile N.N.W. South Hill, a hamlet, 1 mile W. Timber Field House, half mile W. from the village, is the property and residence of Mr. John Grattan, gent. Woodhead,  two farms, 1¼ mile N.N.W.  Woolley Moor, a small hamlet, 1¼ mile S.W. by W. from Stretton.

 

TUPTON, a township and small agricultural village 4 miles S. from Chesterfield, and 1 mile W. from North Wingfield, contains 718A. 3R. 17p. of land, a strong soil, and in 1851 had 58 houses and 270 inhabitants, of whom 155 were males, and 115 females; rateable value £2209 6s. 8d. The principal owners are the Exors. of the late Sir Henry Hunloke, Bart., Frederick Packman, Esq., and Frederick Lord Clay, the former are lords of the manor. The tithes are commuted for £156 16s.. 6d. The Hall, a large mansion S. of the village, is the seat and property of Frederick Packman, Esq. Ankerbold, a large farm in the occupation of the Wingerworth Coal Co. The Midland railway occupies 20A. 3R 35P, of land in this township, and has a station about 1 mile east from the

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794                                                                          SCARSDALE HUNDRED.

 

village, known as Clay Cross station; near which is the brick, tile, and drain pipe manufactory of Mr. Richd. Metcalfe, of Woodthorp. Feast, Sunday before 28th Sept.

WOODTHORPE township and small village, on the east side of the Derby and Chesterfield road, with scattered farms, 4 miles south from Chesterfield and 1½ miles W. from North Wingfield, contains 1020A. 0R. 23P. of land, and in 1851 had 53 houses and 267 inhabitants, of whom 140 were males, and 127 females; rateable value £2210 17s. The Exors. of the late Sir Henry Hunloke, Bart., are the principal owners and lords of the manor. The tithes were commuted for £118 8s. A detached portion of the parish of Morton, amounting to 15A. 2R. 25P. is situated within this township. Feast, Sunday before 28th Sept.

CHARITIES.—Deer Leap School—By indenture, 1790, John Mottershaw conveyed to Anthony Lax Maynard and five others, a clear yearly rent charge of £15 15s. issuing out of one-third part of an estate situated at Clay Lane, containing in the whole 93 acres, upon trust, to appoint a schoolmaster to reside at Deer Leap, and should pay 10s. 6d. yearly for each scholar out of the said rent charge, so that there should not be less then 25, nor more than 30 scholars. The yearly rent charge is paid by the owner of the farm. The master instructs 25 children, and also provides them books. The £450 purchase money was raised by the following donations :—Thomas Milward, £150; John Brocksop. £150; William Webster; £45; Jeremiah Higginbotham, £30; John Mottershaw, £30; James Millward, £l5; and Edward Towndrow, £30. The above rent charge was sold in 1853, and the proceeds applied towards erecting the National schools at Clay Cross.

Rev. Thomas Luddington, by will, 1616, left the yearly sum of 50s. to pious uses, viz., 10s. to the poor, and 40s. to a schoolmaster to teach poor children. It appears £50 was laid out in 1698, in the purchase of a rent charge of 50s., issuing from an estate in Hasland, about 3A., called the White Banks; 40s. is paid for teaching 4 poor children, and the residue distributed to the poor.

  Thomas Dobb, in 1617, left £10, the interest to be paid to the poor.

  John Brailsford, by will, 1665, left £5 for the use of the poor. The sum of 15s. is paid out of the churchwarden’s account, and distributed on St. Thomas’s day:

  John Stephenson, in 1675, left £8 per annum in lands at Ashover Hill Top, to be given to the poor; £4 every fortieth day after Whitsuntide, and £4 every Christmas day.  The premises, about 22A., now belonging to this charity, have for many years been under the management of the churchwardens, and include an allotment set out upon the Ashover inclosure, and are let for £20 per annum, which is apportioned to the different parts of  the parish.

  Church Lands.—About 37A. of land lying in Pilsley, North Wingfield, and Handley, and Clay Lane, let for £46 per annum, is applied by the churchwardens agreeable to a decree by a Master in Chancery, made in 1797, whereby, it was declared that all necessary repairs for the parish church should in the first place be paid, and the surplus applied as the trustee and inhabitants should at a vestry meeting determine.

