Burton directory, 1857

(a) The returns for Dethick and Lea, include the hamlet of HoUoway.

CbJ The townships of Shirebrook and Stoney Houghton are included in the returns for Pleasley.

CcJ The hamlet of Higham is returned with Shirland.

ALFRETON is an extensive parish, 14 miles N.N.E. from Derby, 9| miles E. by N. from "Wirksworth, and 140 miles N.N.W. from London by road, and 138 by railway. It contains the township of Alfreton, with the hamlets of Oreenhill Lane, Somer cotes, Pyehridge, Sivamuick, Riddings, and Ironvillef but the two latter have been recently made into separate Ecclesiastical districts; consists of 4,570 acres of land, and in 1851

Alfreton, a township and market town, pleasantly situated on the brow of a hill, consists of two good streets, intersecting each other at right angles in the Market place, and is well paved and lighted with gas. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in the collieries and iron works of the neighbourhood, or in stocking weaving ; besides which, here are a few malting establishments in the town, which was anciently noted for its ale. The Market is held on Friday; and Fairs, July 31st, (which is very large for cattle and horses,) and a hiring statute, on Noyember 24th; with smaller fairs ou January 26th,

Easter- Tuesday, WHit-Tuesday, and October 6th. Wm. Palmer Morewood, Esq., is lord of the manor and principal owner. Eev. John Wood, Chas. Seely, Esq., Jas. Oakes, Richard and Thomas Elnor, Esqrs. are also owners. The Church, dedicated to St. Martin, is an ancient building of various styles, apparently built at different periods, consists of nave, chancel, and side aisles, with a handsome tower, and five beUs. The living is a vicar- £200 ; it has been augmented with £200 benefactions, and £200 Queen Anne's bounty. Wm. Palmer Morewood, Esq., is the patron, and the Rev. John Chas. Hall Deacon, M.A., the incumbent, who has 12a. of glebe. The Vicarage is a good residence, near the east side of the church. On the north wall of the chancej. is a stone slab, into which brasi figures of two persons, in a kneeling position, have been inlaid, which, according to a brass tablet are the effigies of John Armond and Joan his wife, who died, the former in 1603, and the latter in 1507. In the north aisle, are beautiful monuments to the Morewood family. The tithes were commuted for £642 9s. lid.

The National Schools, with residence for the master, are situated on Sheldon road, and were erected in 1846, at a cost of £1,200, raised by subscriptions, aided by a grant of £350 from the Committee of Council on Education. It is a handsome brick building in the Elizabethan style of architecture, capable of accommodating 250 children. It is a mixed school, and the average attendance is about 100.

The Independents have a handsome chapel in Church street, erected in 1850, at a cost of £1000 ; will seat about 300 persons; the Rev. Alfred Crisp is the pastor. The Wesleyan Methodists chapel, Chapel street, was built in 1 809, and with the galleries, will seat about 500 persons. The General Baptists had a chapel liere, but which for the last six years has been occupied by the Primitive Methodists, it is situated on the Ncsbit road. The Wesleyan Reformers occupy a room iu the Red Lion yard.

The Town Hall, a handsome brick building, erected in 1856, by W. P. More- high, which is appropriated for pablic meetings, concerts, balls, &c., underneath which, on the basement story, are the various offices connected with the county court, magis- tracy, and petty sessions. It is a great ornament to the town, and reflects much credit on the architect, Mr. Benjamin Wilson, of Alfreton.

Petty Sessions are held at the Town haU on the 2nd and 4th Friday in the month, and the presiding 'magistrates are, W. P. Morewood, Esq., G. Turbutt, Esq., William Milnes, Esq., and Alfred Jas. Oakes, Esq. ; Mr. Benj. S. Rickards is their clerk.

The Mechanics' Institution, established in 1856, is held in a room in the Red Lion yard, in connection with which is a small library of about 100 volumes of books. Rev. A. Crisp is the president, and Mr. W. C. Briggs, libraiian.

The Savings' Bank, established May, 1845, is at Mr. Samuel Rowbottom's, the actuary, and is open on the first and third Fridays in every month, from half-past one to half-past two o'clock. On the 20th Nov., 1855, the balance due to 466 depositors wai

The Lock-up, a substantial brick building, erected in 1844, cost upwards of £600, and consists of four cells, with a residence for the superintendent constable.

The Stamp Office is at Mr. Brudenell Sharp's, Market place.

Gas WoThs were erected here in 1848, by a company of shareholders. The annual consumption of gas is about 674,000 cubic feet.

County Court. - The New Small Debts' Act, or County Courts. This important act which superseded the Court of Requests, came into operation on the 15th March, 1847. Alfreton County Court is held at the Town hall, monthly, and comprises the following district: - Alfreton, Annesley, Ashover, Bagthorpe, Birchwood, Blackwall, Brackenfield, Butterley, Codnor, Codnor Park, Crich, Felley, Fritchley, Greenhill Lane, Higham,

Ironville, Kirkbv, Kirkby Woodhouse, Morton, Nc\rton, Normanton (Soutli), Okerthorpe, Pentrich, Hartsliay, Pilslcy, Pinxton, Riddings, Ripley, Selstou, Shirland, Somereoateo, Stretton, Swanwick, Tibshelf, Underwood, AVessington, Wheatcroft, AVingfield (Soutli), Wood Linkin, WooUey Moor, J. T. Cantrell, Esq., Judge ; Philip Hubbersty, Esq., of Wirksworth, and Michael Jessop, Esq., Alfreton, arc Reyktrars ; and Mr. Wm. Marsh, Wirksworth, High Bailiff.

The Pinxton Canal passes through the parish, and the Midland Railway on its western verge, having a station If miles west of the town. This town, anciently called Alfre- dingtune, is supposed to have been built by, and derived its name from King Alfred, the site of whose palace is still pointed out. Robert, the son of Ranulph, lord of Alfreton, was one of the four knights who murdered Thomas a-Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury. In expiation of his guilt, he founded the monastery of Beauchief, to which he gave this chiirch. Alfreton, by marriage, afterwards came into the possession of the family of Chaworth, one of whom was a considerable benefactor to this religious house. The rec- tory of Alfreton, with the advowson of the vicarage, was granted by Henry VIII. to Francis Leake, Esq., v/hose descendant, Nicholas, Earl of Scarsdale, sold them, in 1673, to John Turner, of Swanwick, gent. The rectorial tithes were sold by auction, about the year 1779, chiefly to the several landowners. The advowson of the vicarage was pur- chased by Geo. Morewood, Esq. The land is all freehold, and abounds in coal and

The manor of Alfreton was given by Wulfric, a noble Saxon, and confirmed by Ethelred II., to Burton Abbey. At the Domesday survey, it was held by Ingham, under Roger de Busli. This Ingram was the immediate ancestor of Robert Fitz- Ranulph, or Fitz-Ralph, lord of Alfreton, who founded Beauchief Abbe5^ His de- scendants were denominated De Alfreton. On the death of his great grandson, in 1296, this manor descended to Thomas de Chaworth, his nephew, and Robert de Latham, who had married one of his sisters and coheiresses, to whom a market was granted in 1251. Chaworth purchased Latham's moiety, and was summoned to parliament as a baron in 1296. William Chaworth, Esq., the last of this branch of the family left an only daughter and heir in the reign of Henry VII., married to John Ormond, Esq., whose heiress brought it to Sir Anthony Babington, of Dethick. Henry Babington. Esq., the grandson, sold it, about the 1565, to John Zouch, Esq., of Codnor. His son sold it, in 1618, to Robert Sutton, Esq., of Aram, in Nottinghamshire, by whom it was sold, in 1629, to Robert Morewood, Esq., in whose family it continued, and was their residence, till the death of Geo. Morewood, Esq., the last heir male in 1792. His widow, who enjoyed the estate imder his bequest, married the Rev. Henry Case, who in 1793, previous to his man-iage, took the name (rf Morewood, by the King's sign manual.

Alfreton Farli, on the west side of the town has been the seat of the JMorewood family for upwards of a century. It contains a large handsome stone mansion, beautifully situated on a good clovatioUj v.hich is seen to great advantage from tlio Derb}^ road. In 1855-6, great alterations were made to the mansion from tho designs, and under the superintendence of Mr. Benj. Wikon. architect, by its present possessor, Wm. Palmer Morewood, Esq.

Greenhill Lane, is a large, improving, but scattered district, 2| miles S.E. from Alfreton, and half a mile N. from Riddings. The Wcsleyan Reformers have a neat chapel found an urn containing about 700 Roman coins here.

NcwlandSy forming a part of Greenhill Lane, and near to Riddings, consists of several cottages and a farm, the property of James Oakcs, Esq., also a good Inn, occupied by Mr. Richard Elnor. "^e Primitive Methodists have a small chapel hcrc.

RiDDDfos ia a considerftblo village, situnfted on a new line of road from Nottiagham to Manchester, 3 miles S.W. by S. ixKim llfe'oiwn, was anciently a chapeky, bit the ohajyel

has long since been demolished. It is now an Ecclesiastical district, which consists of Riddings, Greenhill Lane, south-east part of Swanwick, Birchwood, nearly all Somcrcotes and Pye Bridge, with a population in 1851 of 3800 souls ; for whom a Church, accommodate 1000 persons; upwards of 600 sittings are free. It is a handsome stone edifice, in the early English style, with nave, chancel, and lofty spire, with one bell. The commissioners under the late act for promoting the building of additional churches and chapels, furnished £2000 towards the expense, £1000 was raised by subscription, and the remainder from other societies. The living is a perpetual curacj^ of the value of £150. The vicar of Alfreton is patron, and the Bev. Arthur Chas. Pittar, B.A., incumbent.

Handsome National Schools, with a residence for the master, were built in 1845, at a cost of £2000, raised by subscriptions, aided by a Parliamentary Grant of £245 ; about 64 boys, 45 girls, and 100 infants attend. The Wesleyan Methodists' chapel, rebuilt in 1838, is a large brick building, capable of seating 400 persons. The Independent chapel, erected 1821, was enlarged 1839, and will now seat 400 persons. The Bev. Thos. CoUedge is the pastor. The Baptist chapel, enlarged about 1833, is now a good brick edifice which

The Alfreton Iron Works in this liberty, are carried on by Messrs. James Oakes and Company. A Branch of the Cromford Canal, connected with Mansfield by a railway, which passes through it. A market has been 'established, and is held on Saturday. Biddings House is the seat and property of James Oakes, Esq. The manor of Bydinge was held by the Cha worth family, with Alfreton. In 1817 it was the property of Laun- celot BoUeston, Esq., of Watnall; but is now held by Jas. Oakes, Esq.

Ironville, a part of the Biddings manor, together with Codnor Park, a rapidly improv- ing and important district, was made into a new Ecclesiastical District parish, in June, 1850, with a population in 1851 of 2276 souls. It forms the south-east extremity of the parish, and also of the Hundred of Scarsdale, 3| miles S.E. from Alfreton, having the Cromford Canal, which here enters the Erewash Canal, on the south. The Pinxton Canal also commences here. This forms part of a very busy and populous district, em- ployed in the Iron "Works and Furnaces for smelting iron ore. Immense quantities of ironstone are obtained in the immediate neighbourhood, and of Codnor Park, which adjoins Ironville on the south. These establishments formed about 1801, have greatly increased the population, which was, prior to that period, but small, though in early ages Biddings was a place of great consequence. The Church, dedicated to Christ, was built in 1852, at a cost of £6000, by the Butterley Iron Company ; it is a handsome stone structui'e, with nave, transepts, chancel, and tower, with one bell ; and contains about 540 sittings, of which 300 are free. An orgao^as put up at the same time, at a cost of £200 by subscrip- tion. In tlie chancel are three beautiful stained glass windows, in memory of the late Wm. Jessop, Esq. The living is a perpetual curacy, valued at £150, in the patronage of Eras. Wright, Esq., and incumbency of the Bev. John Casson, B.A. New National Schools for boys, girls, and infants, were also erected here in 1850, by the Butterley Iron Company, aided by a Parliamentary Grant of £490. It is a substantial brick building, capable of accommodating 100 boys, 80 girls, and 250 infants, the average attendance is about 200. In August, 1843, an artizans' and mechanics' library was opened here ; it has Gl members, and a library of 600 volumes ; Mr. Geo. Cotterell, librarian.

SoMERCOTES, is a large village, on the Nottingham road, 2 miles S.E. from Alfreton, and 14 miles N.W. from Nottingham. A Chapel of Ease to Biddings, dedicated to St. Thomas, was formed here in 1854. It was formerly used as Methodist Chapel, but was purchased by subscription for about £400, and after imdergoing the necessary alterations and improvements was dedicated as above. It is now a neat brick and stone edifice, with turret and one bell, and will scat about 600 persons, there if|» a burial ground attached of about one acrCo The Wesleyau Eeformers' chapel, situated in Birchwood lane w^s erected by John Smedley, Eis'q., of Lea Bridge. It is a handsome building with towei:

and one bell. In connection with which, is a good school, eligible for all the children in the village. The school-room is lighted with gas and heated with hot water, will accom- modate about 200 children ; average attendance 125. The Primitive Methodists have a )Steam Mill, was erected by Mr. John Chadborn ; it is of 12 horses power, and works three pairs of stones. About 1 mile N.W. is Cotes Parky a rapidly improving district, contain- ing two extensive collieries and a few farms. J. H. Barkci", and Charles Scely, Esqrs. are the owTiers. To the N.E. of the village is a small district called Nether Birclnvoody and 3 miles S.E. fi'om Alfreton is Pye Bridge, a railway station on the Erewash Branch of the Midland Railway, from whence there are trains to Mansfield, Nottingham, and Derby, three times a day. A Sick Society is held here at the Dog and Doublet Inn.

SwANWiOK, a hamlet and populous village on the Derby road, 1| miles S.W. from Alfreton, 7 miles N.N.E. from Belper. W. P. Morewood, Esq., and Haslam Brothers have collieries here, and are considerable owners. The Wesleyan Methodists' chapel. Sleet seat about 400 hearers. The Particular Baptist chapel, Sleet Moor, built in 1796, and enlarged in 1828, at a cost of £650, is a large brick edifi.ce, with accommodation for 600 persons ; it has a small burial ground attached. The Primitive Methodists have a small chapel built in 1849. A Church is intended to be built here very shortly, subscriptions towards which have already been commenced and for which a site has been given by the Eev. John "Wood, who resides at the Hall, a neat brick mansion a little south-east from the village. The Grange^ 2~ miles S. from Alfreton, is a neat modem mansion, the property of G. C. Hall, Esq., and the residence of "Wm. Needham, Esq. At the Grove half a mile east of Swanwick, is a good free school and residence for the master, founded in 1740 by Mrs. E. Turner; 40 children are educated free, - (See charities). Sleet Moor, a district N.'W. Somercotes. About 1 mile S.E. oi MivQi<m.\\e& the Swanwick Colliery, the property of William Palmer Morewood, Esq. The superior quality of this coal has induced a number of persons to vend a veiy inferior article in its name, in places where it has never been introduced. The seam is about five feet in thickness, and is raised to the surface by a small engine of eight horses' power. The works are kept dry by an engine of forty horses' power, which is also assisted in very wet weather by a smaller one. The coal is conveyed by railway first to the summit of an inclined plane, by means of a small engine of eight horses' power, the waggons being attached to a wire rope, about 400 yards long. On the summit is a wharf for the sale of coal, near to which is the Alfreton Old Poorhousc, converted into cottages since the New Poor Law came into operation. The situation of the Avharf and poorhouse is called Sleet Moor, and about Mtj years ago it was a wide common which was used as a race course. The Cromford Canal, at the Swanwick wharf, separates the parishes of Alfreton and Pentrich. The South Wingfield station, on the Midland Railway is distant about two miles.

GnkjaTiE^.- "Margaret Reynolde in 1621, gave a rent cliarge of 20s. j-early, out of the Leader Close, to be distributed at the feast of St. Thomas, and on Good Friday to the

George Turner in 1641, gave to the vicar of Alfreton 10s. yearly, for preaching a sermon on the 5th of November, and an amiual sum of 20s. to the poor on the same day. 15s. is paid from some closes near Sleet Moor, and 15s. from some land, the property of the Rev. John Wood. 10s. is paid to the vicar, (though no sennon is preached), and 20s. is distributed, in sums from Is. to 2s. amongst the poor.

Rotoland Morewood, Esq., in 1647, left a rent charge of £5 per annum, issuing out of land called the Drunken Closes, for the benefit of the poor. By indentures, 1736, Samuel Dalton, Esq. conveyed to trustees lands called the Wheat Fields, Over Housteads, in Birchwood, and the Drunken Closes, in Alfreton, on trust fqr the poor. In 1 77 1 , an information was filed by the Attorney-General against George Morewood, Esq., in order to establish the charity by a decree of ths court. The defendant, George Morewood, set

forth by his answer, 1772, that the mention of the Drunken Closes in the deed of 1736 was a mistake, that in the year 1659, the sum of £100 had been laid out by his ancestors for the £5 payable out of those closes. In 1774, however, it was decreed that the Drunken Closes were part of the charity estate, which now consists of 27a. Oh. Up., with a cottage and a barn ; the rents, amounting to £39, are distributed in sums varying from 5s to 15s. There is a bed of coal on the estate, and timber to the amount of £54 has been sold.

John LudlamSn 1684, charged his lands at Newton with the payment of 50s. per annum to the most necessitous poor of ScarlifF, 10s. to the poor of Bakewell, and 10s. to poor persons in Alfreton Eiddings.

Thomas Hunter in 1735, gave his cottage and lands, near Windmill Hill, on trust for the use of the poor of Alfreton, Kilburn, Horslcy, Horsley AYoodhouse, Ripley, and Wessington, and 10s. yearly to the vicar for preaching a sermon on the day on which he was buried. The rent of the estate is £12 per annum, of which the share of Alfreton is

Jane Boot in 1795, bequeathed 203. per annum out of premises in Alfreton to 20 poor widows, to be distributed at the tombstone of her late husband in Alfreton church-

Adam Parker in 1800, devised his estate at Shirland, on trust, to pay five guineas to 20 poor widows ; he also left the chui'chwardens and overseers 5s. yearly for their trouble. The Shad well Plots and Park Closes are subject to the payment.

Bev. Francis Gisborne's Charity. - (See Bradley.) - The annual sum of £5 10s., received by the vicar, is expended in warm clothing, and given to the poor.

Siaanioick School. - George Turner conveyed a piece of land, to the intent that a charity school should be erected theron. Elizabeth Turner, widow, in 1740, conveyed the sum of £457 17s. new South Sea annuities, on trust, to sell the same, and purchase lands out of the rents thereof, to pay £15 for the instruction of 12 children, Swanwick and Greenhill Lane always to have the preference - the surplus to be laid out in such charitable uses as the trustees shall think fit. In 1741, a sum of £500 arising from the sale of the stock, was invested in 43a. 2r. of land in Swanwick, and in 1816 an allotment was made to the trustees of 2a. 2r. 1 8p. The schoolmaster occupies the estate, and instructs 40 poor children in reading, wiiting, and arithmetic. About 4a. of the land has been much injured by coal being got under it. Under an ancient grant from Sk John Zouch, in 1618, to the Morewood family, they are considered to be entitled to v/ork the coals in various lands in Alfreton without making any compensation to the owner.

Post OfficQ, at Thomas T. Cutlers; letters arrive from all parts at 2 a.m., and are despatched at 11 i).m. Letters from the north arrive at 6 a.m., and are despatched at 6 . 54

Morewood William Palmer, Esq., The Park, and Ladbroke Hall, Warwickshire

Bacon Samuel, licensed to let horses for hire, and mouminf; coach and hoarse

Barlow James Charles, carver, gilder, look- ing glass and picture frame maker

Birkin James, sinker maker

Bland Samuel, vet. surgeon

Bullivent Charles, surveyor &; builder

Buraham John, board k lodging house

Case Robert, tobacconist

Clark Wm., clerk, Cotes Park Collienj

Crisp Kev. Alfred, (Ind.)

Deacon Kev. John Charles Hall, M.A, vicar

Eaton Joseph, basket maker Elliott Wm. Ilov/land, clo^' maker Everingham Wm., cooper Green Thos. & Geo., curriers & leather cutra Ilaskins Arthur, inland rev. olficer Heffield Edward, farm bailiff, Cotes Park HiU Wm., wheelwright Holmes John, gent, Houghton WiUiam, colliery manager, Swan'

tcich Colliery Jones Rev. John, Edward, curate Laugham Thomas, maaiagcr, Cotee Park

(Mtiorpi h. Fin&ittjn

Lees Jolin, mining engineer and manager at tlie Highfield and Oakertliovpe Marsden Saml., butler, The Park Parker Sarah, herbalist Radford Joseph, bailiff, Cotes Park Colliery Radford Mrs. Mary Rolling Euphemia, wine & spirit merchant,

and brewer Rowbottom Samuel, bookseller, printer,

Rickards Benj., solicitor Rickards Benj. Samuel, solicitor and clerk

to magistrates Rolley John, parish clerk Seeley Charles & Co., fire brick makers &

colliery owners. Cotes Park Colliery Shelton Mrs. Hannah

Sheppard John, clothes dealer & needle mk. Smedley John, com miller Ward Richard, whitesmith, locksmith, and

Wass Math., cutlery [^dealer

Wilson Miss Ann

Wilson Benjamin, architect & surveyor,

land and timber agent & valuer Wilson John, timber agent and valuer,

Sycamore Cottage Wilson Miss Sarah Wilson Wm. Esq., banker

Hotels, Inns, and Taverns,

Angel, Wm. Rolling

Blue Bell, George Radford

Castle Commercial Hotel, Danl. Townsend

George & Dragon Commercial & Posting

Hotel, Samuel Jepson, and licensed to let

post horses j King's Head, S. Webster Plough, Wm. Fletcher Queen's Head, John Peach Red Lion, Thomas Shaddock Royal Oak, Eliz. Smithurst Three Horse Shoes, James Kemp Waggon & Horses, Wm. Sampson

Mkd. * are Boarding.

Carey Sarah

* Crisp Emily National^ Wm, and

Mary Ann Balfry

* Slater Eliz. & Sarah Taylor Eliza

Hall Gervasc Cressy, (& commissioner for taking acknowledg- ments of deeds of married women, and clerk to the Alfrcton Derby, &c. turnpike

Jessop Miuhrel

Rickards and Son

Wood John

Auctioneers and

Bacon Samuel Denham Charles

Bakers & Flour

Mkd* are Confection- ers also.

Clark Samuel Dawes Thomas *Hill Charles Simpson John Hy.

Nottingham ^ Nott- inghamshire Bank- (draw on London & Westminster Bank) Jas. Carter, agent

Wilson & Son, (draw

Savings' Bank, (open on the first & third Fridays in every month, from halt- past 1, to half-past 2 o'clock,) Samuel Ruwbottoni, actuary

Dunn George Goodwin Thomas Hodgkinson Edwaid,

Sleet Moor Moore Wni. Radford Edmund Taylor Jane Webster Samuel Wragg William

Godber Henry Wragg John

Boot & Shoe Mkrs.

Cockayne Thomas

Famsworth George Goodall Samuel Moore William Pearson George Wintei bottom James

Braziers and

Gibson (Wm.) and Rawson (Fras.)

Gibson William

zinc, and iron plate

Pickburn Willoughby

Wilbourn Joseph

Peach John Sutcliff Stephen

Abbott Samuel Barratt Samuel Cupit Henry Elnor John Kemp James Redford Samuel Taylor Fanny Webster John Webster Samuel

Chemists &Drgsts

Coates Samuel Walters Henry & Son

Abbott Samuel Annable Mary,

Barratt Samuel Clark Samuel Elnor John Evans Luke, Outseats Holmes John Jepson Samuel Nix Thomas, Outseats Oldfield Wm., Sleet

Peacli John Radford Griffin Sampson William Smith Hannali Stanley Thomas Webster Samuel White Jph., Outseats

Fire & Life Offices

European (Life) Saml.

Medical Invalid and

General (Life) ; Jas.

NorAvich Union; S.

Phoenix (Fire) ; Benj.

Wesley an & General ;

teant Peter

Parsons Thos., (and

China, Glass, and Earthenware Dlrs

Gibson William

Grocers and Tea

Blackshaw James Clark Sauiucl Evans Henry Pym Benjamin Scliofield Alfred Swindell Samuel., High street

Cox John Parsons William

Hosiery Mnfrs.

(and Belper)

BeJj)er)

Roberts Joshua Simpson John, (and

Gibson (Wm.), and Eawson (Fras.)

Haynes James, (and dealer in agricultral implements, and oil and grease mer-

Pickburn Willoughby

Joiners «& Cabinet

Bacon Samuel Lesson Anthony

Linen and Wooiln.

Jackson William Roberts Joshua Sharp Brudenell, (and

stamp office) Topham John & Wm.

(& silk mercers)

Jepson John Radford George Stanley Thomas Towndi'ow Wm., (and

flour dlr.) Williamson Robert

Milliners & Dress

Farnsworth Ann Spencer Phoebe

Garratt James Garratt Rowland

Plumbers and

Burnliam Septimus & Henry, (& painters)

Clee Samuel Lauer Francis

Saddlers and Har- ness Mkrs.

Dawes Henry, (late J.

Thirkill Emanuel

Seeds Mchts.

Pym Benjamin Sampson "William Walters Henry & Son,

(and ale and portei

Dawes Thomas

Fell Marshall, (and

rope maker) Goodall Samuel Milward Mary Sriiedley Ann Wragg James, (and

Smallware Dlrs.

Handbury George Roberts Joshua Simpson John

Strav/ Hat Makrs.

Simpson John Steer Maiy Ann Wrigglesworth Eliza

Rickards Henry Spencer Griffin Turner John, sen. Willis Charles

Tailors «fc Drapers.

Marked * are Tailors

*Blackshaw James *Buxton Charles Inchbold Emanuel James John

i *Wheatcroft William Wray William *Wragg Thomas

Tallow Chandlrs.

Evans Henry Topham George, (and

dealer in blasting

Watch and Clock

Bowen David Evans John

Wine, and Spirit

Rolling Euphemia, (&

To YV^ingfield Station, from the George and DragOD Commercial Hotel, to meet the arrival and depar- Samuel Jepson, pro-

Carriers from the

Belper, Hanh. Smith,

Chesterfield, Henry Handbury, Tu. Th. and Sat.

Codnor Park, G. Rad- ford, daily

Derby, Samuel Bacon,

Mansfield, H. Smith,

Marked * are at Newlands. Post Office at Henry Neale's; letters arrive from Alfreton at 8.15 a.m., and are

Belcher, Henry, siirgeon

* Chamberlain Henry, farm bailift"

Colledge Rev. Thos.,* (Ind.)

"*Elnor Thomas, gent.

Evans iJenry, jun., builder. iScc.

Evans Joseph, builder, contractor, and

Evans Henry, gent.

Frctwell Wm., stonemason & builder

Kirk Francis, gent.

Mather Francis, registrar of births, deaths, and marriages for Alfreton district; wholesale ale and porter merchant, and agent to the Nottiugamshire & Derby- shire Fire & Life Ofl&ce

Neal Mr. Francis

Neale Henry, chemist & druagist, and oil

and hop merchant, & agent to the English

Widovfs' Fund. Nuttall J. W., draper, and Ripley Oakes Thomas, corn miller Pogmore - , colliery agent «

Slater James, earthenware dexler

Inni and Tavern?.

Newlands Inn, Richard Eluor Red Lion, John Briddou

Langton George Smith. Joseph *'Winson Thos.

Cartledge James *Hunt Wm.

*Ehior Richard Evans Luke Gill Herbert

Briddon John Briddon John *Elnor Richard Evans Henry, jun. Evans Joseph Neale Henry Tomlinson Miss

Evans Luke, (& tallow

*Elnor Richard

Briddon John Evans Luke

Askew Geo., (dealer) Bakewell Levi Bryan John Hickton James Holden Samuel

Cartledge Joseph Gill Hannah MHward Griffin Parkin Deborah Tagg James

Greatorex John HoUingworth Geo.

Wm. Booth, to Not- tingham, Wed. & Sat., and Derby ^

Post Office, at Abraham Greaves' ; letters amve from Alfreton at 8.30 a.m., and are

Beresforde John, surgeon, Albert Terrace

Bollington Ann, vict., William IV.

Casson Rev. John, incumbent

Clarke George, pork butcher

Cooke George, butcher

Farnesworth John, grocer, baker, k flour

& british wine dealer Fawcett Mary, infant school

Greaves Abraham, druggist, &; agent to the

North British Insurance Co. Hill Edward S., constable Miller Sybella, National school " Rhodes Benj., bookseller & news agent Smithyman Edward, National school Winson Thomas, shoemaker

Bowne Dorothy Walters James

Brown Thomas Elliott Mary

Harrison Richard Taylor Charles Waplington Nathl.

Hole James Webster JoBeph

Post Office at William Thomley's; letters arrive from Alfreton, at 8.30 a.m., and are

despatched at 8 p.m.

Alsop George, joiner

AUsopp Walter, chemist & druggist

Bryan Mr. John

Cowan James, National school

Elson Henry, saddler &c harness maker

Fletcher Edward, coUieiy agent

Fletcher Wm., gent.

Frctwcll Ellen, infant school

Godbchere Robert, blacksmith

Haden Miss Eliza

Holes James, tailor

Oakes Chas., ironmaster; h. Hollyhurst

Cakes Jas,, ironmaster ; h. Biddings House

Oakes James & Co., iron & coal masters

Oakes Thomas, ironmaster; h. Biddings

Pittar Rev. Arthur Charles, B.A., incumbt.,

Platts George, linen & woollen draper Shaw William, plumber, glazier, gas fitter,

painter <fc paper hanger Stimson Thomas, slater, near Codnor Park Swindell Samuel, locksmith Withers Eliz. Ashley, National seLooI

Inns and Taverns.

Boot & Slipper, lliomas Wagstaff Seven Stars, William Hunt

Kitchen AVm. Lygo Joseph. Mai thy Joseph, New

Inn, and furniture

Beecroft George

Parsons Eichard

Cartledge Joseph Malthy Samuel, («fe

tallow chandler)

Bradley Stephen Holden Peter Langton John Lygo Joseph Parker Frank Read Wm. Taylor Thos.

Brentnall George, (&

Hunt Wm. Scott Rohert

Marked * are at Birchtoood, 1 are at Penny Totvn, and 2 Pye Bridge.

* Adams Rev. Benj., curate of Riddings &

Beecroft Henry, wheelwright Bennett Isaac, nail maker Bradley Alfred, blacksmith

* Clark Wm., clerk at Coates Park ^Colliery Cutler Mrs. Eliz., Somercotes Souse

Gee John, contractor

2 HoUingworth Joseph, currier and leather

2 Horsley Erasmus Thomas, manager

2 Horsley Wm., corn miller

3 Millington Francis, station master

* Langham Thomas, manager Cotes Park Colliery ; h. Birchwood House, Pinxton

Peat Wm. &c Brown Joseph, plumbers, &c. Radford Joseph, bailiff, Cotes Park Colliery Redgate Joseph, builder

Rbate>«Alfce4» builder, contractor, and

Riley John, machinist, & manfr. of stocks,

Storer Mr. Jonathan

*Seely Charles & Co., fire brick, and chim- ney pot makers, and coal masters. New Birchwood & Cote's Park Collieries

Wheeldon John & Emma, Reform school

Wilbraham Henry, chemist

2 Wood Stephen, bookkeeper

Inns and Taverns.

Black Horse, John Hardstaff 2 Dog & Doublet, John Peck Rose & Crown, Ed\^^ard Andrew

Royal Tiger, George Rhodes

Baguley John,

Burgin Thomas

Caslin John

Clark Martha

*f^earnJohn, Birch-

Parks Edward

Robinson Nathaniel

Sterland Samuel

2 Taylor Peter

Clark Samuel Lee Joseph Sterland Samuel Stevens John

Baguley John

1 Banks George *Brown Chas., Birch-

Bramley John Cooper John

2 Cutts James Hardstaff John Herrod John Langton Edward Mai-ple Jas., Outseats Moss Joseph

* Naylor Charles,

2 Rhodes George Richardson Hannah 1 Smedley Joseph 1 A^^ilbraham George 1 Wilbraham Matthew

Dupe John Richardson Hannah Riley John i

Rogers Thomas I

Orme Richard Wass Joseph

Brough John Burgin Thomas Lee Joseph IMorley James Parkes Edward Roe Joseph Robinson Thomas Robinson Nathaniel Slack Rebecca Taylor Elizabeth

Bingham Jeremiah Cordon James, (and agent to the Em- peror Fire Insur- ance Society, The London & Provin- cial Provident So-

ciety, and the National Guardian Assurance Society.

{To Nottingham.)

Eailway Convey-

The Erewash Valley Branch of the Mid- land Baihcay Sta- tion, Pye Bridge. - There are three passenger trains to Mansfield & Not- tingham, each way daily, (Sundays ex- cepted, when there are only two.) - Francis "Millington, station master.

Post Office qX William Blounts'. Lettei^s amvc from Alfreton at 8 a.m., and are

Bootli AVm., framesmith

Bowler George, colliery manager

Bradley Francis, assistant overseer & agont to the Clerical & Medical Life, and to the United Kingdom Life Assurance Co.

Elliott Anthony, framework knitter

Fidlcr John, news agent

Gregory Mrs. Hannah

Needham Wm. Esq., The Grange Potindall John, farm bailiff Walters Joseph, auctioneer & draper Wood Eev. John, Tlic Hall

Inns and Taverns.

Cross Keys, George Pidcock Miner's Arms, Sarah Challoner

Machin Joseph Stevenson Eliz.

Bradley Francis, (&

Cartledge James Hodgkinson Edwaifl Eenshaw Thomas White John Willgoose James

Fumiss John Handbury Thos.

Brick Makers.

Radford John, Sleet

Walters Joseph

Coal Masters.

Haslam Brothers Morewood William

Corn Millers.

Haslam Brothers Taylor Geo. Stanley, Sleet Moor Mill

: Bullock Henry Bullock Mary Cartledge Hannah Dawes Samuel Daykin Kendel England Samuel I Evans Joseph, Old

I Fletcher Thomas I Fletcher Vincent

HaU Fredk., Hill

Haslam Brothers Hunt Joseph Limb George Machin Joseph Pidcock George Swain James Swain John, Hill Top Taylor Thos. Woodward Thomas,

Blount William, (and agent to the English Widows' Fund Life Assurance Co.)

Lomas John, («Sc watch

Fryer Joseph Gee Wm. Heath Thos. Eobinson James Topham Benj. Wildgoose James

Elliott Elizabeth Pidcock Charles Robinson Mary Taylor Edwin, (and boiler maker)

Highfield Thomas Wheat Thomas

ASHOVER is a large scattered parish, which contains the township of Ashover^ in Scarsdale Hundred, and the township and chapelry of JD ethic and Lea, with the hamlet of Holloway, in Wirksworth Hundred, and together have 10,501a. 3ii. 8p.

AsHOVER is a romantic and picturesque village and township, situated in a deep narrow' A^alley, watered by a branch of the small river Amber, which rises in the parish, and crosses its whole extent. On the lofty hills in some places baiTen rocks protrude thi'ough the soil, in others they crest the summit, and houses are scattered amongst the projecting crags and verdant slopes. Few villages are better situated for excellent water. The river Amber liscs in this parish, and bears that name for ten miles. Ashover is 19 miles N.W. by W. from Derby, 7 N.N.W. from Alfreton, 7 miles S.S.W.. from Chesterfield, Stubbin Edge Hall, is a considerable owner and one of the lords of the manor, the rights of which arc divided amongst various persons. John Bright, M.D., Thos. Lee, Robt. Mil ward, John Hopkinson, John B. Gregory, and Thos. Coleman, Esqrs., Rev. Joseph Nodder, the Trustees of the late Sir Henry Hunloke, Exors. of the late Charles Gladwin, and Chesterfield Corporation, besides eoveral others, are also owners. The Church, All

Nodder, M.A., is the patron and incumbent. The chui'ch is a large ancient structiire, in the Gothic style, and is supposed to have been built in 1419. It has a square embattled tower in which are 5 bells, from the centre of which rises a handsome spire, 69 feet fifth are free. It has two monuments inlaid with brasses, and an altar-tomb with recum- bent figures, to the memory of Thos. Babington and Edith his second wife. There are also memorials to the Milnes, Bournes, and Dakeyne families, also a magnificent Gothic obituary window of stained glass, to the Nodder family, placed in the chancel, in 1845. Here is also a very remarkable and ancient font, the base is of stone, the lower part is of an hexagonal form, the basin of the font is cylindrical, and is surrounded by twenty leaden figures, loosely draped, standing in ornamental niches. The Rectory is a pleasant mansion, a little S.E. of the church, near which the rector, in 1846, built a handsome school, of gritstone, for girls, at a cost of £400. The boys' school at Ashover Hill, half a mile N.^V. from the chm-ch, was erected in 1 703 ; the endowment and subscrip- great and small tithes were commuted in 1860, for £540 3s. lid. The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have each a chapel in the township, besides which the Primitive Methodists have one erected the present year (1856) at Alton. This m.an(ir, JEssoure, at the Domesday survey, belonged to Ralph Fitzhubert, under whom it was held by Serlo. The posterity of Serlo were called de Plesley, from Plesley, the place where they resided. Serlo de Plesley, his descendant, who died about the year 1203, left two daughters, co- heiresses, married to Willoughby of Lincolnshire, and Deincourt, who possessed the manor in moieties. The co-heiresses of Deincourt married Reresby, of Lincolnshire, and Musters, of Nottinghamshire. Sir Robert Willoughby exchanged his share of Ashover mth the Reresby family, for their interest in the Plesley estate. The share of Musters family was subdivided between two sons, from one of whom, Gefiiy, a portion of the manor passed to Robert Pierepont.

From this time Ashover appears to have been divided into four manors, known by the names of Newhall, Oldhall, Musters', and Pierepont' s manors. The Newhall manor, with the advowson of the church, was given, in 1302, by Margaret Reresby, widow, to Adam Reresby, her youngest son, and continued to belong to his descendants, who resided at New Hall, afterw^ards Eastwood Hall, till the reign of James I., when Sir Thos. Reresby made it over to trustees, and it was sold, in 1623, to the Rev. Immanuel Bourn, then rector of Ashover, who died in 1/97, and bequeathed the manor and advowson to trustees, for the benefit of his niece Jemima, the wife of Mr. John Nodder, in whose descendant it is now vested. Eastwood and the site of the old manor was sold, in 1762, to the governors of Queen Anne's bounty, to augment the chapel of Brimington, near Ches- terfield. The Oldhall manor was purchased, in 1 737, by Roger de Hynfield, of Edelstow Hall, who also purchased the Muster's manor. Edelstow Hall was considered the hall of this manor, and after several changes became the seat of a branch of the Gladwin family, one of whose co-heiresses brought it to Dr. Bourne, who then resided at the Spital, near Chesterfield. It was sold, in 1808, by the widow of the Rev. John Bourne and her daugh- ters, to Mr. John Milnes, of Ashover. Pierepont' s manor is in many shares. The Butts estate was purchased by James Milnes, of Ashover, in 1696. Marsh Green Hall, a pic- turesque mansion, is the residence of the Rev. Jph. Nodder, M.A., and R.D. The township contains many scattered hamlets and farms, and it is divided for parochial purposes into quarters, but keep their poor conjointly. Ashover Quarter is situated within one mile from the chiu-ch, and contains Appletree Knowl on the N., Butts House W., Eastwood Hall E., Hillside E., Marsh Green NW., Meadow Lane E., and Rattle W. Mill Town Quarter^ contains Mill Town, a small village one mile S., and the quarter extending S. and S.W. from Ashover, and contains the following villages and hamlets : Butterley,

Overton Hall, f mile S.W. The family of Hunt, or Le Hunt, were possessed of considerable property in Overton. In the year 1556, Thos. Hunt (son of Christopher), who had removed to Aston-upon-Trent, sold his estate at Overton to Richard Hodg- kinson, of Northedge Hall. The daughter and heu-ess of "SVm. Hodgkinson married Joseph Banks, Esq., of Revesby Abbey, Lincolnshire. His son Robert, who took the name of Hodgkinson, died in 1 792 ; on his death, this estate devolved to the Right Hon. Sir Jph. Banks, Bart., and Ivnight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and President of the Royal Society, who usually spent a few weeks in the autumn at Overton Hall. It is now the property and occasional residence of John Bright, Esq., M.D., who purchased it in 1829. A younger branch of the Hunts resided also at Overton, till 1596, when Wm. Hunt sold his mansion and estate to Robert Daken, of Chelmorton, by whom it was conveyed, in 1600, to Mr. John Gregory. Wm, Milnes, Esq., of Stubbin Edge Hall, in 1828, purchased part of Overton, The family of Crich had for many gene- rations been resident, and had large possessions in Ashover. The last of the family died in very reduced circumstances, at the great age of 101, in the year 1789, and lies buried in Ashover Church. Till within a few months of his death ' he frequently attended Chesterfield market.