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

 William Stocks, by will, 1696, gave a rent charge of 10s. per annum, out of a close at Higham Hill, called South Field, for teaching two poor children of Smith Moor, or Clay Lane. The annual sum of 10s. is paid by Mr. John Rooth, in respect of a house and land, in the parish of Shirland, It is received by the parish clerk, who in consideration, instructs two poor children in reading.

There was in the hands of Mr. Richd. Clay, of the Hill, in Tupton, a sum of £20, given by some person unknown, for which he payed 16s. a year, as interest. There is also in the hands of the Exors. of the late Thomas Holmsfield, £20, for which he gave a promissory note, supposed to have been left by Joe Brailsford, and for which 18s. a year interest is

 

                                                 WINGFIELD (NORTH) PARISH.                                                          795

 

paid. These sums are paid to the overseers of Tupton, and distributed to the poor of the township.

 

NORTH WINGFIELD TOWNSHIP.

Those marked 1 reside at Williamthorpe, 2 Lings.

 

Bower Thos. vict., White Hart

Clay Jno. Wilkinson, Esq.

Clay Sampson, blacksmith

Drabble Thos., shopkeeper

Fearn Jno. Wm., civil engineer

Grassmoor Coal Co.; Barnes & Co., proprs.

Hopkinson Thos. farm bailiff

Hurt Abrm., parish clerk and schoolmaster

Jeffrey Robt., station master

Johnson Wm., schoolmaster

Knowles Luke & Co., colliery owners

Limb Thos., clerk

Lowe Rev. Edw. Walter, M.A., rector,

Mottershaw Jph., shoemaker

Mottershaw Richd., shoemaker

Todd Chas., butcher & shopkeeper

Walters John, shopkeeper

Ward John, colliery agent

Wingerworth Coal Co., Mr. Rd. Geo. Coke,

  colliery manager; Mr. Jno. Ward, agent

Woodward Wm., vict., Blue Bell

 

 

 

 

Farmers.

2 Bacon Jas.

Barker Robt.

Brocksopp Hy

2 Browne Fras.

Draycott Wm, (and

  beerhouse)

1 Farnsworth Ann &

  John.

1 Godber Jno.

1 Godber Wm.

Hollingworth M.

Holmes Adam

Holmes John

1 Hoole Saml

Limb Wm., (& beer

  house).

Pearce Jph.

Stringfellow Gervase

Stringfellow Hy.

1 Swift Thos.

Todd Chas.

Watson Herbert

Wilburne Geo

 

Railway Convey-

ance.

Midland Railway Sta-

  tion, 1 mile W. from

the village. Trains

to Derby, Sheffield,

Leeds, &c., 2 trains

up and 3 down daily,

and on Sundays, 2

each way. Mr.

Robt. Jeffrey, sta-

­tion master

         

 

CLAY CROSS TOWNSHIP.

Post Office, at Mr Thos. Dove’s. Letters arrive from Chesterfield at 7.30 a.m. and are dispatched at 5.45pm. Money Orders issued and paid.

 

Binns Charles, Esq., Clay Cross Hall

Dranfield Jph., clog maker

Evans Thos., clock and watchmaker

Elliott Thos., corn miller

Gibson Jph., furnace manager

Hedgelong Charles, master of Clay Cross

  schools

Holiday Edw. E., auctioneer

Hopkinson Matthew Thomas, corn & timber

  dealer, Woodthorpe House

Howe.Wm; engineer to Clay Cross Co.

Oldham Rev. Joseph, B.D., perpetual curate

Mackarsie Wm. Jno,, surgeon

Purdy Jno., saddler

Parker George, mining engineer

Saunders Wm., hairdresser .

Turner Benjamin, supt.at the Clay Cross

  Works

Snaith Wm. A., National schoolmaster

Udall Prestwood Jno., clothier & furniture

  dealer

White Mary, milliner and dressmaker

Wilkinson Henry L., engine smith

Wilkinson Thos., cashier to Clay Cross Co.

Willy Rev. Robert Charles, B.A., curate of

North Wingfield, and secretary to the

Associated Deaneries of Alfreton, Ash-

over, and Wirksworth

Wright Saml., stone engraver, Danes Moor

 

Inns and Taverns.