Stubbin Edge Hall, an ancient mansion, l~ miles S.E. from Ashover, formerly belonged to the Crich family, but in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, passed to Richard Daykeyue, who married the widow of William Crich ; he had no issue by this mar- riage, but by his marriage with Catherine Strange, daughter of the Earl of Rothes, he had two sons, John and Arthur; she was the favourite maid of honour to Mary Queen of Scots, and attended her unfortunate mistress to the scaffold; she was largely remembered by her in her will, and was especially recommended to the care of Queen Elizabeth. Jolm, their first son, was bom in 1587. He was disinherited by his father, and his senior representative was the late John Deakin, or Dakeyne, Esq., of Boythorpe House, and from a third son of the said John, the Dakeynes of Darley Hall, are descended. The second son of Arthur Dakeyne, enjoyed the Stubbin Edge Hall estate, until the year 1720, when it passed away by a female to the Hopkinsons, of BonsaU, now extinct; there are memorials in the Ashover Church, to the Dakeynes as early as 1 537, and as late as 1 720. The estate, after passing through several hands, is now the property and seat of Wm. Milnes, Esq., deputy lieutenant. The hall is seated on an eminence, and was modernized and improved in 1821, and now forms a handsome mansion. The farms and houses in the Mill Town Quarter extends from one to 2| miles S. from Ashover. The Upper End Quarter includes the N.W. part of the township, extending from Ij to four miles from Ashover. At Kelstedge, a small hamlet, 1 ~ miles N.W. is the lace-thread manufactory of Mr. William Cartledge, of which Mrs. Cawood is the owner. The Alton Quarter includes the N. and N.E. division.

Alton or Aulton is a village one mile NE., and North Edge l^ mile N.N.E. from Ashover. The hamlets and small villages in the parish present a singular appearance and want of uniformity. The soil is very various ; in the valley near the village ift is very fertile, bearing a rental of from 35s. to 50s. per acre ; on the hills and moorlands the value is from 3s. to 35s. per acre, and some good corn is grown. The limestone got here is well adapted for agricultural purposes, and the beds of gritstone for making grindstones. Here are a few framework knitters in cotton, a lace thread doubling factory, a coUiery and two lead mines. On the declivity of a hill on Ashover common, is a "Rocking Stone," called Robin Hood's mark, which measures about 26 feet in circumference, and from its extraordinary position, evidently appears not only to have been the work of art, but to have been placed with gi-eat ingenuity. About 200 yards to the North of this, is a singularly shfped rock called the Turning Stone, 9 feet in height, and supposed to have been a rock idol. Fairs are held at Ashover, April 25th, Oct, 15th, and Monday before Martinmas day, which is also a hiring statute for seiwants. Feast is on first Sunday in July.

Charities. - Samuel Sleigh, by -will, 1684, on condition that the inhabitants of Ashover should build a free school, gave £4 per annum out of his lands in Washino-ton Hay for the use of such school, 20,?. yearly towards a schoolmaster's wages, and 203. to the poor out of King's Lant. George AVollatt pays the rent charge out of Washington Hay, and the anm^ity of 20s. is paid out of the estate of the late Sir Windsor Hunlokc, The sch"Dolroom was built in 1703, by George Hodgkinson, and in 1728, it was conveyed to five

Anthony Storer, in 1705, gave 5s. yearly to the schoolmaster, out of George Marsh's cottage and croft upon the Hay.

Richard Hodgkinson left 203. yearly for the use of the schoolmaster, the amount is supposed to be paid out of a croft the property of Lady Banks.

the Rev. Francis Gisborne ])roposed to give certain closes for the better endowment of the school, if the inhabitants would add £60 to the above sum. The amount was accordingly raised, and the £100 Avas vested at four per cent, in the hands of William Milnes, Esq.

Rev. Francis Gisborne, by indenture, 1819, granted four closes of land containing the rent thereof to pay all expenses in the reparation of the school, and the residue of the clear rents for the benefit of a schoolmaster, and for providing the children with books. The income arising from the above gifts amounts to £21 9s., out of which the master receives £18 for teaching 20 poor children.

Elizabeth Hodgkinson in 1733, gave £60 to be invested in land, out of the produce thereof eight penny loaves to be given every Sunday, and the residue in bread on Chris- mas day. Good Friday, and Easter Sunday. In 1786, the amount is mentioned as being vested in the Rev. Lawrence Bourne, and £2 2s. is paid by Miss Jemima Nodder, who is in possession of an estate called Marsh Green, which was formerly the property of the Rev. S. Bourne ; £1 from Sleigh's Charity, and 6s. is added to the above siun from the poor rates, making in the whole £3 8s., from which a distribution of bread is made to nine poor widows every Sunday.

John Bunting, in 1666, left 15s, per annum to the poor out of land at Peasenhurst. George Bower, of Gorse Hall, left 10s. yearly, issuing out of Stanesley Fees, to be given to 30 of the poorest housekeepers.

Thomas Calton, in 1705, gave 5s. per annum out of Lang Croft, for a distribution of bread. The agent of Lady Banks distributes £1 5s. in money, and bread to the amount of 10s. in respect of Bower, Calton, and Bunting's charities, being 5s. more than the annual amount.

Hev. Francis Gisbornds charity. - (See Bradley.) The annual sum of £5 10s. received by the incumbent is expended in flannel, and given to the poor.

Those Marked 1 are at Ashover; 2, Mill Town Quarter; 3, Upjjer End Qtiarter ;

and 4, Alton Quarter. Post Office, at Henry Taylor's, letters arrive from Chesterfield, at 9, a.m., and are

1 Bassett John, letter-press printer

2 Bennett George, nail maker 1 Biddle Charles, draper

1 Brown Henry, malster

2 Bright John,'Esq., M.D., Overton Hall Calladine Joseph, auctioneer

2 Carliue Jame?, basket maker

3 Cartledge William, lace thread, manu-

Z Cawood Mrs. Sarah, Amber House

2 Cundy Isaac, cooper, timber merchant, and manufacturer of agricultural implements, and saw mills, Kelstedge

1 Eaton Mrs. Ann

4 Fletcher & Cheetham, coal raasters and

1 Ford Matthew, plumber & glazier

2 Gregory Mrs. Ann

1 Haslam Rania, dress maker 1 Hodgkinson Edmund, gent.

4 Hopkinson Jolin, gent.

1 Jenison T^''illiam, slater i Key Joliii, liorse dealer

2 Limb Samuel, postman 1 Lowe J., schoolmaster

1 Marples Thos., saddler

2 Milnes Wra., Esq., StuUin Edge Hall y odder Miss J., llosc Cottage

Modder Jph., Esq., Marsh Green Hall jSTodder Rev. Joseph, M.A., Marsh Green 2 Robinson Joseph, mole catcher Smith Joseph, nursery & seedsman, Tansley

and Scotland nursery 2 Smith Sarah, nursery, &c. 1 Smith Wm., gardener, 3Iarsh green Taylor Mr. Joseph, 1 Thompson Mr. John B. Thrup Rev. F., cm-ate, Hector y 1 Turner Job, nail maker

1 Twigg John, rope and twine maker 1 Twilton Jane E., National School Wheatcroft Titus, g-ansmith

Inns and Taverns.

1 Black Swan, Joseph Holmes

i Crispin, Wm, White

2 Greyhound, Wm. Jjofts

1 King William, Geo. Bennett

4 Malt Shovel, John Turner

'2 Nelson, Richard BoAver

3 Pig of Lead, Samuel Lindley

1 Red Lion, Edmund Revell

3 Red Lion, George Young

3 Red Lion, Samuel Yanes

3 Three Horse Shoes, Geo. Calladine

3 White Horse, William Sims

1 White Lion, Joseph Gregory

2 WiUiara lY, George Bennett

2 xUlen George, Regu-

1 Marsden Jph.

4 Wilson Thomas

3 Barker John

2 Mather George

3 Yanes Samuel 1 White Henrj^

1 White John, (and engineer & machine

4 Yoimg Thomas

Boot & Shoemkrs.

SBeresford James 3 Beresford Paul

1 Bower Richard

2 Bucklej^ AYilliam 2 Buxton John

2 Gaunt John

1 Greaves Wm. 1 Hole Henry 1 Holmes Joseph 1 Hopkinson John 1 Marriott George

3 Marsden Benjamin

4 Parkin John

1 Askew Jlichael 1 Bennett AYiiliam

1 Cla3-ton Robert 3 Edge John

3 Hall William 3 Marriott Joseph

2 Stanley Thos. 1 Tagg John

1 Towndrow John

2 Tagg John

Corn Millers.

4 Elliott Francis 1 Else Stevenson

1 Goodlad Samuel

3 Robinson James

4 Yoimg Thomas

2 Allen George 2A}len'Rd.,YewTree

3 Adams Jph.

2 Barker Jph

3 Beardow John

4 Beardow Thos.

2 Beastall John 2 Bennett Geo. 2 Birks William 2 Birks John

2 Bollington George, Wash-house

1 Bower Ann

2 Bower Samuel

3 Bown Susan

2 Bradley Jame.s

2 Bradley Job

3 Brailsford James

1 Brailsford John

3 Brougli James 3 Brough Wm.

3 Brown John 2 Buckley Ann

4 Buxton Isaac 2 Butler Samuel Clayton John, Dry-

2 Critchlow Thomas 2 Davis Thomas Drury John, Hill Side

'^ Eaton Josex)h 4 Elliott Francis I Else George 1 Else James 1 Else Thomas

1 Evinson Hannah

2 Fidler Jasper, (and

2 Fox John 2 Fox Luke 2 Fox Matthew

1 Francis Thos.

2 Gai-ton John

2 Gladwin John

3 Glaxlwin Thomas 2Goodall Chas.

2 Goodall Thomas i Gregory John B, j 2 Gregory Mrs. I 3 Hague* Ely ) 2 Hadiield John I 2 HaU Elijah

2 Handbury John

4 Hole George I 3 Hole Sarah

j 3 Hill Joseph ! 4 Hodgkinson George I 3 Hollingworth Jph.

2 Holmes George

3 Holmes George 3 Holmes John

3 Holmes Samuel

Hopkinson Jph. Hopkinson Thomas,

Gorse HaU 3 Lee Joseph 3 Lee John 3 Lee Thomas 3 Lee William 3 Ijindley Samuel 3 Lucllam William 3 Marriott Abraham 3 Marriott David

2 Marriott James

3 Marriott William

3 Marsden Benjamin

4 Marsden Jph

1 Marsden Jph

5 Mather Alice

2 Mather George

Lattercotes & Knott

3Mellor George 4Mellor Samuel 4 Mycroft George

3 Nail Robert

3 Nightingale George

2Nuttall Jph.

4Parkes Jph.

3 Peyser John

3 Pendleton George

2 Rhodes George-

2 Rhodes James,

3 Robinson James 3 Shaw George

2 Smedley Adam

3 Smith Daniel 3 Smith George 3 Smith Thomas 2Smith\irst Mrs.

1 Stanley Joseph

2 Swift George 4 Swift William

2 Tagg William

3 Tomlinson AKce STomlinson George

4 Turner John 3 Turner John

2 Towndrow Joseph,

Moor Grange 2 Towndi'ow Joseph 2 Towndrow Thos.

3 Vernon Benjamin

4 Walker Wm.

2 Walker Wm. 4 Wall Charles

2Wheatcroft Jabez 1 White Henry

1 White Joseph

2 Y/ilmott Charles

3 Wilmott George

2 Wilmott George

3 Wilson Paul

4 Wilson Thomas

4 Wilson ThomaS; Birkin Lane

4 Wragg James 2 Wragg Thomas

2 Woollatt Jonathan

3 Young George

4 Yoimg John 4 Young Thos.

1 Bamford Hannah 1 Bowler Thomas I Taylor Joseph, (and

1 Whcatcroft Samuel 1 Wheatcroft Titus

Joiners & Builders

1 Eevill Edw.

1 Robinson Samuel 3 Smith Matthew

Lime Burners.

2 Allen George

1 Else James

2 Fidler James Lofts Wm., Ockerlcy

1 Brown Mrs. 4 Turner John

1 Bamford Hannah 1 Bowler Eras.

1 Bowler Jph.

3 Holmes Anthony 3 Kirk George Taylor Hy, (Exrs of.)

Marked * are Plstrs.

* 1 Jerrison Joseph and William

2 Smith George

1 Mowbray George

3 Needham Stephen

1 Watts Thos.

2 Wood George

Stone Merchants.

2 Barker John

Tomlinson George &

Hemy, Alleshead 4 Yoimg George

2 Goodall Richard

1 Bunting John

2 Hind Anthony

2 Hind William

3 Marriott James

1 Willows Thos.

2 Mather John 1 Mellor John I Revell Ed.

3 Smith Matthew

Carrier to Chstrfld

George Gregory, Tu.,

DETHIC & LEA form a chapelry, and with Holloioay a joint township in the parish of Ashover, and the hundred of Wirksworth, containing together 1,402a. 3r. 35p. of land, rateable value £3105 3s. Dethic or J)ethivick, is a small hamlet, 3^ miles S.W. from Ashover, and 2| S.E. by E. from Matlock, and consists of four farm houses and a corn mill. Thomas Hallo wes, Esq., of Glapwell, is lord of the manor, principal owner, and patron of the living, a perpetual curacy, value £93, has been augmented with £1000 Queen Anne's bounty, and £400 benefactions. The Rev. Nathan Hubbersty, incumbent. The tithe is paid by a small modus to the rector of Ashover. The Chapel is a small neat stone edifice, with a handsome and lofty spire, and one bell, and is dedicated to St. John. It was founded by Jeffery Dethic and Thomas, prior of Felley monastery, in Nottingham- shire, in 1279, and is stated to have been rebuilt by one of the Babington's in 1530. In the reign of Henry III., Dethic belonged to a family who took their name from this place, the elder branch of whom became extinct by the death of Robert Dethic, whose heiress brought this place to Thomas Babington, elder son of Sir John Babington, and brother to Sir Wm. Babington, who was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench, in 1423. John Babing- ton, son of Thomas, was killed at the battle of Bosworth Field. Anthony Babington, the sizth in descent from Thomas, was a principal actor in the conspiracy formed against the life of Queen Elizabeth, in 1586, being zealously devoted to the Catholic religion ; he had secretly made a voyage to Paris some time before, where he formed an intimacy with Thos. Morgan, a bigoted fugitive from England, and with the Bishop of Glasgow, the Queen of Scots' ambassador at the court of Paris. These parties employed every means to get yoimg Babington to join them in their conspiracy, and having succeeded came to England bent upon the assassination of Elizabeth, and the deliverance of the Queen of Scots. In the prosecution of these views he employed himself in increasing the number of his associates and bceretly drew into the conspiracy many catholic gentlemen discontented with the goyemment, but their desperate projects were soon discovered by the vigilance of Elizabeth's

council, and they obtaining intelligence of it, disguised themselves and fled, and concealed themselves in -woods or barns, but were soon discovered and thrown into prison. They were afterwards tried, condemned, and executed in September, 1586 ; John Balliard, a priest of the English seminary at Rheines, and the instigator of the rebellion in England, suffered first, and Babington undauntedly beheld his execution, whilst the rest turned away their faces and fell on their knees. He ingenously confessed his offence, and being taken from the gallows, and about to be cut up, he cried aloud several times, j?«rce me doynine Jesu, " Have mercy upon me. Lord Jesus." He is said to have made over his estate at Dethick, previously to his attainder, to a yoimger brother. It was afterwards sold to "Wendesley Blackwall Esq., and having been divided into severalties, the whole became eventually the property of Samuel Hallowes, Esq., from whom it passed to the present proprietor. The old mansion, which was of considerable extent, has been much altered, and is now occupied as a farm house.

Lea, or Dethic Lea, is a populous village, 16 miles S. from Dethic, and 2| from Cromford station. "W. E. Nightingale, Esq., T. Hallowes, Esq., Mr. Wm. Walker, and Mr. Saml. Sims, are the principal owners, the former is lord of the manor. Mrs. Ann Wasg has extensive lead works here, where about thirty tons of lead are produced weekly. John Smedley, Esq., of Lea Mills, has also an extensive establishment for merino spinning and the manufacturing of hosiery, and here is also a considerable hat manufactor}'- worked by Mr. TVm. Walker. Lea Hall is now divided into two dwellings. The Wesleyan Reformers chapel, situate betwixt Lea and Hollo way, was erected by John Smedley, Esq., in 1853, and is a handsome stone building with turret and one bell. It is capable of seatmg 350 persons, and has a burial ground attached. It is also licensed for marriages, Mr. Smedlev, (or some one appointed by him,) officiating in both cases free of charge. In connection is a day school for boys and girls which is supported by Mr. Smedley, about 60 attend. The Wesleyan chapel is a beautiful structure, erected by the late Joseph Wass, Esq., at a cost of £1000. In 1856 it undei*went considerable improvements at the sole expense of Mrs. Ann Wass. The Unitarians have also a small chapel here. Lea School, built by subscription in 1808, is supported by WiUiam Edward Nightingale, Esq., except a small charge of 2d. per week from each of the children. This manor, in the reign of King John, belonged to Robert de Alveley, who left two daughters, co-heiresses ; one moiety passed with the elder daughter to Ferrers, of Lockesley, in Staffordshire, and was sold by her son to Geffrey Dethick ; it afterwards descended to the Babingtons, and has long been in severalties. The other moiety was sold by a descendant of De la Lea, who married Alveley's youngest daughter, of the Frechevilles, of whom it was purchased in the fourteenth century by the Rollestons. Francis Rolleston, Esq., of the Lea, and his son, were convicted in 1571, for conspiring to set at liberty Mary Queen of Scots, then in the custody of the Earl of Shrewsbury. This manor having passed in marriage to the Pershalls, was sold in 1648 by Sir John Pershall, Bart., to Hodgkinson and Cowley, who conveyed it to Spateman. In 1707, it was purchased of the last mentioned family by the late Peter Nightingale, Esq., and is now under his will the property of William Edward Nightingale, Esq., whose seat is Lea Hurst, a handsome mansion in the Gothic style of architecture. There was formerly a domestic chapel at Lea HaU, founded in the reign of King John, and a chantiy was founded in the chapel in the reign of Henry IV., by Roger de Wingerworth. By an in- scription on the side of a gothic window, it appears to have been rebuilt in 1478, but there are no remains left of it now.

Dethic Chapeluy. - Francis Allyn, by will, 1663, gave the yearly sum of 40s. out of his messuage in Lea, tovv^ards maintaining a minister at Dethic chapel ; he also gave to the poor of Lea, Over-howay and Nether-howay, a sum of 10s. yearly.