 

Angel Inn, John. Holmes

Blue Bell, Sarah Hazzledine

Buck, Robert Shore

Rose and Crown, Richard Woodward

George and Dragon, William Dore

New Inn, John W. Pendleton

 

Beerhouses.

Batemam Jno.

Dore Saml.

Hays Saml.

Marriott Abrm.

Rhodes Richd.

Walters Wm.

Wharton Geo.

Whileman Jno

Whitworth Wm.

Wilson Wm.

 

Blacksmiths

Turner Wm.

Wharton Geo.

White Joseph

 

Boot & Shoemkrs

Beastall Jno

Bennett Geo

Burns Martin       

Haslam Wm

Sears Wm.

Spencer Erasmus

 

Bricklayers

Griffin Jas.

White Thos

 

Brick Tile &Drain

Pipe Makers

Dore William

Froggatt Jno

Hays Joseph

 

Butchers

Holbrook Richd.

Roberts Saml.

Slack Wm.

Sterland Jno.

Taylor Peter

Thorpe Jno.

 

796                                                                          SCARDALE HUNDRED.

 

Coal and Ironstone Masters.

Clay Cross Company,

  Charles Binns, Esq.,

  Manager; Mr. Wm.

  Howe, engineer;

  Mr Thomas Wilkin-

  son, cashier; Mr. B.

  Turner, superinten-

  dent; Mr. Joseph

  Gibson, furnace

  manager; & Mr. Geo.

  Parker, mining en-

  gineer

Hayes Jph., (coal)

 

Drapers.

Crofts Joseph

Topham Jno & Wm.

 

Druggists.

Dove Thos.

Wilson Richd.

 

Farmers.

Binks Ann, Danes

  Moor

Cowley Thos. (and maltster)

Dore William

Fox Fras. Danes Moor

Froggatt Jno.

Gulliver Jno.

Hays Jph.

Holmes Jno.

Hopkinson Thos.

Hopkinson Matthew

  Thos., Woodthorpe

  house

Jackson Robt., Holme

  Gate

Lomas Hy., Holme

  Gate

Mason Geo.

Mycroft Matthew

Mycroft Wm.

Platts Jph. & Jno.

Rooth Benj., Holme

  Gate

Shimwell Wm., Holme

  Gate

Smith Jno., Holme

  Gate

Taylor Benj.

Taylor Jas., Handley

  Lodge

Taylor Wm.

Thorpe Wm., Stretton

  Hall

Wharton Geo.

Wilson Wm.

 

Green-grocers.

Rooth Joseph

Varley Thos.

 

Grocers and Pro-

vision Dealers.

Bailey Geo.

Bamford Jas.

Bamford Mary Ann

Bramley Hosea, (and

  baker)

Bramley Saml.

Greatorex Henry

Holmes Jph.

Robinson Jph.

Snibson Richd.

Stanesby Sarah

Thelwall Jno. (& baker)

 

Ironmongers.

Pickburn George Field

Martin Jas. M.

 

Joiners & Builders.

Bradley William

Cupit Geo., Danes

  Moor

Hazzledine Jno.

Hodgkinson Thos.

 

News Agents.

Plumbe Chas.

Wilson Geo.

 

Shopkeepers.

Brailsford Jno.

Kenning Eliz.

Marriott Adrm.

Rooth Saml.

Whileman Jno.

 

Tailors.

Bunting Arthur

Cousens Thos.

Curren Jon.

Hadfield Saml.

Slack Geo.

 

Wheelwright and Light Cart Bldr.

Bradley William

 

 

Railway Convey-

ance.

Midland Railway Co’s

  Station 1 mile N.

  from the village.

  Trains to Derby,

  Sheffield, Leeds &c.,

  2 up, and 3 down

  daily; and on

  Sundays 2 each way.

  Mr. Robt. Jeffery,

  station master

 

 

Carriers.

To Chesterfield: Geo. Wilson, Mon, Tues,

  Wed., and Sat.  T.

  Atkin, Mon., Tues.,

  Wed., and Sat.; and

  Saml. Rooth Wed.

  & Sat.; & to Mans-

  field, each of them

  on Thurs.

To Alfreton: Thomas

  Atkin, every other

  Friday

 

PILSLEY TOWNSHIP.

  

Bansall Geo., framework knitter

Beardmore Thos., beerhouse

Cutts Geo., schoolmaster

Drabble Alex., draper, &c.