HoLLOWAY is a small scattered village and hamlet, standing on a bold acclivity, partly situated in the parish of Crich, and forming the S.E. extremity of the township, 3 miles

S.E. from Matlock, and 1|' miles N.W. from Whatstaudwell Bridge Station. W. E. Night- ingcile, Esq., is lord of tlie manor and principal owner. The Primitive Methodists liave a small chapel here erected in 18o4, it is a neat stone building in the old English style of architecture, and will seat about 120 hearers. xVneat house, the residence of Mrs. Sinedley,

Marked 1 reside at Dethic, 2 Lea, and 3 Holloicay.

Post Office at Mr. Luke Stones', Lea Bridge. Letters arrive from Matlock Bath at

Post Offi,ce at Alice Else's Hollotoay. Letters arrive from Matlock Bath at 9 80 a.m.,

2 Brocklehurst Wm., slater

2 Buxton Samuel, joiner

3 Clayton Joseph, sen., wheelwright 3 Dixon Miss Frances, The Poplars 3 Else Mr. John

2 Farmer John, tailor

3 Higdon John, assistant overseer

3 Hill Edward, lace manufr.. Cottage 2 Marsden George, clerk. Lea Bridge Nightingale, Wm. Edward, Esq., Lea Hurst

2 Orme Mr. Edwin, missionary

3 Radford John, blacksmith 3 Radford Sarah, milliner

3 Sims Alexander, wood leader 3 Sims Samuel, stone merchant

2 Smedley John, merino spinner & hosiery

manufacturer, Lea Bridge

2 Wass Ann, lead smelter ; h. Green 2Wathey Mr. John, Lea Hall 2Wildgoose Robt., clerk. Lea Bridge 2 Wildgoose John, wood steward

Inns and TaveTns.

2 Jug & Glass, Joseph Radford

Three Horse Shoes, Paul Radford (and

3 Yew Tree, Joseph Clayton

3 Buxton George 3 Y'oung Sarah

2 Platts Richard 2 Stoppard Thos.

Corn Millers.

1 Else Charles

2 White Robert

3 Amat Thomas

2 Bradley James

3 Critchlow Thos.

1 Dickenson George

1 Else Charles

2 Flint George

1 Hole John

2 Lowe John

2 Platts Richard

2 Stoppard Thos. 2 Taylor Timothy, (& cattle dealer)

2 White Robert

3 Brownson Thomas 2 Bunting Wm.

2 Littlewood George

3 Boden Anthony 3 Buxton George 3 Else Alice

2 Flint Samuel

3 Radford John 3 Smith George

2 GoodaU John

3 Limb Charles 3 Peach George

Crichley, to Chester- field, Sat.

AULT, or HAULT HUCKNALL parish includes Ault Hucknall, with the manor of Hardwick, the hamlets and villages of Astwith, Harstoft, the manor and village of Row- thorne, the manor and village of Stainsby, which keep their poor conjointly, and contain wore males aud 315 females ; rateable value £3262 8s. 3d. The Duke of Devonshire is lord of the manor, and owns nearlj^ all the parish, but here are a few small freeholders. The soil is principally a good strong clay with a portion of limestone and hazle soil.

Ault Hucknall is a small scattered village, situate a little S. of the Chesterfield aud r^Iansfield road, 7 miles S.E. by S. from the former and 3^ miles S.W. from the latter. The Church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist^ situate at the north-east extremity of the

village, is an ancieftt edifice witli low tower, the interior being neatly fitted up. In 1828 it was repcwed at a cost of £334, towards which the Duke of Devonshire subscribed £1 00 and the late vicar £5, the remainder being raised by a rate. It again underwent considerable repairs in 1850, when the interior was neatly painted and varnished, the cost being defrayed by subscription. In the chancel is a handsome moiijiment, with a Latin inscription, to the memory of Anne, first Countess of Devonshire ; she was the daughter and coheiress of Henry Kighley, Esq., and died in 1598 ; she had three sons, Gilbert, William, and James, and the same number of daughters, Mary, Elizabeth, and Francis ; James, the yoimgest son, lies buried near his mother. "William, Earl of Devonshire and Baron Hardwick, and sole survivor of his mother, desirous of preserving the memory of his brothers and sisters, has caused this monument to be erected, dated 1627. Near the above is a plain stone, with a Latin inscription, to the memory of Thos. Ilobbes of Malmsbury, the celebrated philosopher and free-thinker, who died at Hardwick, on the 4th December, 1679, in the 92nd year of his age. This well known writer had been tutor to the second and third Earls of Devonshire, and continued to reside in this family till his death. Among his numerous publications was a Latin descriptive poem on the wonders of the Peak, De Merahilibus Pecci. A few weeks before his death, the Earl of Devonshire removing with his family from Chatsworth to Hardwick, he insisted on being removed also, and in so doing it was necessary to carry him on a feather bed. The living is a vicarage, valued and £800 parliamontaiy grant. The Duke of Devonshire is patron and impropriator, the Eev. G. II. Arkwright, incumbent, and the Eev. Thos. Stevens, curate. The Church was appropriated to the priory of Beauchief. In 1544, the impropriate rectory was granted to Francis Leake, Esq., but has long been possessed by the present noble family. Here are about 23 acres of glebe land.

The manor of Hnrdwick forms the south side of the parish, and is on the border of Nottinghamshire, from which it is separated by the river Meden or Mayden, which rises at Skegby. On the south, the Erewash has its source near this point in the parish of Kirby- in-Ashfield, here forming a deep indentation on the Derbyshire border. The former stream flowing through a deep romantic glen, bounds the county for some distance to the north ; the latter, running south, bounds the county till it falls into the Trent, near Long Eaton. The manor of Hardwick was granted by King John, in 1203, to Andrew de Beauchamp In the year 1288, Wm. de Stenesby held it of John le Savage, by the annual render of three pounds of cinnanioi), and one of pepper. John Stenesby, his grandson, was seized of it in 1330. The Hardwicks afterwards possessed it for six generations. Elizabeth, third daughter, and (after her brother's death) coheiress of John Hardwick, Esq., brought this to her second husband. Sir William Cavendish, from wliom it has descended to its present noble possessor. When the hall of the Hardwicks was erected is uncertain, but Jo]m Hardwick died here in the nineteenth year of the reign of Henry YIII, and it is said that Cardinal Wolsey lodged one night in the house, on his way from York to Leicester Abbey, where he died, November, 153C. The present house was built in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, by the countess of Shrewsbury. She had been married twice before she became the wife of the Earl of Shrewsbury, namely to Robert Barley, Esq., and Sir William

The situation of Hardtoick Hall is exceedingly picturesque and beautiful. It stands in a fine park, richly wooded with venerable oaks of the most gigantic proportions. A high ridge commands some extensive and interesting views to the west. The hall, a noble mansion, exhibits a complete .specimen of the style of architecture which prevailed during the reign of Queen Elizabeth ; it has undergone no alteration since its erection, and appears to have been finished about the year 1597. It is built of stone, and round the top is a parapet of open work, in which the Countess's initials E. S. frequently occui'. At each ostremity is a lofty tower. The state apartments are spacious and lofty, with numerous windows, admitting a profusion of light. The hall is hung with tapestry of

exquisite Tvorkmanship, and has long been celebrated for its antique furniture. In the chapel, which is on the first floor, is a verj^ rich and curious altar cloth, 30 feet long, hung round the rails of the altar, with figures of saints under canopies wrought in needlework. The great dining-room is on the same floor, over the chimney piece of which is the date of 1597. The most remarkable apartment^in this interesting edifice, are the state room or at one end of it is a canopy of state, and in another part a bed, the hangings of which are Yery ancient. This room is hung with tapestry, on which is represented the story of Ulysses ; over this are figures rudelj^ executed in plaster, in has relief, among which is a representation of Diana and her nymphs. The gallery is about 170 feet long and 26 wide, extending the whole length of the eastern side of the house, and hung with tapestry, on a part of which is a date of 1478. It is probable that this as well as many other articles of the furniture of this mansion was removed from the old Hall at Hardwick, or from Chats- worth, when that splendid mansion was rebuilt. Among other interesting portraits at Hardwick, are those of Queen Elizabeth, Lady Jane Grey, Sir Thomas More, Cardinal Pole, Bishop Gardener, the Countess of Shrewsbury'-, Sir William Cavendish, the first Earl of Devonshire, Colonel Charles Cavendish, and Thomas Hobbes. There are also many good paintings in various parts of the house. The delapidated shell of the ancient hall, which remains near the mansion, appears to have been a very magnificent edifice, and from the style of its architecture could not have been built any great length of time before the erection of the present mansion. It is now in a ruinous state ; but one of the It is floored with terras, and the sides are fitted up to a considerable height with oak wainscoting, ornamented with Ionic pilasters, over which are ornaments in plaster, Con- sisting of two rows of arches. Over the large stone chimney piece are colossal figures, one on each side, in Roman armour, reaching to the cornice ; from which this room has obtained the appellation of " The Giant's Chamber." The present hall has acquired an interest from the supposition that it was one of the prisons of Mary Queen of Scots, but it was built after the death of that unfortunate princess. The second floor of this mansion is said to have been allotted for the residence of the royal prisoner, and the rooms are shown as retaining their furniture in the same state as when she inhabited them. Over the door of a bed room said to have been appropriated to her use, are the arms of the Queen of Scots, with her cypher. There is a portrait of Queen Mary in one of the apartments, said to have been painted in the tenth year of her captivity. A bed, a set of chairs, and a suit of hangings, are shown as having been the work of the royal captive ; it is very probable that they were ; she was very fond of needle-work, and employed many hours of the day during her captivity in that occupation. The furniture was probably used by her, and brought from Chats worth before the old hall of that place was taken down. It is certain, if the unfortimate Mary ever was at Hardwick, it was only during a short and occasional visit of the Earl of Shrewsbuiy to that place. The Countess being at Hardwick in 1577, several years before the present hall was built, wrote to the Earl, intimating her wish that he would come to Hardwick, if the Queen would give him permis- sion. In the postcript she says, " Lette me here how you, your charge, and love doth, and commend me, I pray you. Yt were well, you sente fore or fyve pieces of the great hangings, that they might be put oup, and some carpets ; I wyshe you wollde have thynges yn that redynes that you myght come w^ in 3 or fore dayes after you here from courte." The carriage road to the hall from the Chesterfield aud Mansfield road, is about a quarter of a mile east from the village of Heath. Near the hall is a seliool, built by the second Duke of Devonshire, in 17'24, where about 20 children attend. (See Charities.)

AsTwiTH, is a hamlet and small village, two miles S.W. from the paiish Chiwch.

Harstoft, a hamlet and small village, on the Chesterfield and Tibsholf road, 2| miles S.W. from the Church. The river Dawley rises a little S.E of this village, and runs directly north to the Rother, on the north of Staveley. The Wesleyan Methodists have a

small chapel here, built in 1835 ; it is a plain stone building, and is also used as a Sunday

EowTHORNE^ a small village one mile E. from the Church, and 7| S.E, from Ches- terfield. The manor of Rugetorn, at Domesday survey, was the property of Eoger do Busli. It afterwards belonged to the family of Tilly, whose heiress married Savage. Robt. de Lexington, to whom it had been conveyed by the last mentioned family, gave it to the abbot and convent of Newstead, in Xottinghamshire, In the year 1563, this manor was vested in the coheiress of Roger Greenhalgh. In 1583, Lord Chancellor Bromley, acting it is supposed as trustee, conveyed it to Sir Wm. Cavendish, ancestor of the present noble owner. The last four deaths in this village up to the first of June, 1856, are as follows : four making a total of 352 years.

Stainsby, a small village 1 mile W. from the church, and 6 miles S.S.E. from Chesterfield. The manor of Stanesby was held at Domesday survey by Roger de Poiton. In the reign of King John it was in the family of Savage, and in the year 1235, William, son of Walkelin de Savage, held it by the annual render of a sore hawk (a hawk of the first year). In 1580 or 1581, John Savage conveyed this manor to Lord Chancellor Bromley, by whom it is probable it was again conveyed, about the same time as Row- thorne, to Sir "William Cavendish. A feast is held first Simday in July.

Charities. - Ilardwick School. - Thomas Whitehead, in 1720, gave his dwelling at Moor Heigh, with 20a. of land, then valued at £8 per annum, on trust, and directed 10s. a year to be expended in books, and the remainder to be given to the school- master. The property consists of a good farm house, and 21a. Ir. 9p. of land, let for £23 15s 2d. per annum, the whole of which is paid to the schoolmaster. The master also receives £2 lOs, from PhiUips' charity, and an annual gratuity from the Duke of Devonshire. In respect of these sums, all the poor children of the parish are instructed on payment of two-pence per week. The school is kept in a house rented by the Duke of Devonshire, which has lately been adapted for the residence of the master, out of the funds of the charity founded by the Countess and Earl of Devonshire. (See

William Derry, 1794, directed his personal property to be converted into money are distributed to the poor.

Bev. Francis Gishorne's Charity. - (See Bradley.) The annual sum of £5 10s. received by the vicar, is laid out in warm clothing, and distributed among the poor.

Marked 1 are at Astiolth, 2 JTardivick, 3 Ilarstoft, 4 Hoiothorne, and 5 Stainsby.

4 Bramlcy George, wheelwright

5 Broadhcad Edward, joiner Brown Jonth., stone m.ason

3 Cope Joseph, engineer and machinist

2 Cottingham John Grcgoiy, agent, and

Che-Htcrfidd Davenport John, framework knitter 2 Fisher EpLraini, farm bailiff 5 Fretwcll Wm., sen., stone mason 2 Hallam Henry, schoolmaster 5 Ilaynes AVm , woodman 2 Hibbert George, gamekeeper 2 Holmes_George, gardener

5 Hutchinson Joseph, stone mason 4 Pearson George, farm bailifi' Piclcard William, foreman brickmakcr

4 Stevens Rev. Thomas, curate Swallow Thomas, butcher

5 Thornally Joshua, colliery owner, Ilolmwood Colliery

Id US and Ttiverrs.

2 Haxdwick Irm, Joseph Overton Should-r of Miitton, Mary Clay

1 Alvey John

1 Bacon John

5 Bacon Joseph

4 Bramley Elizabeth,

(cQ-v^'keeper) Brook Humphrey 1 Brough George Brown Sarah 1 Brunt William 1 Cartwright Eobt. Clay James Clay Maiy Clay Sampson Davenport Sarah

3 Davenport Wm. 1 Fisher Ephraim

4 Fisher William

Fox Joseph 5 Fretwell Septimus 5 Fretwell AVilliam 5 Goodwin Chas, Jno.

1 Gregory Joseph 5 Gregory Thomas

2 Hodgkinson | John,

& deaths for Pleasley

4 Hodgkinson Joseph

1 Hollingworth Mtha.

1 Jepson John, Holm-

1 Johnson John

4 Johnson Richard 4 King Thomas Limb Samuel

1 Marriott Frederick 4 Metcalf Joseph Oldfield Lydia

2 Overton Joseph

4 Rowley John J.

1 Saunders Thos., sen.

corn miller)

Swallow Elizabeth 5 Swift John Taylor Edw., ffagg 5 Thomally Joshua 1 Turner Thomas,

Bramley Lane 1 Wass^John

Wilson William

1 Bowler George Fox Joseph 5 Goodwin Henry 5 Goodwin Thomas 5 Hardwick Thomas

1 Heath Thomas 8 Pemberton Thos.

4 Bower William 1 Heath Thomas 3 Pemberton Thos.

BARLBOROUGH, is a considerable village and parish, 8 miles N.E. from Chesterfield, 10 miles S.E. from Sheffield, and 2 miles E, from Eckington station; contains 3,268 acres principal owners and joint lords of the manor, which is freehold. Here are also several small freeholders. The northern part of the parish is divided from Yorkshire by a small rivulet, that runs into Pebley Ponds, which covers an area of 52 acres, mostly in this county. The turnpike roads from Chesterfield to Worksop, and from Sheffield to Mans- field, cross here at right angles. The Church, St. James', which stands on an eminence in the centre of the village is a large ancient edifice, with nave, chancel, north aisle, square embattled tower and five bells. The Uving is a rectory, valued in the King's book at Rev. Martin Stapylton, M.A., who resides at the Rectory, a^ large handsome modem mansion, opposite the chvirch. The tithes are paid by a rent charge. Here are 73a. 2ja. of globe land. In 1795, an act was obtained for enclosing the commons, and the award was made in 1798. The land has a bold undulating surface, with a variety of soils, and wheat and oats are extensively grown. There are several extensive collieries and ironstone mines in the vicinity, and lime burning is carried on to a considerable extent. Mr- Charles Brown, has extensive saw mills here for the mamifacture of wood hoops, edge- tool handles, spade, shovel, tool, fork, and other shafts. Axe, adze, &c., and all other kinds of plain or fancy handles, ornamental turning, &c. T\ie Mechanics' Library, (at Thos. Lenthall's), established in 1856, by Mr. Charles Brown, contains about 300 volumes of carefully selected books . in various branches of literature, which afford the means for social, intellectual, and moral elevation. It is open to all classes, the subscriptions being 4s. per annum, a reading room is about being added, which will be supplied with both daily, weekly, and monthly papers, periodicals, &c. The late Mr. George Boaler left by will, the sum of £50 towards the erection of a Weslej'^an Chapel here, but it has not yet been applied for that purpose. There are two schools in the village, both of which are well attended. The village is about to be lighted with gas. Here is an Hospital for six poor persons, founded by Margaret and Mary Pole, in 1 752, and endowed with an estate now producing £72 per annum. - (See Chanties.) Feast, first Sunday in July.

Barlborough Hall, 1 mile N. of the village, and near the verge of the county, is a spacious Elizabethan structure, with a semi-octagonal projection at each earner and in the centre, wTiich be:n|^ earned to a considerable height, gr^'-es it an imposing appearance. A

beautiful avenue of lofty limes stands in front of tlie hall, and the noble trees, pro- fusely scattered in tlia adjoining grounds, add greatly to the picturesque beauties of the surrounding scenery. It is the scat and propert}" of AYilliam Platfield de Eodcs, Esq. The family of Rrdes is of great antiquity and has flourished upwanis of GOO years in. the counties of Lincoln, Nottingham, York, and Derby. They are lineally descended from Gcj-ard de Rodes, a baron who lived in the reigns of Kings Henry II., Richard I., John* and Henry III., and received great favoui's from each of them, and by King John Vv'as sent an ambassador into foreign parts. Balbro' Hall was erected, and became the flimily seat, :^rom the time of Sir John Rodes, son of Judge Rodes. Sir Francis, his son, who was the iirteentli gv^neration from the above Gerard do Rodes, v^as, on the 9th of August, 1641, knighted, and five days afterwards was created a baronet. Sir Francis Rodes, the secord baronet married the daughter of Gervasc Clifton, of Clifton, in the county of Nottingham, and died in the year 1651. Sir Francis Rodes, his son, married the dauglitcr of William Thornton, of Grantham ; he was succeeded by Sir John Rodes, his son, at whose decease in 1743, the title became extinct; his sister, Frances, married Gilbert Heathcote, M.D., whose grandson inlierited this estate, and took the name of Rodes, and died in 1768, when his nephew, Cornelius Heathcote, Esq., who took the name of Rodes in 1776, succeeded to the estate, at whose demise, the estate again passed to a nephew, the late Rev. Corneliua Heathcote Reaston, who took the name of Rodes, from whom it again passed to a nephev\'-, William Hatfield Gossip, who has taken tlie name of De Rodes, and attained his majority

Fark Hall, is an ancient mansion 2 miles N.N.W. of the village, the residence of Mrs. Middleton. Knitacrc Hill,, a farm, 1 mile N.E. l^eUcy Inn, 1^ miles N., a noted Inn, on the ancient Sheffield and London road, near which is Pebley dam. Whltebrick Moor, 1 mile E.N.E., consists of a few scattered farms..