Holehouse John, basket maker

Johnson Edmund, vict., Three Horse Shoes

Sampson John, brick and tile maker, Manor

  House

Waine Thomas, tailor

Woolley Thos., blacksmith

 

 

Farmers.

 Mkd * are Cowkprs.

Abbott Matthew

Bower Thomas

Bower Thomas

Clayton Robt.

Coup Jno.

*Coup Thos.

Cutts Aaaon

Cutts Benj.

Dannah John

*Dannah Jph

Hodgson George

Hollis John

Johnson Edmund

*Lindley Wm.

*Nix Brien

Machin Samuel

Parker Joseph

Sampson John, Manor

  House

Sampson Luke

Taylor Wm.

Wallis John

Walter Joseph

Wetton Thos.

*Wilson Edw.

Wilson Thos., Conney

  Green

Wilson Wm. Hy., (&

  land surveyor)

Shoemakers.

Hopkinson Jno.

Swain John

 

 

Shopkeepers.

 Bansall Solomon

Clay William

Nix Saml., (& butcher)

       

STRETTON TOWNSHIP.

Those Marked 1 reside at Flax Piece, 2 Ford, 3 Ford House, 4 Handley, 5 Smithy Moor, 6 South Hill, 7 Woodhead and 8 Wooley Moor.

 

Adlington John, higler

Board Chas, station master

Gratton John, gent., Timberland

Gratton Jph., Land surveyor, Timberland

Langhorn Thos., gent., Ford House

Inns and Taverns.

North Midland Inn, James Barton

Three Horse Shoes, Eliz. Ann Cutts, (and

  stone mason)

8 White Horse, John Hardwick

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Butchers

5 Sterland John

5 Sterland John Jun.

 

Farmers.

6 Bingham Geo.

4 Bradley Fras.

6 Bradley Geo.

4 Bradley Henry

4 Bunting Jph., (and

   shoemaker)

Cowlishaw John

Cutts James

8 Elliott Francis

8 Elliott George, (and

   beerhouse)

8 Elloit Peter

7 Greatorex Joshua

4 Hodgson Richd.

4 Hopkinson James

5 hopkinson John

Johnson Geo.

8 Lomas William

Marriott John

Marshall John

Milner Arthur

4 Milnes Thos.

Rooth John (& cattle

  dealer)

4 Slack Math.

2 Spencer James

5 Sterland John

5 Sterland John Jun

8 Stephenson Enoch

6 Taylor Joseph

1 Taylor Wm.

Thorp Richard

Walker Maria

7 Widdowson Geo.

Wilson Richd.

8 Wood John, (and

  corn miller)

1 Wooley Wm.

8 Wragg Thos.

6 Wright John

Wright Wm.

 

Shopkeepers.

March Sarah

8 Taylor Henry

Wooley Ann

 

Wheelwrights

8 Fox William

Hill Thos.

Railway Convey-

ance.

 

The Midland Rail­-
way Co.’s
station,
(North Branch).
There are three pas­-
senger trains to
Sheffield and the
North, and two to
Derby & the South
daily. On Sundays
there are two pass­-
enger trains each
way. Chas. Broad,
station master.

 

 

TUPTON TOWNSHIP.

Post Office, at Joseph Holmes’s; letters arrive from Chesterfield, at 7.20 a.m., and dispatched at 6 p.m.

 

 

Coke Richard George, colliery manager,

   Ankerbold

Ewing Mr. John

Holmes Joseph, shopkeeper

Marriott Win.. farm bailiff, Ankerbold

Metcalf Richard, brick, tile, drain, chimney,

  and every other description of pipes maker,

  Clay Cross Station

Nadin Isaac, vict., White Hart

Packman Fred., Esq., M.D., The Hall

 

 

 

 

 

Farmers.

Bowns Edwd.

Brunt John, (and

   sawyer)

Carline Wm

Harwood Edward

  Berwick, Hill

  House

Hodgkinson Wm.

Mather John

Noton Benjamin

Wilbourne John

Wingerworth Coal Co.

  Ankerbold

 

Wheelwrights.

 

Cocking John

 

Elliott Geo.