The manor of Barlcburgh was given to Burton Abbey by "Wulfric Spott ; at the Domesday survey it was included in the same manor as Wliitwell, and there were a priest, a church, and one servant ; it belonged to Ralph Fitzhubert, under whom it was held by Robert, most probably ancestor of Robert de Meinell, one of whose coheiresses brought Barlborough to Sir Matthew de Hathersage ; the coheiresses of Hathersago brought it in moieties to Goushill and Longford about the latter end of the reign of Henry III., and was held by those families for several generations. Anthony Wingfield, wlio had married a coheiress of Sir Robert Goushill, suffered a recovery in 1513. Thomas, Earl of Derby died seized of a manor in Barlborough, which appears to have been this moiety, in 1521, and was held by Edward Stanley, Lord Monteagle, his uncle, in- 15-23. Sir Y/illiam Holies,' some time Lord Mayor of London, died seized of a manor, which seems to have been this moiety. Queen Mary, in 1554, granted to Dame Ann Stanho]}o the manor of Barlborough, which had belonged to the Earl of Derby ; Sir Thomas Stanhope sold this manor in 1571, to Sir Richard Pype, who died seized of it, with the advowson of the rectory, in 1587. Francis Rodes, Esq., one of the Justices of the Common Pleas, in 1585, purchased of the family of Selioke an estate, described as the manor of Bajibprough, which. had belonged to the Constables. Sir John Rodes, son of the judge, had a Chancery suit with Ilnniphrey Pype, Esq., son of Sir Richard, who claimed to be lord of the manor, and asserted the estate of the Seliokes was freehold, but not manorial, and it is probable they afterwards purchased Pype's moiety. The other moiety passed with a coheiress of Nicholas Longford, Esq., who died in 1610, to a younger son of the Poles of Wakebridgf , Park Hall, in Barlborough, which continued to be the property and seat of this branch of the Pole family till the death of the last survivor of two maiden ladies, in 1755. It then passed by will to a younger son of the Radborne family, and has since devolved to tho elder branch. A survey, of the year 1630, describes three parks in Barlborough, contain- ing about 400 acres.

Charities. - Godfrey Godley^ who died in 16*29, left £30, tho interest to be given to

Christopher Slater, who died in March, 1G49, left £1, to "be paid 3'early on St. Thomas's day. In respect of this charity, 5s. is paid by Mr. Bodes, and 6s. 8d. from another estate.

William Coolie, who died in 16-iO, left £20, the interest to bo given to the poor. There are also various other benefactors, mentioned on a tablet in the church, of which the whole amount is £102, which appears to have been vested in two dwellings, and the Poor's Hollingworth Common, and set to the overseers of the poor, for the above premises ; also an allotment was made to the overseers, in lieu of all their interest in the lands, of 3a. 5p. This land is now let for £10 per annum, and given in sums varying from Is. to 7s.

George Sloter, in 1 640, left £1 per annum. The owner of an estate here pays the above sum, which is distributed amongst eight poor widows.

Margaret and Ilary Pole's Hospital. - By indenture, dated 11th October, 1752, the said ladies conveyed to Francis Bower and six others, a messuage and a piece of ground, to be for ever used as an hospital for six poor persons, with various other tenements and lands, amounting to 46 acres, on trust. Out of the estate at Froggatt to pay to each inmate, weekly, the sum of 2s., and provide for each two stack loads of coals, and out of the residue keep the hospital in repair. The Hospital, situate in the village of Barlborough, consists of six dwellings of two rooms each, and a small garden to each. The property Froggatt estate, made under the Baslow inclosure act, in 1 824, let for some time rent free on condition of the tenant fencing it, but it will make a valuable addition to the charity. The alms people now receive 33. 6d. a week, and twice in the ja^ar a load of coals. Mr. Bodes, in respect of a sum of £25, either given or left by will, by Mr. Ileathcotc, his half brother, pays 25s. annually to the alms people.

Bev. Francis Gishorne's charities. - (See Bradley.) The annual sum of £5 10s., is received by the vicar, and laid out in coarse woollen cloth and flannel, which he distributes to the poor about Christmas.

Woodthorpe Hospital. - Poor persons of this parish are eligible to this hospital as well as those of Staveley.

Post Offi,ce, at James Brown's ; letters arrive by gig mail from Chesterfield at 8 a.m., and are despatched at 5.45 p.m.

De Bodes Wm. Hatfield, Esq., The Hall

Alderson Miss Mary

Arthur Bobert, saddler

Barber ?iiles, contractor and builder, fire brick and tile maker, and colliery owner

BowJon Mrs. Mary, Bcighton Fields

Bradley John, agent to Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Insurance Co.

'Bradley Wm., linen & woollen draper

Brown Charles & Co., timber, and general merchants, and manufacturers of wood hoops, edge tool handles, spade, shovel, tool and fork shafts, liarlbro' Sato

Chester Mrs. Mary, Ash Cottage

Froggatt John, gardener, The Hall

Goodwin Jph., painter, plumber & glazier

Menneil John, gardener Middleton Mrs. - , Park Hall Smith Ellis, engineer, and Anu, dressmaker Stapylton Bev. Martin, M.A., Rectory

Inns and Taverns.

Apollo, George Hallet Pattinson Clock Wheel, William Whitworth Dusty ]\Iiller, George Walker Pebley Imi, Ann Boberts Bodes Arms, John Goslinj'; TlSosTaSTtrown, George Hodgkinsan

De Hodes's, "William

Endoiued^ Jno. Parker

England Insurance Goodwin Ann

Camm William Haigh Hannah

Godfrey Christopher Whitworth William

Brick & Tile Mkrs.

Barber Miles, ( fire

Gosling John Woodhead Samuel

Arthur John Hibbard George Hibbard Thomas Hodgkinson Samuel

Coal Masters.

Appleby Fras. & Co., Cottam Colliery

Barber Miles

Gosling John

Wells Eich. Geo. and Jph., P«r7£ Colliery

An cliff Septimus, Knitnere Hill

Arthur John

Barber Miles

Boaler Bobert

Brown James

Camm William

Carr Benjamin

Clark John

Dawes Gervase, Pebley Grove

Eccles Eichard, Hol-

Ellis Henry

Goacher John, Thros- tle J J all

Gosling John

Gould James

Haynes Thomas Heane HaiTison Hibbard George Hibbard Stephen Hibbard Thomas Hodgkinson George Hodgkinson Samuel Kay Godfrey Mallind:r Luke Morley Joseph, Parli

Pattinson George H. Eoberts Ann, JPebley

Rudiforth John. Shaw Eobert Taylor William Vickers Chas. Gibson Vickers William Walker George Widdowson John,

Willoughby John Wilson George, Field

Barber Miles

Bark William Goodwin Joseph Lenthall Thomas Stevenson. William Story Eebecca Turner George Turner Samuel

Cumming William Hibbard Stepiien

Lime Burners.

Barber Miles Gosling John Hodgkinson George

Barber Henry, Spink

Clark William Oxley George Turner William

Bark William Milner John Unwin-SaiHuel

BARLOW (GEEAT) is a large village and parish, situated on a bold eminence, and commanding a most extensive view of the finely cultivated country, 4 miles N. W. by W. from Chesterfield, and 10 miles S. from Sheffield. It includes part of the township of Little Barlow, in Dronfield parish. The parish forms a romantic district of lofty hills and deep ravines, having some extensive and thriving plantations ; the soil is of an indifi'erent houses, and G36 inhabitants, of whom 342 v/cre males, and 294 females ; rateable value £2511 Is. The Duke of Eutland is lord of the manor and principal owner, here are also several small freeholders. The Church, a perpetual curacy, valued in the King's book at Anne's bount)'-, and £1,300 parliamentary grant. The rector of Staveley is the patron, it having been formerly considered a chapelry in that parish, from which it is separated by the intervention of the parish of Whittington. The Eev. George Shipton, is the incumbent. The Church, situated on an eminence on the S.E. side of the parish, is a small ancient edifice, with a square V/^ooden turret, mantled v.dth ivy, a little west of which is the parsonage, a good substantial stone building, situated within the township of Little Barlow, besides which, several other houses are similarly situated. In the church are monuments and other memorials to the Barlow family, but they are much defaced ; one represents a Knight in armour, and is the tomb of Eobert Barlow, who died in 1467. The manor of Barlow was held, with Staveley, by the Musards ; it was afterwards in the ancient family of Abitot, a branch of which, on settling here, is supposed to have taken their name from the place. The family of Barlow, or Barley, possessed it for several generations. James Barley, Esq., sold it in 1593, to George Earl of Shrewsbury; the Earl of Newcastle purchased it of the Shrewsbury family in the reign of James or Charles I. ; having passed by descent to his Grace the Duke of Portland, it was in 1813, exchanged with the Duke of Eutland for the manor of Whitwell. Feast, second Sunday in August.

Hole Hill, f mile south of the village, contains a few cottages and a boarding and day sciioal erectied in 1677, and eituated an a commanding eminence having a beautiful proepeot

of the CGuntry f.ronnc''. In ITSl a good substantial stone house for the master -was erected by th'j Duko of llutknd for the accommodatic*. of boarders, which Ijas since been enlarged at the sole expense of the present mader, Mr. Edward Straw, who Lns occupied it :or the last 36 3/cars ; the average attendance of boarding aiid day schohirs is 55. In connection with the school is a librarj'-, established in 1831), which contains about 600 volumes. Mr. Edward Sfcrav/, is librarian. It r/as at Bole Hiil that Montgomery wrote his poem " Bole Hill Trees." Barlow Woodscntc liall, 2 miles 'N.^Y. from the church, is an ancient and commodious farm re.-idence, the property of Cliarlos Thorold, Esq., and occupied bv Mr. Robert Bradbury. The parish contains many other scattered hamlets and farms which aro given in the directory.

Cii.vuiTiE]. - Uohart Moiocr^ in 17/5, gave a yearly sum of 20s., which is distri- buted about Christmas. The poor have also the interest of £.6 given by John Mellor

Tlie interest of £-50 given by Thomas StejjJisnsGn, in 1743, is distributed on St. Thomas's day amongst poor housekeepers.

Snsnnnah St«q)henson, in 175-2, left 40s. yearly for the instruction of five poor boj's. By indenture, 1781, a close in Newboldwas conveyed to trustees for the school and thepoor, supposed to be in satisfaction of the above donation. The land, about 3 acres, is let for £6 per annum, £2 Hs. of which is paid to a schoolmaster, and the residue is given to the poor. A school was erected many years ago, and in 1817, a. house for the residence of the master "was built by subscription.

John QrasJiaiu, in 1816, left the interest of £20 to be distributed to the poor.

The poor also have bread to the amount of 10s. per annum from the bequest of John

Hev. Francis Gishorne's Charity. - (See Bradley.) - The annual sum of £5 10s. received by the incumbent, is laid out in warm clothing, and distributed to the poor about

Marlied 1 are at Little Barlow., 2, Barlow Grange, 3 Grange Wood,- 4 Joney Gate^ 5 Moorhall, 6 Newgate, 7 Oxstone Itake, 8 Rumbling St., and 9 Willdey Green, Po.<it Office at 0^ren Featherstoae's. Letters arrive from Chesterfield at 9 a.m., and

Cowley Denis, gent., Newgate

Haiguc George, wood turner

Harlow Joseph, engineer, V/oodseats Hall

Hollely Mr. John, Lees

8 Lings Levi, timber valuer

8 Lings Thomas, timber valuer

Mart AYm., vict.. Peacock

Owen John, miller, maltster, & coal owner

Crow Hall Millington John, cattle dealer Shiplon Ivev. George, incumbent Stevenson John, gardener Straw Edward, schoolmaster, Bole Ilill

Basket Makers.

Drabble Edv/ard Goodlad John, (and parish olerk)

Platts Henry, Croio

Turner Wm.

5 Anthony Edward

Bland Henry Bradbury Eobert, Woodscats Halt Brown Jc(hn, Grange Candwell James, Upr

per Woodscats Dale George

Drabble Edward |

Drabble Joseph

6 Ellis Stephen Eeatherstone Owen Goodlad George, Lees

Gosling Geoi'gG Gratton Joseph Brent

7 Hallatt Sampson

Hill Joseph & John,

Hollely John, jun..

Holmes George Holmes John 3 Hopkinsou David Howard William,

Crow Ball 9 Hy worth, John Hukin John, Bole

7 Little-wood John Lomas John, Biooh

Margerrison Josepli MargGrrison ^Ym.,

Mart Wm. 5 Marples Isaac and

Needham Thomas, (ft timber surveyor,) Oulis Inne Owen John, Crow

8 Finder Anthony Eain forth Bciij., Far

Rainforth "William,

Broddlp.y lane Shaw George, Grange

Simpson Mary 1 Simpson Walter Stevenson George,

High Lightly 5 Slack Martin 1 Swift Edward Taylor Thomas,

Turner James

1 Turner Joshua, High

5 Woollen Robert,

Moor Hall

9 Dale George Stevenson George

1 Bargh Ann Simpson Mary Stevenson John

Margerrison Joseph Wright George

Haslara Mark HodkinWm., Grange

Margerrison. Gervasp, (and builder & con-

Stevenson Jas., Croio

BEAUCHIEF ABBEY, an extra parochial liberty, bounded by the parish of Norton, on the W., 4 miles S.W, of Sheffield, and Sf miles N.W. by N. from Dronfield, contains and 71 females; rateable value, £850. The Church is a small neat edifice, erected about 1660, with reeded windows, double buttresses at the an^^les, and an ancient tower, which belonged" to the abbey that formerly existed here. T\\q living^ a donative in the presen- tation of E, Y. P. Burnell, Esq., and incumbency of the ReA''. J. Cokerton, M.A., of Dron- field. In the church is a monument to Elizabeth, wife of Benjamin Broughton Steade, who aftcrwaids assumed the name of Pcgge Burnell, on coming to this estate. On the monument is the figure of an old woman, craving charity at the door of a lai'go mansion, from the steps of vrhicli is descending a lady with a dish in her hand, as if in the act to serve her. The poor beggar's stick lies on the steps besides her, seemingly to have been thrown there on the approach of her benefactress. The monument is of marble, and on the head are the arms of the Burnell family. About two years ago, a handsome stained glass window was put up in the church, representing tiie Resurrection of our Saviour, under which is the family vault of the Burnells.

The Abbey of Beauchief, or Do Bello Capite, was situated at this place, in a little valley near the northern boundary of the county. It was founded by Robert Fitz Ranulph, between 1172 and 1176, and opened for the reception of an abbot and canons of Premonstratensian. order, about 1183. They were aLo called white canons, from their habit, which was a white cossack, wHh rochet over it, a long white cloak and white caps. It was dedicated to Thomas a Becket and the Yirgin Mary, and, from the former patron, has been supposed to have been erected in expiation of his murder, by its founder, who has been represented as one of the executioners of the proud Archbishop of Canterbury. Dugdale states, " That Robert Fitz Ranulph, lord of Alfrcton, Norton, and Marnham, was one of the four kights who martyred the blessed Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canter- bury." Bishop Tanner, also says, "Beauchief, an Abbey of Premonstratensian, or White Canons, founded by Robert Fitz Ranulph, one of the executioners of Thomas a Becket." The late Dr. Pegge, the learned antiquarian of Whittington, discountenances this tradition, - his arguments, however, being chiefly founded on the circumstances of the founder's brother being afterwards in great favour with Henry 11., does not appear conclusive, - particularly when opposed to Dugdale, Fuller, Bishop Tanner, and others, who have written on the subject. The founder, besides granting land for building of the Abbey, endowed it with the Churches of Norton, Alfrcton, AVymondeswoid, and Edwaldeston,. (Elvaston,) and the mill at Norton, with all the tolls of the business. He also granted lands in variovis other places. William, the son, and Robert, the grandson of the said Robert, were also considerable benefactors to the Abbey. The advowson of the Church of Dronfield, land in Brampton, and various tenements in Chesterfield, Brampton, New-

bold, Boxfhorp, Hasland, and Heath, also formed part of tlie endowment of Beauchief

In 1 487, tlic convent consisted of an abbot and twelve brothers. John Sheffield, the last abbot, surrendered the house into the Kiog's hands, Feb. 4, 1536; at "vvhich time the clear, spiritual, and temporal estate of the abbey amounted to £126 3s. 4d. "At its dissolution it was valued, according to Leland, at £15 10s. 2d," On the 10th of April, 153/, Henry VIII. granted the site of the Abbey with the estate belonging to it, to Sir Nicholas Strelley, of Strelley, Nottinghamsliire, for the sum of £223. The son and grandson of the founder were both interred at Beauchief, and it is most probable that the founder himself was buried here. Strelley Pegge, Esq., of Beauchief, in 1742, married Miss Mary Boughty, and was succeeded in his estate, by his son, Peter Pegge, Esq., who afterwards took the name of Burnell ; he married one of the daughters of Wm. Milnes, Esq., of Cromford, but had no issue. He was succeeded by Broughton Benjamin Pegge Burnell, Esq., at whose death the estate passed into the hands of its present possessor, Edward Yalcntine Pegge Burnell, Esq., who occasionally resides at The Hall.

Biggin Miss Eliz., housekeeper, The Tlali Crapper Joseph, shoemaker and farmer Hall William, gamekeeper Hibbert Robert, shoemaker Lomas Joseph, gardener, The Hall

Moakes Samuel, farm bailiff

Sampson Geo., fire brick mnfr., and steward

Smith Mrs. Mary, The Hall Smith Wm. Broughton, Esq., The Hall

BEIGHTON, is a parish of considerable extent, being situated at the north-east extremity of the Scarsdale Hundred, and of the county, bounded on the east and north by Yorkshire, having the river Eother on the east, and a small stream on the north, which falls into the Rofher at the north-east extremity. It is a rich agricultural district, in a lis, 2|. The parish comprises the township of Beighton and the hamlets of Hacken- thorpe, Birley, and Sotlial. Earl Manvers is lord of the manor, and owns about two-thirds of the parish ; here are also several smaller owners. The parish is intersected by the Midland, and the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire railv/ays, both of which pass Beighton on the east, the latter has a neat station here. The Chesterfield canal also crosses the parish at its north-east extremity.

Beighton is a large village, pleasantly situated on an eminence, 7 miles S.E. from Sheffield, and 11 miles N.E. by N. from Chesterfield. The approach to the village from Eckington is through a massive stone cutting. The Church, dedicated to St, Mary, is a lai-ge ancient structure, with nave, chancel, side aisles, and square tower, in which are six bells. In the vestry room, adjoining the chancel, are two flagstones with inscriptions in latin. In Bassano's volume of " Church Notes" is mentioned a monument to Edward Dowsette, who died in 1501. ll)ie .living is a vicarage, valued in the King's book at with £200, Queen Anne's bounty. Earl Manvers is patron and impropriator, and the Hon, and Rev, Thomas Erskine, M,A., incumbent. The Vicarage is a large and good resi- dence, situated close to the church. The Reform Chapel is a small handsome stone build- ing, erected by the Wesleyans in 1849, at a cost of £200, defrayed by subscription ; it will seat about 130, The National Schools for Hackenthorpe and Beighton, situated about midway betwixt the two villages, was erected in 1854, and opened March 1st, 1855 ; it is a neat stone building, with a house attached for the master, will hold about 150, the average attendance being 60. The whole were erected at a cost of £800 ; Earl Manvers gave the site, (one acre), and the government granted £367 towards the cost, the remainder being raised by subscription. Here is an Odd-Fellows Lodge and a Funeral society. At the inclosure in 1800, the common land was exonerated from the tithe, and in 1840 the other was commuted under the act, when £258 9s. 6d. was valued as impropriate corn, rent, and

BirJey and Birley Vale form the western side of the parish, where, on the Mos- borough road, the "Wesleyan Meshodists have a chapel ; and here is an extensive colliery, now under lease to the Sheffield Coal Company, from whence coals are forwarded to all parts of the kingdom.

Birley Spa, 4| miles S.E. from Sheffield, has long been noted for its great efficacy. These baths were first brought into repute by a lady now resident in the neighbourhood, who taking a delight in bathing, often resorted here in her childhood for that purpose, previous to the erection of the first bath, which took place several years ago. The medicinal virtues of the waters becoming more generally known from numerous well authenticated cures obtained here. Earl Manvers, the owner, empowered a committee of four gentlemen to erect a respectable and commodious establishment, with seven baths, of various dimensions, for the use and comfort of the public generally, which was carried into effect in 1843. It is situated in a sylvan and rural glen, entirely surrounded by romantic hills, tastefully laid out and planted. Tea, coffee, and other refreshments are provided at the Spa lodging house, by the resident manager. The water has been analysed by Professor West, of Leeds, and found to possess properties of a very valuable nature ; and many cures have been made since the present baths were opened.

Hackenthorpe is a village 4| miles S.E. from Sheffield, noted as one of the ancient seats of the sickle manufacture, which appears still to rank high in that trade, about 30,000 dozens being made here yearly. Messrs. Thomas Staniforth and Co., are the most exten- sive manufacturers in the kingdom, giving employment to the principal part of the village, as well as many others in the neighbourhood, in the manufacture of scythes, sickles, reaping-hooks, &c. The Eeformers have a small neat stone Chapel here, erected by the Wesleyans, several years ago, which will seat about 70. The Hall, 5 miles S.E. of Sheffield, is a large ancient mansion, erected in 1653, the residence of James Hounsfield, Esq.

Sothall, a hamlet consisting of a few scattered farms, pleasantly situated on an acclivitj^, half-a-mile N."W. from Beighton. Beighton Villa, a neat residence commanding extensive views, is the property of the Eev. Thos. Mountain, and residence of Mrs.

Charities. - Williajn Jessop, by will, 1666, left Thorn-Close and a tenement in Sothall, on trust, to apply one moiety of the yearly rent in apprentice fees, and the other for the benefit of poor housekeepers. The property consists of 5a. Or. 20p.. About 1|a. were allotted at the enclosure in 1798. The whole produces a rental of £14 5s. per annum, which is given to the poor.

John Ncivhold, in 1699, devised certain lands at Handsworth, in Yorkshire, on trust, and directed 40s. yearly to be paid towards the education of four boys, and the residue to be distributed amongst the poor. The land produces an annual sum of £5 15s. 6d., of which £2 17s. 6d. is paid to the schoolmaster, and the remainder given to the poor on St. Thomas's day.

Godfrey Morton bequeathed £40, Richard Worrall, £20, and Seth Shipley, 6s. a j^ear to the poor. The sum of £60 was expended in land caUed Salter Frith close, and certain lands in the Town Field, altogether containing about 6 acres, producing a rental of £9 per annum, to be distributed to the poor, but which we are informed is not carried out.

Robert Green, in 1712, after several contingencies, gave an acre of land, in the Mean meadow, for the benefit of the poor. By other documents it appears that a part of a close called Davy Gap, in the possession of William Hewitt, was exchanged for the Mean meadow, in 1733. The owner gives stuff for three gowns to poor widows, the expense of which is about 30s. The trustees had no power to make the exchange, but the 1a. 1r. 20p. in Davy Gap ought to be measured, and marked with boundary stones as belonging to the

Bcv. Francis Gishornds charity . - {^ec Bradley. )--Thc annual sum of £5 IDs. sent to the incumbent, is laid out in warm clothing and given to the poor.

George Jessop, in 1768, left 40s. per annum, out of Foulish croft, for teaching poor children to read. The owner pays the amount.

John Kewhold left 6s. a year, for the instruction of one hoy, out of his messuage and land called Batcsquare. Earl Manvers rehuilt the school some years ago, which stood on his land. The master altogether instructs 10 children free.

Post Office at Mr. Eichard Ashley's. Letters arrive from Sheffield at 1 p.m., and

Banks Harrison, saddler Dennis Charles, blacksmith Dickinson Olivia, boarding school Draper Thomas, station master

Firth Luko, spring knife, &c., manufacturer,

I'he Manger (tnd Shefjidd Fewks John, bricklayer, Sothnl "Handley Mr. Benjamin, Tlw Terrace Harrison George, gardener Hatfield Mr. Thomas, The Terrace Hobson John, parish clerk Hutchinson George, shoemaker

Moad Mrs. F. A., Beighton Villa

Smith Dmiel & Emma, National school

Stacey Mr. George, Sothal

Trippett Samuel, gardener

Webster Robert, Esq., Beighton Grange

Whitworth Rev. Wm. Hy., M.A., curate

Youle Mrs. Ann, Sothal

Inns and Taverns.

Cumberland Head, Thomas Turton George & Dragon, George Schofield, (&

joiners' tool maker) Oak Inn, John Crookes, sen. Railway Inn, Thomas Murfin

Rivington Josjph Rowbottom Charles

Bates George Cousins Geo., Sothal Dickinson George,

So thai Green Geo., Sothal Hunt John, Water-

thorpe 1 1 all Johnson George Jubb John, Drake

Morton Charles Murfin Thomas

Parker Francis Potter Harriet Potter Henry, Field Potter Thomas Radlcy Jar vis, Manor

Rowbottom Charles Rowbottom Thomas,

Skelton Geo., Sothal Turner Elizabeth Turner Thos., Sothal Turton Richard Tye Thomas Waller Marv

Crookes John, sen.

K itch in Wm. Murfin George Swift Mark

Ashley Richard Stacey Ann

Bates Charles Hobson Charles

Eailway Convey-

Manchester, She fn eld and Lincolnshire £ ranch. -There are 4 passenger trains to Sheffield and Derby, each way daily, (Sundays ex- cepted.) T. Draper, station master

Carrier to Sheffield

Lound Keziah, Tues.

Post Office at Paul Dawes'. Letters arrive from Sheffield at 11.30 a.m., and aro

Aldam Ann, school

Bingham Wm., farm bailiff

Bndd Wm., gardener, Birley Spa

Eyre Edwin, tailor

Hounsfield James, Esq., The Hall

Inker.sall Mrs. Mary

Jenkin Mr. Joseph, Carter Lodge

Linley Elizabeth, beerhouse

Littlewood Edmund, reg, of births & deaths,

Lowj Mrs. Elizabeth

Plant John, agricultural implement maker, and agent fur all kinds of agricultural im-

Sheffield Coal Co., colliery owners, Birley

Shepherd Mr. George

Staniforth Thomas & Co., sickle hook and scythe manufrs.

Staniforth Miss Mary

Street James, blacksmith

Woodhead James, gardener

Inns and Taverns*

New Inn, George Staniforth iSportsman; John Booth

Marsdon Joseph Ward Wm.

Booth John Bramraall Edwd., (& cattle dlr.,) Birley Cannali John

Ilelliwell George, The

Lmley Peter

Linley Thos. , Birley

Marsden Joseph

Xewton James

Plant John. Birley

South Thomas, Com- mon side

Staniforth Henry, (& scythe manufr.)

Littlcwood Joseph

Brammall Thomas

Rowbotham John

Booth Thomas Clayton Sarah Dyson Elizabeth Hunt Charlotte Stoniforth Georaro

BLACKWELL, a parish and pleasant healthy village, 3| miiss N.E. from Alfreton, 7 miles S.S.W. from Mansfield, and 16| miles from Derby, contains 1,668 acres of land, rateable value £1609. The Duke of Devonshire and the Dowager Countess of Carnarvon hold the manor jointly, and are considerable owners. John Slater Wilkinson, George Adlington, Edward Sampson, Henry Rowland, and William Do^vning, Esqs., have also estates in the parish. The Church, delicated to St. Werburgh, rebuilt in 1824, is a hand- some stone edifice, with nave, chancel, sides aisles, and tower, with three bells, and contains some ancient monimients to the Adlington and Wilkinson families; it formerly belonged to the priory at Thurgarton, Nottinghamshire. In the churchyard is an ancient stone cross ornamented with braids and knotwork. The livbig is a vicarage, valued in the King's Duke of Dev(mshire is the patron, and tlic Rev. Thos. Lseson Cursham, D.C.L., incumbent, vrho has 1a. 2r. 3p. of glebe. The tithes have been commuted for £101. The lords of taught free.

HiLLCOTE, is a small village quarter of a mile S. of Blackwell, with a few farm houses and the hall, an ancient mansion half a mile S. of the Church, overgrown with ivy is the property of J. Wilkinson, Esq., Vv'hose ancestors have long held the estate, and their seat here, but which is at present unoccupied. The Primitive Methodists have a small chapel

Newton is a small village, half a mile N. of Blackwell. Sccmderhind^ ~ mile W., and West House, 4| miles W. of Blackwell, are farm houses. The parish is noted for its collieries, which are worked by John Chambers, Esq. The feast is at Midsummer. Gilbert Holies, Earl of Clare, and Sir John Molineux, Bart, were lords of the manor in 1710. In 1742, the Duke of Newcastle's trustees sold their part to the Duke of Devonshire.

Charities. - John Ludlain\<i charity. - (See Alfreton). - The annual simi of 40s.. received from his bequest, is distributed amongst the poor on Good Friday and Michaelmas,

Samuel Boot, by will, 1736, gave to the minister and churchwardens a close called tlje Rail, on trust, that they and their successors should for ever, on the day of his death, and no other day, distribute the rents thereof amongst the poor. The close contains 1a. Ie,. 18p., and the annual rent, £2 10s., is distributed at Midsummer.

Thomas Strut t, who died about 1790, left by will £25, the rent to be dealt to the poor on St. Thomas's day. This sum was in the hands of Wm. Butcher, a draper at Sutton, in Ashfield, who failed about 1818, since which nothing has been paid.

Bev. Francis Gisborne's charity. - (See Bradley.) The annual sum of £5 10s., received by the incumbent, is laid out in coaVse woollen cloth and fiannel, and distributed amongst the poor about Christmas.

Marked * are at Newton, and f at HiUcote, -

* Adlington George, Esq.

Ball George AVard, vict., and framework

knitter, Robin Hood and Little John Boot William, cowkeejfer

Boucher John M., wheelwright

* Edge Edward, shopkeeper

Dobb Geo., beerhouse and shopkeeper

Dobb Matthew, shopkeeper

Dobb Saml., vict., George &Dragoii

* Limb George, shoemaker

Marriott Eichard, blacksmith and agricul- tural implement maker, engineer, and

Mellors Nathan, coal master

Mountany William, boarding and day school and registrar of births and deaths, for Mansfield Union

* Rawson John, blacksmith

* Eowland Henry, maltster, Neivton Villa

* Adlington Eliz. t Askey Thos.

* Bettridge John Ball Geo. Ward t Ball John

t Blythe Edw.

Boucher John M.

* Branson Neville t Brian John

* Clarke William, (and

Downing Samuel, West House

Downing William Haslam John * Longmate Robt. Marple Henry, Pas- ture House Pipe George

Sampson Edw. Sampson Stephen,

Church Hill Swain Benjamin Wall Roger Wilson Samuel

BOLSOVER is a large parish, and contains the townships of Bolsover and Glapwell which together, comprise 5441a. 3ii. 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

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, 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. 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 stylo, 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 efiigy 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 Imeeling postiires. 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 Holies, 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, 1 854, 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

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

In the chancel is the tomb of Huntington Smithson, architect, %yho died in 1648; with other memorials to the Y/'oolhouse 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 HaUowes, Esq. was buried at Bolsover, in 1806. The most ancient and remark- able 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 tlie 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 lili;ely 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 Belesoiwr, 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, Geoifrej" 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 I'iOB. 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, 121G), 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 Bergayenny, haying been assigned as part of

her portion in 1236. Other lands having heen given in exchange to Hastings, 1243, Bols- over reverted to the crown and was not afterwards in possession of a subject till 1514. Roger do Lovetot v/as made governor in 1253. Ealph Pipard was appointed governor of Bolsover and Hareston castle for life, in 1301 ; he died in 1308. Sir Eiehard Surry died seized of the castle and manor in 1395 ; Edmund of Hadham, Earl of Richmond, father of King liemy 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 expedition 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 Shrews- bury, in whose family it continued till 1613, when Gilbert, Earl of ShreAVsbury 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, ^ho 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 wo find in the time of Leland (about 1550) this ancient fortress \^^as 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 vras transferred to him by the Shrevy-sbury family. The now 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 j'^ears after he had completed it^ and was succeeded by his elder son, William, v.^ho, 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 Bothaiand Hepple, and Marquis of New- castle; and in 16G5, Earl of Ogle, and Duke of Newcastle. This loyal nobleman enter- *taincd King Charles I. with great magnificence at Bolsover, when he was on his way to Scotland, in 1633. The expense of the dinner was £4,000. Lord Clarendon speaks of it as ."such an excess of feasting as had scarce ever been known in England before, and Vr'ould 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 vv'ith 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

rsoLSovEii rARisH. 6C3

On tho breaking out of tlio Civil wars, tlic Duke, owing to Iiis attaclimcnt to ths royal cx.uo, v/as obliged to loavc tli3 country and rosido at Aatworp till tho restoration. Tlio Earl of Newcastle being commander in chief of tlio King's forces for the northern and midland counties, placed a garrison at Bolsover, of v/]nch he made Colonel Muscharap governor. The Earl was at Bolsover with his staff in the montli of December, 1643. About .the middle of August, 1044, Bolsover Castle was taken by j^Iajor-General Crawford. T!io parliamen-ar}^ writers rcpre3?rit ii: as having been v/eil manned and fortified with :at guns and strong works. It is said to have surrendered on summons, and that 120 jskcts v.-ere taken in it, with much plunder. T/hon the Marquis's estates, which had -n seized by the parliament, were about to be sold, bis friends in England made great ' ;rts to save Bolsover and Y/elbeek, but in vain. Bolsover v/as purchased on specala- n, with the intention of jmlling 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 MansHeld, after the death of his uncle, had Bolsover Castle some time in possession, but v/as unable to repair it. When the King's affairs had giown desperate, the Marquis of Newcastle retired to the continent, and resided chiefiy 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 from public life, spending his time chiefly in the country, " j^leasing himself," as the Duchess in the life of her husband expresses herself, " in the manage- ment 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 Antv>^erp, he pub- lished his celebrated work on horsemanship. A second edition Vv^a3 published in England, in 1 GG7. 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 pur- suits ; the^'' 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 manu- script. 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 Hollos, Earl of Clare, vdio, in 1G9:*, was created Duke of Newcastle. Henrietta, their onl}- daughter and heiress, married Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford. Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley, heiress of tlie E^rl of Oxford, brought the manor, or as it is called in some records, the barony, of Bolsover, to William, Duke of Poitland, great grandfather of the present noble ov/ner, William John Cavendish Bentinck, Duke of Portland. The barony of Bolsover and Woodthorpe v*^as valued in 1C41,

BoUovar Castle stands on the abrupt brow of a steep hill, and commands some beau- tiful 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 comer. 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 ai'o noble and lofty rooms. In the first story, the piUars 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

and iDeautifully carved. The pillars in the centre are both elegant and massive, the v/ains- cotiug 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 Eev. John Hamilton Gray, in marble, executed in Eome. - 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 Yenice. 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, whieli 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 relics 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 Eev. 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 Hard wick," instead of having been collected during the last c[uarter of a century.

There have been various opinions concerning the date of the magni-ficent range of buildings which extend along the grand teiTace, 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 Eolsover (165^), 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 m.ade 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 nov/ habitabls, by his father. The Duke's additions probably consisted of the spacious riding-house, for the practice of his favourite amusement, the smithy, &c. During the sequestration of the estates of its noble owner, Bolsover Castle suffered much, both as to its buildings and furniture, but these damages v/ere repaired by the Duke after the Res- toration. 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 the 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 v\^hole-length of the Duchess of New- castle, in ono of the passages, in a fancy dress, by Diepenbeck. The gallery at Bolsover

Bolsover Park, which was enclosed in the year 1209, 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 magni- ficent 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 tho most stirring incidents in English history. In the

distance tlie mountains of the Peak, the heautiful undulations of Scarsdale, the rich scenery of Sutton Park, the noble woods and mansioiL of Ilardwick, - 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

Bolsover was formerlj^ 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 neighbour- hood. 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 neigh- bourhood. Hocldey, a district, which forms the N.W. part of the village. Oxcrojt^ 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. Shuttleicood, a hamlet, 2 miles N.N.W. Here are the remain's 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 v/ent from this place to London. Woodhouse, a small hamlet and village, one mile N.N.W. from

Glapwell, a small village and township, on the Chesterfield and Nottingham road, 5 miles N.W. fr. Mansiield, 3 m. S. fr. Bolsover, and. 7 S.E. from Chesterfield, contains 739a. is the sole owner, and resides at the Hall, an ancient mansion, on a bold elevation near the village. The manor (Glapeicdle), 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. Yfoolhouse, 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 Darlcy 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. - Bichard Ycnde, in 1699, gave 20s. for a distribution of bread on Christ- mas day. Wm. V/ilkson left Gs. 8d. a year to poor widows ; and Francis Tompkiu 1 Os- annually to the poor, which are distributed at Christmas. The poor have also 10s. a year from the bequest of Sichard Johnson, (who also left lOs. yearly to the poor of Clown), and tlio interest of £10 from the bequest of Ann Stones.

Samuel Doioker, 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. thi^ee 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, proTided they had resided four

years in tlio parbli cf Eolsovcr at the time of their marriage, and the person ^yita whom thoy should intermarry had resided there the same period. The remainder of the dividends, dcdii3ting £6 for the vicar for his trouble, was to be distributed to poor persons. No marriage portions have been paid, though some applications have boon made, but regarded as not being qualified. The divideds, amounting to £99 03., are annually distributed on Christmas day and on Easter Tuesday, among poor persons of

Jic.v. Francis Glsliorne's clutrity. (See Bradley.) - The sum of £5 10s. received by the vicar, is laid out in woollen cL)th and blankets, and given to the poor.

Those marlicd 1 ara at Oxcroft, 2 Shuttlcwood, 3 Staiifres, 4 W'liaJc.ij, 5 Woodhousc, and

the rest at Bohoi^cr.

Post Office^ at A. Shaclilock's. Letters arrive from Chcstcriield, at 9.0 a.m., and are despatched at 4.0 p.m.

Barton Yv'"m., letter out of drills

Bennett Chas., surveyor, and agent to Legal

and Commercial Fire and Liie OiSco Bond Fredk., corn factor 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. Havwood Richd., confectioner Heald Geo., glover, constable, and assistant

Hodgkinson Mrs. Mary Hopkin Wm., tinner and brazier Jackson Richard, gent. . Limb Geo., coal owner, Oxer oft Lucas Mr. Matthew, Nunnery House Mellors Job, besom maker

Marsh Jas. Thos National, Jno.Windle

Basket Makers.

Chailesworth Job Charlesv.'-orth John prabble Thomas

Gunby John Johnson John., (and

Johnson Stephen

Eoot and Shoe

Bennett John

Broad Charles Dickins Yincent Drury John Higginbottom James Pearson George Shacklock Stephen

Hartley Samuel Jackson Matthew Pearce Edward

Chimney Sweeps-

Gascoyne John Hughes John

Corn Millers.

Bunting Alfred

Palmer William, gent.

Pearce Miss Mary

Pulleyn John, gent.

Robinson John gent.

Rose Y'm., painter and gilder

Shaddock Ann, dressmaker

Turner John, nail maker

Twidale Wm., trav. tea dealer

Whitaker John, beerhouse

Wilson James, lime burner

Inns and Taverns.

Anchor, James Martin

Angel, Thos. Heath

Barley Mow, Wm. Chapman

Black Bull, Haia'ict Mellors

4 Black Horse, Abraham Pressley

Blue BA\, Robt. Bond

Cross Keys, John Hutton, (& baker)

3 Royal Oaik, Eras Shacklock,(& clock mkr)

White Swan, Jph. Cree

Smith Thos.