 

Parker Samuel

Rlwy. Conveyance

Midland Railway Co.

  station, 1 mile E.

  from the village;

  from whence there

  are two Up trains,

  and three Down,

  daily. Mr. Robert

  Jeffrey, station mstr

       

WOODTHORPE TOWNSHIP.

  

Froggatt John, vict., Rose and Crown

Hallows William, wheelwright and

  joiner

Metcalf Richard, vict., butcher, and brick

   and tile maker, Royal Oak

Stoppard Joseph, blacksmith

Ripley Daniel, corn miller

 

Farmers.

Brailsford Paul

Brailsford Mary

Bramley Jeremh.

Brassington Jph.

Crofts Wm.

Hodgson Robt.

Wilson Williams

Wright John

 

WINGFIELD (SOUTH), a parish and village, pleasantly situated on an eminence 2¼ miles W. from Alfreton, and 14 miles N. from Derby, and with Oakerthorpe, contains 3268A. 3R. 19P. of good arable and pasture land, inclusive of 934A. 0R. 34P. of land in the Great Park, and 199A. 0R. 16P. of land in the Little Park, both of which are tithe free; a small farm of 44A. 3R. 19P., being set apart for that purpose, and in 1851 it had 245 houses and 1092 inhabitants, of whom 530 were males and 562 females; rateable value, £6646 2s. The principal owners are R. C. Shelley, Esq., W. S. Leacroft, Esq.,

 

798                                                                          SCARSDALE HUNDRED.

 

R.  B. Leacroft, Eaq., Rev. Imanuel Halton, Rev. H. Pearson, the Duke of Devonshire, W. P. Morewood, Esq., and W. E. Nightingale, Esq. The landowners are lords of the manor. The Church, dedicated to All Saints, is situated at Oakerthorpe, ¼ mile E. of Wingfield, and the living is a vicarage, valued in the King’s book at £6 13s. 4d., now £324. The Duke of Devonshire, patron,, and the Rev. Imanuel Halton, M.A., incumbent. The Church is a neat structure, with nave, chancel, aisles, and square embattled tower, with 6 bells. The vicarage house is a little east of the church. The Wesleyan Methodists have a chapel, built in 1811. In 1839 the Free School was rebuilt by the Rev. I. Halton; the master receives £15 per annum, for teaching 26 poor children, and £10 is given to the poor.—(See Charities). Here are three extensive collieries, viz.: the High Field Oakerthorpe, and Wingfield collieries, the two former are worked by W. Worswick, Esq., and the latter by Mr. John Hopkinson. There are six different beds of coal in the parish, the principal of which are situated on the east side of the river Amber. The Midland railway passes through the parish and has a neat station at Oakerthorpe. Here is an Infant school, supported by John Smedley, Esq., and is used on the Sabbath day by the Wesleyan Reformers. The Ikneild street, a Roman road, passes through the parish. Prior to the Norman survey, Roger of Poictou, resided here; but at that period South Wingfield came into the possession of William Peverel, the natural son of William the Conqueror, who is said to have had a mansion house here. About the eighth year of Henry VI. it came into the possession of Ralph, Lord Cromwell, whose right was disputed by Henry Pierpoint, Knight, but on a compromise was allotted to thc former, who sold the reversion to John Talbot, second Earl of Shrewsbury, in whose family it continued until the death of the seventh Earl, in 1616, when the manor became divided between the Earls of Pembroke, Kent, and Arundel and Surrey, who had married the three daughters and co-heiresses of the Earl Gilbert. In the year 1666, Mr. Imanuel Halton, who was the first resident of that name, at Wingfield manor, was a celebrated Mathematician. In. the year 1676, he observed an eclipse of the sun, at Wingfield; his account of this phenomenon was published in the Philosophical Transactions for that year.

The Manor House, which even in its ruins, exhibits many specimens of its original magnificence, was built about the year 1440, by Ralph, Lord Cromwell, lord treasurer in the reign, of Henry VI. It afterwards came into the possession of the Earls of Shrewsbury; for George, Earl of Shrewsbury, died here 26th of July, in the 33rd year of Henry VIII. Another person of the same family and name, died here, in the 33rd year of Queen Elizabeth. This was most probably the Earl of Shrewsbury, who had the custody of Mary, Queen of Scotland. It is said that this unfortunate princess was con­fined here several years, and tradition informs us her suite of apartments were on the west side of the north court, said to be the most beautiful part of the building. This noble mansion was built round a large quadrangular court; it was castellated and embattled. At each corner stands a tower, but that at the south-west rises higher than the rest, and commands a very extensive prospect; it is now a ruin, and has not been occupied for more than eighty years. The Rev. Imanuel Halton is the owner, and resides in a house at a small distance from it, erected about the year 1780, by one of his ancestors. During the Civil Wars, in the reign of Charles I., the Manor House was attacked and taken by storm in 1643, by a party of Royalists, under the command of the Marquis of Newcastle. But shortly afterwards, Sir John Gell, of Hopton, an officer in the service of Parliament, sent Major Sanders, one of his officers, with a regiment of horse to attack them. The assault was begun on the east side, with cannon planted on Pentrich Common; but a breach here being found inpracticable, the ordnance was removed to a wood on the opposite side; from whence it played with such terrible effect that a breach was soon made, and the besieged were compelled to an immediate surrender. Colonel Dalby, the governor, was killed during the siege; he had disguised himself as a common soldier, but being seen and known by a deserter, he was shot by him in the face as he was walking in the stables. The manor house was well situated as a place of  defence; it stands on an eminence, which is steep on

 

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every side, excepting the north, where it was strengthened by a deep ditch, made nearly across the hill. A part of the bedstead, in which the Queen of Scots slept, when a prisoner here, is now in the possession of Mr. Joseph Cupit, at the Horse and Groom Inn.

Wingfield Park House, the residence of David Wheatcroft, Esq., is a neat mansion at the entrance into the park from the Chesterfield road. A beautiful lodge, in the decorated English style, has been erected. Wingfield Park Mill, 2 miles S.S.W. from Wingfield, and 2½ from Ambergate, is a lace thread manufactory. Wire Mill, 1 mile S. of Wingfield, is now a corn mill, in the occupation of Mr. G. Fletcher. The feast is on the 1st of November.

OAKERTHORPE, a hamlet and small village, ½ mile E. from South Wingfield. The Duke of Devonshire is lord of the manor, and the principal landowner. W. Worswick, Esq., has a colliery here; and ironstone is got to some extent here by Messrs. Henry Marshall, and Co. The South Wingfield railway station stands in this manor, and is dis­tant l¾ miles W. from Alfreton

The Oakerthorpe charity estate, now produces £55 a year, of which £20 is given to two deserving young men, after having served their apprenticeship, to assist them to com­mence in business, and £20 for exhibitions to two poor scholars at Cambridge university, and the remainder is given to the poor. (See Charities.)

CHARITIES.—Samuel Newton, of the island of Barbadoes, by will, 1683, directed that his executors should purchase a piece of land, of the value of £10 yearly, for the use of the poor of South Wingfield and Oakerthorpe. By indenture, 1692, Samuel Guy and Thomas Gell, in consideration of £210 conveyed a close called the Barn close, containing nine acres, with a barn thereon, situate in Wirksworth. The vicar, churchwardens, and overseers of the poor, were authorised to let the premises, and divide the rents according to the said will. The property consists of two closes of pasture land, let for £25 8s. per annum, and an allotment set out on Wirksworth Moor, of 1A. 1R., let for £2 5s. per annum; and the rents are disposed of as follows: An annual sum of £10, subject to 5s. deduction for expenses, is given to the poor of this parish, including Okerthorpe, and £17 is paid to a schoolmaster. Previously to 1820, there was an ancient school room, supposed to have been built on the waste, to which, about 1797, a dwelling-house for the master was added by the parish from 1820 to 1825, the sum of £100 11s. had accumulated from reserved rents, for re-building the school, but objections were raised as to this application of the money, and in June, 1825, a new schoolmaster was appointed, who receives £17, and has instructed 26 children in a house rented by himself. By a decree of commissioners of charitable uses, held at Derby, 8th of February, 1729, it was ordered that two-thirds of the rents should be distributed amongst the poor of South Wingfield, and one-third amongst the poor of Oakerthorpe. The dwelling-house which adjoined the old school is let for £4 10s. per annum, and carried to the surplus fund.