4 Armstrong Benj. Armstrong Edward Armstrong Richard Atkinson Henry Barker, John, Cop})ice Bond Robert Brown Wm., JFood

5 Bunting John 3 Calow Jno.,(&brick

Carter John .Charlesworth Mary Charlesworth RichaiTl Cooke Wm., Woodsida

Cox George, IVoodsido Cree Joseph 3 Eyre Joseph

5 Green Thomas Harvey Wm Heath Solomon 4 Hunt Robert

Hutton John Jackson Ann Jackson James Jackson AVm.

2 Lawrence John

5 Nicholson Catherine Pearce John

3 Richardson Ann Robinson Ann

2 Saunders Richard

Shac'.klock Joshua 3 Simpson Joseph.

1 Simpson Thos. Skinner Jno., Oxcroft 5 Smith George Spite George Stocks AVm.

2 Stubbins Samuel

3 Thorneley John, (& lime burner)

Tinsley Geo., Moor Whitaker John

Bennett Thos. BuntingJno. Freeman,

Charlesworth Ann Haywood Thos. Meakin John

Hook Makers.

Walters Aaron

Walters Samuel, (and

Walters William

Joiners «& Cabinet

Brown Thos. Crookes Henry Cuthbert Jph.,(&bkr) Hind Chpr. Shacklock Abraham Walters Saml., jun.

Adsetts John Brown Wm., Wood-

Dean Edward Sykes George

Charlesworth Mary Ilcald John Savage George Wall Thos.

Stone Masons.

Brookes Joshua Charlesworth George Charlesworth Rd., jun. Helling worth John Hughes Benjamin Wragg Thos.

Alsop Anthony Marplfcs Fras. Dickins,

Mhd. * are Drapers. Booker Geo.

* Crookes Francis Furniss John "'Haywood John *Haywood Thos. Stubbins Thos.

Ytrinry. Surgeons

Martin James Waterhall John

Handley Joseph Meakin Thos.

Chesterfield ; Joseph. Mcllors and John Whitaker, Sat.

Mansfield; Jph. Mcll- ors and Thos Wall,

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

Thompson Wm., shoemaker Whit worth Wm., blacksmith Wood Wm., farm steward

Boler Thomas

Dickin Robert Shaw John Wardley Joseph, Lane

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.

BRACKEjSTFIELD is a scattered village, principally situated upon an open green, 4| miles N.W. from Alfrcton, 7 miles S. from Chesterfield, and 1 8 from Derby. It contains Es:p-3., avo joint lords of the manor and owners, but Gladwin Turbutt, Esq., is also a con- siderable 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 wliich was given by GladAvin 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 bo 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 Shcrland, 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

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

Ogston Hall and manor, one mile E. from tlic church, is the seat and property of Gladwin Turbutt, Esq., a magistrate and deputy lieutenant for the county. lioad Nook an ancient hall, which is the manor house of Brackenfiekl, is the property and residence of Mr. George "Wragg. The family of Heriz possessed Ogstone and Brackenfiekl, then called Brackenthwaytc, in the reign of King John. Sir Eichard "Willoughby held Brackenfiekl 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 Pavil Jenkinson, Bart., of "Waltcn, near Chesterfield. Mr. Turbutt purchased a moiety of John Woodyearo, Esq., of Crook- hill, near Doncaster, who married a granddaughter of Lady Jenkinson. Feast, first Sunday after AVhitsuntide.

Chauities. - £8 lOs. is received from the rector of Morton in respect of Gisbome's and Turbutt' s charities, which is distributed to the poor.

Those marled * reside at Woolley,

Bradley Job, shopkeeper Bnrgoyne Hy. & Eliz., National cchool * Crofts James, wheelwright Grifiiths Edwd., railway contractor Hadfield Joseph, vict., Plough

Haslara Eliz., tanner

Limb John, stonemason

Milnes George, beerhouse

Turbutt Gladwin, Esq., Ogston IJall

Askew "Wm. *Barker Edwd.

* Barker George *Bradley George Bradley Job

* Crofts James *Draycott John *Elliott Francis

Hadfield Joseph *Haslam James Hill John Hopkinson Saml. Knowlcs Robert,

Limb Ruth Limb Susan

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

Spencer Thomas I'owndrow Edward

Shegdleq House Wragg Eliz. Wra gg George, Manor

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 con- jointly, and for parochial purposes is divided into the L'pper and Lower divisions. It shire is principal owner and lord of the manor, which is chiefly freehold ; a part of Cut- thorpe is copyhold. The Duke of Portland, Sir George Sitwell, Bart., and Robt. Arkwright, Esq., v/ith 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 chmch, and has 20 acres of glebe; the tithes have been commuted; the large for £411 8s. lOd., and the small for £90 Gs. 4d. A small school and residence for the master were erected here in 1830, towards 'whioli the National School Society gave £100 for endowment. (See

Beampton Moon 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 spacious stiucture, with a handsome pinnacled tower, and cost £2,930 4s. The Ziyj/27 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 th3 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 3| 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 \y alter Deincourt. The two former appear to have been united at an early period. This manor of Brampton was given by King Ilcnry II. to Peter de Brampton, whom it is supposed was the second son of Matilda de Cauz, or Cans, heiress of the barony of Cans, 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 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. Bravijfton House, 1 mile W. from Chesterfield, is the property and residence of Wm. Claughton, Esq, Bridge House, h mJle "W.N.W. from Chesterfield, is the property and residence of Mrs. Booth. Ashgate, an ancient mansion, formerly the property of the Clarks, 2 miles W. from Chester- field, is now the property and residence of John Gorrell Barnes, Esq. Cuttkorpe, a small village, pleasantly situated on an eminence commanding fine views, forms the north side of the parish, 1^ miles N. by E. from Brami)ton. The Hall, now a farm house, is a very ancient building. Zinacre, formerly esteemed a subordinate manor, wcfs 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. TTV/f- she^f, 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, I 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 bene- factions, viz. : - £1 per annum is received as the rent of half an acre of land awarded at the enclosure. In 1679, Peter Calton left IDs. per annum ; Robert Sutton, 20s. ; John 20s. ; and Dorothy Heath the interest of £40. In consideration of these sums, the master instructs 16 children free.

Sir Gilbert Clarhe, in 1701, gave his lands at Harwood, in Bakcwell parish, upon trust, to apply one third of the rents to the minister of Brampton, one third towards the support of a schoolmaster, and the remaining third part in apprentice fees. By an old

in £200 three per cent, consols, and the residue, £S 3s., was in the hands of "William 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

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 Neicholdy the interest of £20 to the minister for preaching a sermon on Easter Tuesday ; and Joshua Sibbert, 1 Os. 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 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 (3ducation of two boys, 60s. to be expended in bread for the 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 Shai&s, John ATirode' 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 Foljamhe's Charity. - (See Chesterfield.) - The scale of division, according to the population, recommended by the Commissioners, will give Brampton £33 8s. 10|d.

James Shaic, of London, in 1630, devised certain premises at "West Smithficld, 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 oi £100 was received as a fine on a lease, and vested on turnpike security. poor, lOs. for a sermon on St. Thomas's day, and lOs. to the clerk and churchwardens for

Henry Hatlcy, 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 Boot e, 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

George Wilkes, it is stated, gave £10 to tho 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 ]iay the interest in the same manner as Foljambe's charity. The interest £24, is distri- buted in sums rarying from 20« to 5e* to poor peraouis.

Ann Stevenson, in 1743, gave to the poor of tlie hamlet of "Watshelf £5, for whicli 6s. as interest, is distributed to poor widows.

Marlted 1 reside at Ashgate, 2 Brampton Moor, 3 Cuttlior'pe. 4 Eastmoor, 5 Holymoor side, Q Loads, 1 Overgreen, 8 OxenraJtes, 9 Pratt Hall, 10 Watshelf, and the rest in

Fost Offiee, at Martha Elliott's, Brampton Moor. Letters arrive from Chesterfield, at

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 wickmnfr.

Hewitt John, candle wick mnfr. ; h. Fair-

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, Solymoor Works; h. Rye-hill

Melland Stephen, gent.. Upper Leadhill

2 Parkin & Co., brewers; Stephen Bennison,

Peach Rev. Wm., M.A., incumbent

Robinson Jonth., tobacco pipe maker

2 Rooth Wm., chemical works

Rooth Mrs. Bridge Rouse

2 Elliott Thos. ,2 Gregory John Hudson George

2 Patteson Edw.

3 Reddish Reuben .2 Rhodes Tnos.

2 Turner Chas. 2 Turner Paul 2 Watts Joseph

Barton Stephen 6 Bennett John

2 Simpson Samuel, nail maker

1 Stovin Miss

4 Taylor Jabez, manager at Eastmoor chim- ney pot and drain pipe Fottei y

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 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

1 0 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

4 Heath Samuel Marples Geo.

10 Newbold Geo. 2 Stubbin Samuel 2 Watts Joseph

Boot & Shoemkrs.

2 Barker Thos. Canlin Richd. 2 Platts Edw.

5 Short Isaac

2 Turner Iscac

2 Wright Saml.

Box (Paper & Chip)

2 Robinson John B. 2 Robinson Wra.

Brick & Tile Mkrs

2 Knowles Luke 2 Knowles Math. 4 Taylor Edley, (fire)

2 Addy Thos.

2 Gaunt Henry

2 Hayes John

2 Haslam Joseph

Parker Geo.

2 Sedgwick Thos.

2 Turner Wm.

Candle-wick Mfrs

2 Hewitt, Bunting, &

Corn Millers.

2 Elliott Wm. Lindley Geo., Nether

Colliery Owners.

Mhl. * are Ironstone

1 Barnos Edw.

Bi'own Enzor, Brooli

2 Dawson George

2 Hoskin Geo.

3 Mason John Marsden John

2 Marsden Thos. 2 Wilcockson Jas,

Eartlmwr. Browri

and Stone Bottle

2 Knowles Lidco 2 Knowles Matthew

2 Oldfield John

4 Taylor Edley, man- ney pots, drain pipe? &c., Eastnioor Fot-

Elastic Fabric

2 Kent and Hackett

8 Addy Edward ID Addy Edw., jun.

2 Alsop Dorothy

8 Anthony Edward Anthony Geo. 4 Barnes Samuel

2 Best wick Henry 8 Botham John G Bower Chas. Bower Wm.

3 Bower AVm.

4 Brown George Brown Henry Brown Jas., Rufford

3 Crookes Wra.

10 Davenport Thos. Dicken Robt.

4 Dixon John Henry Drabble Jno., Hollins Drabble Joseph

10 Fisher John

1 0 Froggatt Ezekiah

Gregory lliehard

4 Gregory William, (&

cheese factor)

10 Hancock Geo. 10 Hancock Thos.

4 Heath Saml.

4 Heath John "2 Heathcote Geo. 4 Hill George

4 Hill John

6 Hogg Eichard -2 Holmes Thos.

5 Hudson Saml. Keeton Job

6 Lindley Geo. Littlewood Thos.

5 Lowe Isaac

10 Lowe John Marsden Jno., Grove Marsden William,

9 Margerison John 8 Margerison Peter

3 Mason John

6 Massey John

1 0 Newbold John lONewbold Ruth Parker Richd., Poole

8 Pearson Samuel Pyatt Jas., Rufford Inn 3 Rodgers Mrs.

5 hem well John 2 Turner Isaac Turner Saml.

5 Turner Wm.

6 Wagstaff Geo. 3 Webster Jas. Webster Wm. 1 0 White Joseph 10 Widowson Thos. Wilcockson Ann,

Brook side Wilcockson Edw. Wilcockson Joseph

3 Woodward Wm. 6 Wright Joseph

Iron and Brass

2 Sneath John

Mkd. " are WJieelicgts

*Arthur Geo.

2 *Eriiott John 2 Graham Henry o *Hartley Geo. 2 *Hattersley John

5 Hopkinson Geo. *Knowles Adam 2 Marsden Chas.

Needle and Wire

2 Hackett, Kent, and Co., mnfrs. of steel and iron wire, bon- net wire, cap springs and small- wares

Plumbers, Paint-

2 Green Mark 2 Peak John 2 Slack Abraham 2 Taylor John

2 Glossop Ann 2 Haslam Eliza J.Vational,Enochllovz-

Hallow^s & Harriet

2 Reddish Eliz.

2 Simmonite Matilda 2 Winter Caleb

5 Binghnm Chas.

2 Boot Edward

2 Briddon Richd.

2 Bryars Michael

2 Butler Susan

2 Burton Bcnj.

Canlin Sarah

2 Cook Daniel

2 Dawson Isaac

i 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 Longdin John 2 Margerison Chas. 2 Middleton Jacob 2 Parker Francis 2 Rhodes Chas. 2 Simpson Luke 2 Smith George 2 Taylor James 2 Turner Wm. 2 Tyson Thos. Wain Wright D.

2 Hancock Henry 2 Longdin John 2 Rowland Geo.

2 Barker Saml., Welch

2 Haflam Robert 2 Hubbuck John Slack Geo. 2 Tother Andrew 2 Wainwright David 2 Wormsley Samuel

BRIMINGTOjS", parish and large village, formerly a chapelry belonging to Chester- field, 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 houses and 1103 inhabitants, of whom 560 were males and 540 females; rateable value

£4014 14s. The houses are neat and modern built. Eichard BaiTOW, Esq. is lord of the manor and o-^ner. E. Y. 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 1 808 ; 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 bounty, and £1200 parliamentary grant. The vicar of Chesterfield is patron. The Eccle- siastical Commissioners impropriators, and the Rev. Frederick Arnold, B.A., incumbent. The Parsonage, is a substantial residence, erected about twelve years ago, a little W. of the Church. The "Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have each chapels here, the former built 1803 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 £6-2, 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 brick 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, If 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 the 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, Loudhara, 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.

Braihford 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

Hev. Franciii Gisborne's charity. - (See Bradley.) - The annual sum of £7 5i. is laid out in warm clothing, and given to the poor about Christmas.

Post OJice, at Abel Toplis's, letters arrive from Chesterfield at 7 a.m., and art despatched at 7 p.m.

Allen Job, constable

Arnold Be v. 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 Sacheyerell, The

Inns and Taverns.

Bugle Horn, Wm. Greaves

New Inn, Isaac Ball

Bed Lion, George Harper

Three Horse Shoes, Mary Ann Oscroft

Orwin Matthew Salmon Wm. Siddall Silenca Smith Robt. Tarr

Allwood Thomas Kichards George

Brick Blakers.

Dickson James Smith Robt. Parr

Holmes Henry

Bagguley Thos. Cropper Thomas, (and

Greaves John He V wood Susannah Holland Wm.

Holmes John

Key Alfred Knowles John Steel Fdk. Whoatlev David White Joseph White Thos.

Marsden William Mycroft Bennett.

Iron Founders.

Snowies John

Milner Joseph Mycroft Bennett

Shoe Makers.

Carrington Joseph Cowlishaw John

Milner Charlotte Toplis Abel

Calow John Fox James Hearnshaw Thomas

CHESTERFIELD, an extensive market and Borough town, comprises within its parish six dependent townships, and is the head of an extensive Poor-law-un,ion. It is pleasantly situated on an eminence, between the rivers Rother and Hipper, (which are at this plac© but inconsiderable streams), 25 miles N. by E. from Derby, 12 miles N.W. from Mansfield, 12 miles S.S.E. from Sheffield, 151 miles N.N.W. from London, on the Sheffield and London road. The Midland Railway between Derby and Leeds passes near the town on its eastern side, where a handsome stone station, with convenient waiting rooms for passengers, has been built; at Masborough, the railway is connected with Sheffield by the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway, the Midland Railway Company being lessees of that line, and have a station at Sheffield. The parish includes the townships of CaloM^, Hasland, Newbold v/ith Dunstan, Tapton, Temple Normanton, and Walton, and pre- vious to the 3rd of September, 1844, had the chapelry of Brimington annexed, which at that period, by order in council, was made a distinct parish for all civil and ecclesias- tical purposes. The parish contains 12,012 acres of land of the rateable value, including

Chesterfield is the capital of the Hundred of Searsdale, and of the deanery to which it gives name, and is a polling place for the north division of the county. The land, having in 1851, 1 555 inhabited houses, 58 uninhabited, and 12 houses building, with actual survey, in 1778, Chesterfield contained 801 houses, and 3,626 inhabitants. The Duke of Devonshire is lord of the manor and a considerable owner of property. The Parish Church, dedicated to All Saints, is an ancient cruciform structure, said to have been dedicated in the year 1232. Twelve years ago, the interior was restored at considerable expense, with open seats, defrayed by public subscription. The living is a vicarage, £400 parliamentary grant. The Bishop of Lichfield is the patron, and the Rev. George Butt, M.A., the vicar. This spacious structure is in the Decorated style of English archi- tecture, with a square embattled tower rising from the intersections, surmounted by a lofty

spire 230 feet high, -which, from the peculiar mode of putting on the lead with which it is covered, though perfectly upright, appears in every direction in which it is viewed, to incline considerahly from the perpendicular. The east window is a fine composition in the latter style, and a beautiful screen and rood-loft ornaments the south transept ; the chancel and nave contain some antique monuments in memory of the Foljambes and others, with several effigies in the attitude of prayer. There was anciently a guild at Chesterfield, dedi- cated to St. Mary and the Holy Cross, valued at £19 per annum. It was established in the time of King Henry II., who maintained two or three priests here; it also appears by an inscription, that before the year 150O, there was a chantry belonging the Church. In 1100, William Kufus gave the Church to the Dean of Lincoln. In the town were three chapels, St. Thomas's was situate'in Holywell street, now in small dwellings, St, Helen's on the site of the Grammar school, and St. James's at Lord's Mill bridge. At Old Spital there was a house for leperous persons, founded in the 1 0th of Richard I. ; these, with the Endowed chapel and chantry, were swept away at the dissolution of the monasteries, in the reign of Henry VIII.

By the death of the late Dean of Lincoln, the patronage of the church, agree- able to the plans of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, is now vested in the Bishop of Lichfield, the rectorial manor and tithes are in the hands of the Commissioners for ecclesiastical improvements. A memorandum in the parish register, dated 1586, notices " the great plague began in Chesterfield." In the months of June and July of the following year, 106 persons were carried off by this awful scourge, which seems to have disappeared during the succeeding winter. In March, 1608, it again made its appearance, but after May it seems gradually to have subsided. The Church register notices that the assizes were held here 15th and 16th March, when five men and one woman suffered the extreme penalty of the law. The assizes were held here owing to the plague being at that time prevalent in Derby. In 1662, the Rev. John Billingsley, M.A., and his curate, the Rev, James Ford, were ejected for nonconformity. In 1756, the church organ was gardens, on the north side of the church, which v/ere taken down and the space added to the church yard. The church clock was erected in 1836, at a cost of £352, raised by a rate. On the 1 7th May, 1 837, the first-stone of Holy Trinity Church v/as laid by his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, who gave the land for the site. It is a neat Gothic structure, with tower, surmounted with pinnacles, capable of accommodating 1,000 persons, and cost £3,300, of which sum £.J00 was obtained from the Diocesan Societ)'-, and the re- mainder was raised by voluntary subscriptions ; a considerable surplus was applied towards the endowment. The patronage is vested in trustees, the vicar of Chesterfield being one. The Rev. Alexander Poole is the incumbent. It constitutes an ecclesiastical district, taking the parts of Chesterfield, Ncwbold, and Tapton, surrounding the church.

The WesUyan Methodist Chapel, Salter gate, was erected about the year 1795, and was considerably enlarged in 1822. The interior is neat, and well fitted up with

The Primitive Methodist Chajyel, Bectwell street, is a neat brick building, erected

The Indcpevdent Chapel, Soresby street, a handsome stone building, 60ft. by 42ft., erected in 1822, is surrounded by a burial ground, convenient school rooms, and vestry adjoins, and galleries were added in 1834, at an expense of £310. It will seat about 700 persons ; the Rev. Robt. W. Selbie, is the pastor. The Independents have also a chapel in South place, formerly possessed by the Baptists.