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

Phillip Strelley’s charity, of which certain members of the Goldsmith’s Company are trustees. The estate, from which an annual rent of £55, received by the trustees, is situated in the manor of Oakerthorpe, in this parish; and he directed £20 per annum to be paid for placing out two poor men’s sons as apprentices; and £10 per annum given in ex­hibitions for two poor scholars in the universities of Cambridge or Oxford; a preference to be given to the sons of his tenants, born within the manor of Oakerthorpe.

Post Office, at Samuel Taylor’s; letters arrive from Alfreton, at 8 a.m., and are despatched at 7 p.m.

 

Those Marked 1 reside at Oakerthorpe; 2 Wingfield Park; the other at Wingfield, or where specified.

 

Booth Sarah, draper

Bramley Mrs. Ann

Bramley George, quarry owner

Cockayne Luke, baker

Cupit Mrs. Rebecca

1 Fowell Edmund & Son, nursery & seedsmen

 

800                                                                          SCARSDALE HUNDRED.

 

Giles Charles, station master

Hall Wm. Fdk., auctioneer, Dale House

Halton Rev. Imanuel, B.D., vicar

Harvey George, surveyor and assistant over-

  seer, Swine Flatts

Hopkinson John, coal master, Wingfield

  Colliery

1 Marshall Henry & Co., ironmaster, Oaker­-

  thorpe; h. Wingfield Cottage

Newton Abel, master Free School

Otter Francis, Esq.

Radford Wm., sawyer

1 Strelley Mrs. Hannah, Holly Bank House

Turner Daniel, castrator

Turner George, higler

Wheatcroft David, Esq., Wingfield Park

Williamson Mr. Matthew

Wilson Wm. & Sml., lace & thread mnfrs.

Worswick Wm., coal master, High Field

  and Oakerthorpe Collieries; John Lees,

  manager

 

Inns and Taverns.

Anchor, George Godber, Oakerthorpe

Blue Bell, Frederick Summerton

Butcher’s Arms, Mary Shaw, Oakerthorpe

Crown, Robert Hill, Bunker’s Hill

Horse and Groom, Joseph Cupit

Horse and Jockey, Benj. Faulkner

1 Peacock, Sarah Hoyland, Oakerthorpe

 

Beerhouses.

Froggatt Christopher

1 Marples Joseph

1 Simpson John

 

Blacksmiths.

Clarke James

Harvey James

Hopkinson Thomas

Slimm Wm.

 

Butchers.

Harvey William

Purdy James

Taylor Samuel

 

Farmers.

Argile Thos., Hill top

Barlow Samuel

Beastall William

Blore John

2 Booth Joseph

Bramley Samuel

2 Bramley Richard

Cupit Edward

2 Dawson Wm.

Eyre Herbert,

  Catchills

Flint Joseph

Flint William, More-

  wood Moor

Ford William, The

  Manor

2 Gregory Benj.

2 Hall John

Harvey James

Haslam William,   

  Longcroft house

1 Hollingworth Wm.

Hopkinson John,

  Uftonfields

1 Hoyland Sarah

Hunt William

Limb Job, Morewood

  moor

2 Lyman James

2 Machin Jabez

Milner Arthur

2 Otterwell Isaac,

  Park head (and

  corn miller)

Purdy James

Pearson John, Ufton-

  fields

Smith Charles, More-

  wood moor

Steples John

Strelley R. C.

2 Swindall Samuel

Taylor Emanuel

Taylor Samuel

Taylor Samuel, (and;

  quarry owner)

2 Tomlinson Henry

2 Tomlinson Jph.

Wheeldon Thomas,

  Morewood moor

Williamson Richard,

Shoemakers.

1 Coupe Robert

Ludham Charles

Walters James

Shopkeepers.

Cupit Joseph

Froggatt, Christopher

1 Godber Isaac

Platts Samuel

Wheelwrights.

1 Saxton Matthew

Smith George

Wetton Thomas

Railway Cnvynce.

The Midland Rail­-

  way Co’s. Station;

  there are 5 passngr.

  trains to Sheffield

  and the North, and

  4 passenger trains

  to Derby and the

  South, daily, and on

  Sundays, 3 passen­-

  ger trains for the

  North and 2 passen­-

  ger trains for the

  South; Chas. Giles,

  station master

 

 

 

 

 

FINIS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

J. WARD, PRINTER, LANDS LANE, LEEDS.