The General Baptist Chapel is situated in Soresby street.

The Friends' Meeting House, Salter gate, a plain stone building, erected in 1770, and enlarged in 1800 ; a small burial ground is attached.

The Unitarian Chajjd, Salter gate, was built in 1694, by Cornelius Clarke, Esq., of Norton, at an expense of £229 lOs., who vested it in trustees, to be used as a place of worship for Dissenting Protestants. He also bequeathed £80 towards purchasing a house for the minister, some addition to this sum was made by the congregation, and the whole laid out upon a house in St. Mary's gate ; the Eev. Alfred Turner Blythe is pastor.

The Wesleijan Free Church, Elder yard, erected in 1855, at a cost of about £700, is a neat Gothic stone building, capable of seating 420 persons, but galleries are about to be added to increase the accommodation to 500.

2'he Catholic Chapel, Spencer street, built in 1854, is a neat Gothic building, which will aiford accommodation to about 1,400 persons. A house for the priest, and schools are to be added as soon as sufficient funds are raised.

Religious Institutions, which have for their object the promotion of Christian Knowledge, are liberally supported, the members of the Church and the Dissenting communities each subscribe to their respective Bible, Missionary, and Tract Societies. The depository of the Bible Society, and that of the Tract Society, is at Mr. Cornelius Gallimore's, Irongate; and the depository of the Society for Promoting Christian Know- ledge, at Mr. John Bush's, Market place.

Subscription Libranj, at Mr. John E. Roberts's, High street, established 1791, is supported by an annual subscription of one guinea ; the entrance money is two guineas and a half; the Library contains about 1,500 volumes : and in 1831, Mr. Roberts established a News Room in connection with the same.

The Free Grammar, or St. Helen's School, situated on the Sheffield road, was founded b}'- Queen Elizabeth. It was rebuilt in 1710, and again in 1845, at an estimated cost of £"2,037 10s., exclusive of the outbuildings ; it is a handsome stone structure, with a residence for the master. (See Charities for the Endowment.) This school for- merly stood high as a classical seminary, and in common with the schools of Ashboum and "Wirksworth has the presentation to two Fellowships, and two Scholarships, founded by the Rev. Jas. Beresford, in St. John's College, Cambridge. The Rev. Fredk. Calder, head master; Geo. Kirkland, second master; German Hirst, third master; and Mons. T- Borgognon, French and drawing master.

The National Schools, (Trinity) Soresby street, were erected by subscription, in

Girls School of Industry, situated in Holywell street, was built by subscription in 1819. It is conducted on the British plan, will accommodate 150 ; average attendance IQO.

British School, (Boys) - HoUis lane, is a large neat brick building erected in 1844, will accommodate 200, about 150 attend.

Infant School, Holywell street, was erected 1830, about 80 attend.

Victoria School, Vicar Lane, was erected in commemoration of the visit of her Majesty Queen Victoria, in December, 1844 ; about 200 children attend. Here are Sunday schools belonging to the Churches, and all the principal places of worship.

Chesterfield and Brampton Mechanics' Institute, Packer's row, (but is about to bo removed to the New Market Hall,) was established in 1841. The reading room is open every day, from eight in the morning until ten at night, and the library contains 1500 volumes. A discussion class has been established, and the institution is in a highly flourishing state, having upwards of 200 subscribers. Mr. Griffith Jeffreys, librarian.

Benevolent Institutions. - The Dispensary and Hospital, St. Mary's gate, is supported by subscription, and was established in 1800, but no building has been erected for its use. Mr. Cornelius Black is the surgeon. A Vaccine Institution was opened in 1814, the funds of which were incorporated with the Dispensary ; Mrs. Harding left the sum of £100 in

aid of the joint institutions, which is secured on the tolls of the Chesterfield canal. The Benevolent Society^ established 1826, affords pecuniary relief and religious instruction to the sick and poor. The District Visiting Society is supported wholly by members of the Established Church. The Wcsleyan Dorcas Society has existed since 1822, and in connec- tion with the Independent Chapel is a Lying-in-charity.

Alms Houses, in Salter gate and in the Church yard, are noticed with the charities.

I'lctces of Amusement. - The Theatre, a small brick building, situated in a yard at the bottom of the Market place, is the property of the Corporation.

The Alma Concert Hall is situated in Froggatts yard, Low Pavement, and is open every Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings. Mr. James Clayton Slack, pro-

The Baces are held on Whittington Common, about a mile from the town. They are well supported by the nobility and gentry in the neighbourhood, and are generally held about the end of September. A New Stand was erected in 1830.

Assemblies are occasionally held at the Angel Inn.

Baths, erected by the Corporation, in 1825-6, are situated \ mile from the town, and are conducted by Mr. Charles Kinder.

The North Derbyshire Agricultural Society, established 1819, hold their meetinga alternately at Chesterfield and Bakewell. Mr. Paul Bright, Sheffield, secretary and

County Court. - The New Small Debt Act, or County Courts. This important Act which superseded the Court of Eequests, came into operation on the 1 5th March, 1847. Chesterfield County Courtis held at the Town Hall, Market place, monthly, and comprises the following district, viz. - Barlow (Great,) Bolehill, Moor Hall, Wilday Green, Barlow (Little) Bolsover, Bolsover Woodhouso, Oxcroft, Stanfree, Whaley, Brampton, Ashgate, Brampton Moor, Cutthorpe, Eastmoor, Freebirch, Hen Park, Holymoorside, Loads, Loads- head, New Brampton, Overgreen, Pratt Hall, Biddings, Watshelf, Brimington Common, "Wheeldon Mill, Calow, Chesterfield, Clay Lane, Clay Cross, Danesmoor, Holmegate, New Market, Coal Aston, Dronfield, Cowley, Hill Top, Mickley, Stubley, Summerwood, Wood- house, Eckington, Bolehill, Ford, High Lane, Marsh Lane, Mosborough, Mosborough Moor, Kenishaw, Ridgway, Spinkhill, Troway, White Lane, Hasland, Corbriggs, Grass- moor, Heath, Holmesfield, Cartledge, Lydgate, Millthorpe, Unthank, Killamarsh, Church Town, Forge, Gander Lane, Nethergreen, Netherthorpe, Thorpe (Upper,) Thorpe West, Nevvbold, Dunstan, Littlemoor, Newbold moor, Stonegravels, North Wingfieldj Lings, Williamthorpe, Staveley, Devonshire Terrace, Hague Lane, Hollinwood Common, Inkersall, Marsden moor, Middle Handley, Thorpe (Nether,) Norbriggs, Railway Terracej Speedwell Terrace, Woodthorpe, West Handley, Sutton-cum-Duckmanton, Far Duck- manton, Temple Normanton, Tapton, Tupton, Unstonc, Apperknowle, Hundall, Walton, Slatepit Dale, Woodthorpe by Tupton, Wingerworth, Whittington, Sheepbridge, Whit- tington Moor. J. T. Cantrell, Esq., Judge ^ William Waller, Esq., New Square, Chester- field, and Wm. Wake, Esq., Sheffield, Registrars j Mr. Charles North, High Bailiff ; and Mr. Francis A. Hatton, Broker.

The Municipal Hall is situated in South street, and is a largo neat stone building, erected 1849, by the Corporation. Petty Sessions for the borough are held every other

Tlie Toicn Hall, under which is the borough gaol, for debtors, is a large stone building in the Market place. It was built about 1/90, by the late Duke of Devonshire. The summer Quarter Sessions, and a Petty Session every second and fourth Monday are held in it.

Savings' Banli, Burlington street, was established 1816, and in November, 1855, had deposits amounting to £,bQ,Qbb, with '2093 depositors, of whom the respective balances of

number of depositors, 1 1 are Charitable and 10 Friendly Societies. Mr. Peter Redfern, actiiar)^ The bank is open on Saturday, from 2 to 4 o'clock, and on Monday evenings, from 7 to 8 o'clock. The Penny Bank is open from 6 to 8 o'clock on Saturday evening. The Stamp Office is at Mrs. Ann "Walton's, Low Pavement.

The Water Works and Gas Light Company^ established in 1826, with a capital of new shares. The Gas Works, situated in Port House lane, have been recently enlarged, and contain two gasometers, capable of holding 120,000 cubic feet of gas, and 40 retorts. The Water Works consisted originally of only one small reservoir, at the top of Pot House lane ; during the past year two additional reservoirs have'^been made, occupying together about 10| acres of land. TYiej are situated in the township of Newbold, one on the Holme brook, and the other in Nev/bold Back lane, on an elevation equal to the highest building in the town. Mr. Wm. Machin, managing clerk.

The Chesterfield Foor Law Union. - A commodious Union House was erected in 1839, in a healthy situation on the Newbold road. It is built of brick, at a coi^of £10,000, and will accommodate 300 paupers. The present number in the house is 122. The Guardians meet at the board room every Saturday, at 10.30 a.m. The Union comprises 34 parishes, and embraces an area of 141 square miles, with 94,825 acres of land, and a population of 45,795 souls ; the places comprised in the Union arc Ashover, Barlow Great, Barlow Little, Bolsover, Brackenfield, Brampton, Brimington, Calow, Chesterfield, Clay Lane, Coal Aston, Dronfield, Eckington, Hasland, Heath, Holmesfield, Killamarsh, Morton, Newbold and Dunstan, North AVingfield, Pilsley, Shirland and Higham, Staveley, Stretton, Sutton, Tapton, Temple Normanton, Tupton, Unstone, Walton, Wessington, Whittington, Wingerworth, and Woodthorpe. There are 49 Guardians, 9 of which are ex officio, and 9 Medical Districts. John Lee, Esq., is Chairman ; Rev. Alexander Poole, Chaplain; Mr. George Haslehurst, Clerk and Superintendent Begistrar ; J. H. Ramsden, Ma.rter, and Ann Fawcett, Matron ; Mr. Wheelhouse, Eckington, is Relieving Officer for the North District, and Mr. Thomas Shaw, Chesterfield, for the South district. The Registrars for Births and Deaths, are Robert Shaw, Chesterfield ; John J. Hayes, Eckington; John Bassett, Ashover ; William Siddall, Dronfield, and Olinthus Stevenson, Bolsover. Robert Shaw and Charles North, Chesterfield, are Registrars of Marriages.

The Chesterfield Burial Board, formed under the Acts of Parliament of 15th and of land for a Cemetery, at Spital, consisting of Ga. 3ii. 30p., of which 3a. Or. iOp. will be reserved for future requirements. The grounds have been laid out under the superintendence of Mr. Wm. Husband ; and the chapels of which there are two, are under one roof, but quite distinct from each other. They are also exactly the same in size, while without marring the harmony of the whole, an individual character is given to each, by adopting the earlier and the later periods of the geometric style, - the former being that in which the Dissenter's cliapsl has been designed, and the latter that of the Church. The grouping of which with the Lodge has been carefully considered, so that with the promi- nent position it holds, it will be a pleasing object, either viewed from the grounds them- selves or from a distance. The Spire, forming the entrance to the Episcopal chapel, is furnished with a bell, and the Lodge contains board room, with distinct entrance, as well as a door of communication with the registrar's house. The Reception, or Bead house, is a picturesque object, placed in a retired part of the groimd, on the line between the consecrated and unconsecrated portions. The grounds are enclosed with a stone wall and iron railing towards the lane and main road, tressed piers flank the main approaches, and the roadways are closed by wrought-iron gates of corresponding design to the build- ings. The total outlay is about £G,000, the repayment of which is spread over a term of

twenty years. Robt. Waller, Esq., is clerk to the Ihirial Boards and Messrs. Coatos and Burrowes were the contractors for the buildings.

Chesterfield Canal. - An Act of Parliament was obtained in 1770, for making this Canal, which was completed in 1777, the line having been surveyed by the celebrated James Brindley. By this act the committee were empowered to raise £100,000 in £100 shares, and to borrow £50,000 on mortgage of the tolls. The canal is 46 miles in length, and commences in the tideway of the river Trent, at West Stock with, 4 miles N.N.W. from Gainsborough, and terminates near the N.E. extremity of Chesterfield, in Newbold township, where extensive wharfs and warehouses have been erected. It runs N. by E. from Chesterfield, following the vale of the Rother, crossing the parishes of Staveley, Barlborough and Isallamarsh, and a small portion of Yorkshire, enters Notting- shire near Shireoaks. There are fly boats to Gainsborough, Stockwith, and all parts coastwise. Thos. Elliott, wharfinger, Canal wharf, Sheffield road.

At the Norman survey, Chesterfield was only a baliwic, belonging to the manor of Newbold, where it is named Cestrefield, but there seems to have been a castle here previous to this period. It is highly probable that the Roman road from Derby to York passed through this place, and that there was a station or encampment here. Though at the Norman conquest it was a place of small note and consequence, yet it must very soon afterwards have increased in size and importance. There was certainly a church here in the eleventh century, for William Rufus gave the Church of Chesterfield to the Cathe- dral Church of Lincoln. In the reign of King John, the town was incorporated in favour of William de Briwere or Bruere. He obtained from his sovereign, in the sixth year of his reign, a grant in fee farm of the manor of Chesterfield, with Brim- nington and Whittington, and of the soak and vrapentake of S,carsdale, paying yearly seventy-nine pounds. By this grant, the same liberties were obtained as were enjoyed by the inhabitants of Nottingham ; likewise a fair during eight days, beginning at the Exaltation of the Cross, and two weekly markets, on Tuesday and Satur- day. Baldwin Wake, by marrying the daughter of Briwere, obtained possession of the manor of Chesterfield. It afterwards became the property of the Plantagenets, Earls of Kent. In 1386 it was possessed by Sir Thomas Holland, and in 1443 belonged to U iHiam Neville. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth, George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, was lord of the manor. It afterwards, by purchase, came into the possession of William, Earl of Newcastle, and descended, in the same manner as Bolsover, to the Duke of Portland ; the manor of Chesterfield and the hundred of Scarsdale were exchanged by him, in 1792, with the late Duke of Devonshire, for some estates in Nottinghamshire. In one of the windows of the Church are the arms of Edward Plantagenet and Margaret Wake, impaled together, this shews that it was built as early as the close of the thirteenth century. In the reign of Henry III. the Church was made use of as a place of refuge by Robert Ferrers, the last Earl of Derby. It is said that as soon as this nobleman arrived at man's estate, he joined the rebellions barons against the King ; with a view of quelling this insurrection, Henry, the eldest son of the King of Almaine, marched against them with a powerful army, and at Chesterfield, after a sharp conflict, in which many were slain, routed all his forces. The Earl escaped, and was at first concealed in the church under some bags of wool, but by the treachery of a woman was ere long discovered and carried prisoner to Londcm, where he was confined three years, and being unable to pay a large fine, levied upon him, was deprived of his estate and Earldom. It appears from the register of the church, that the Earl of Newcastle was at Chesterfield with his forces, in May, 1643, and again in Decem- ber, in the same year. It is not improbable that at one of these times he engaged the forces of the Parliament. But it is certain that during the civil wars he obtained a victory over them at this place.

The Glorious Revolution of 1688 is said to have owed its origin to the meeting of a few friends to liberty and the Protestant religion on Whittington Moor, near Chester- field, irhea Kin^ Jameg II. waa endoftrouring to assume arbitary power, and to re-establish

Popery in tliis kingdom. In the early part of 1688, a few noblemen met by appointment on the moor, for the express purpose of devising means for rescuing their country from the double slavery with which it was threatened, amongst whom were the Duke of Devonshire tl)e Earl of Danby, Lord Delamerc, and John Darcy, son of the Earl of Ilqlderness. In consequence of a shower of rain they adjourned to the village of Whittington, and finished their consultations at a public house called the "Cock and Magpie," v/hich acquired from this circumstance the name of Hevolution House, and the small room in which these distinguished guests held their conference, the j dot ting pari our. This house is still standiog and the arm chair in which the Duke of Devonshire sat forms a part of its furniture. On November 5th, 1783, the csntenarj'- of the revolution was celebrated at Chesterfield and Whittington vv^ith great magnificence.

King John granted to "William de Briwere that Chesterfield should be a free borough and enjoy the same liberties as the boroughs of Derby and Nottingham. This Charter was fully confirmed by Heury III. and enlarged by succeeding monarchs; but it does not appear that members of parliament were ever returned for the borough. The town, at an early period, was remarkable for trade, for with the charter granted by Edward I. was a guild of merchants, with all the privileges appertaining thereto. In 1 594 Elizabeth granted a new charter to the town, under which the corporate body consisted of a Mayor, 6 Alder- men, 6 Brethren, and 12 common Councilmen or "capital Burgesses, with a town clerk and other officers. Since the Municipal Act, which passed 9th September, 1833, the borough has been governed by a Mayor, 4 Aldermen, and 12 Councillors. A town Clerk, two Auditors, and two Assessors are elected as appendages. It is not divided into wards.

Mayor, - ^William Drabble, Esq.

Magistrates, - ^William Drabble and William Hewitt, Esqs.

John Walker, Esq ,

John Gregory Cottingham, Esq.,

William Drabble, Esq., AVilliam Hewitt, Esq.

John Short, William Edwin Dutton, Thomas Jones, James Ball White, James Wright, Clay Jackson, John Cutts, James Lingard, John Holland, Joseph Eyre, John Marsden, and Charles Stanhope Burke Busby.

Toicn Clerk and ClerJt to the Magistrates, - William Waller, Esq.

Assessors, - William Claughton and Josiah Bradbury Robinson.

Auditors, - John Wood and Richard Alsop

JJeacl Constable and Billet Master, - John Lambert.

Keeper of Prison and Inspector of Weights and Measures, - James Radford.

Town Crier, - Richard Kirk.

Pinder, - Robert Pearce.

Trade. - The canal from Chesterfield to the river Trent, added much to the importance of the town, by opening a cheap transit to the east for the lead, iron, and earthenware produced in the vicinity. The Midland railway has now placed it in a very favourable position, opening communications for its iron, coal, and lead, and it may now be considered as the centre of an extensive and flourishing trade. This district is particularly noted for the manufacture of brown earthenware and stoneware bottle^-, known all over the kingdom by the name of Chest orfi eld ware. The trade is principally carried on in Brampton? Newbold, Walton, and Whittington Moor all within 2 miles of Chesterfield, and gives employment to a considerable number of hands. In the town is a sillc mill, several hat manufacturers, two extonsiye laoe manufaoturors, and one for ginghams and cheeks ; frame-

work-lcnitting is also carried on to some e:^tent ; and Mr. Joscpli Jolinson, of West Bars, has a large herring curing establishment, the only one in the county.

The Market, held on Saturday, is well supplied with corn, cattle, and provisions of every sort. The market place is spacious, and situate on a declivity nearly in the centre of the town. It has seven annual fairs, viz., January 27, February 28, first Saturday in April, May 4Lh, July 4th, (for cattle, wool, &c.^, September 2c5th, and November 25th, the last of which is a statute fair for hiring servants and is toll free.

The Chcstc.rjield Market Company was formed in 1853, for the purpose of providing a suitable building for the accommodation of the numerous merchants, factors, and farmers who are in the usual habit of attending this market, and also to supply a deficiency wdiich has long been felt, in the want of a suite of rooms applicable for all the requirements of this large and improving district, and commensurate with the importance and prosperity of this flourishing town. The Company was incorporated by Act of Parliament, 17 and 18 the extent of one-third their capital, and commenced the present Marliet Hall, which stands about the centre of the Market-place, (an open area of about three acres,) in July, 1805 ; it is a noble brick buildhig in the Roman Italian style, with stone cornice, quoins, and window dressings, 55 yards long, and 30 feet wide, including a Corn Exchange at the western end, occupying an area of 290 square feet, covered with glass ; a covered Market in the centre, 25 feet high, and occupying 450 square feet, which is surrounded on the north, south, and cast sides by shop?, above which, on the south side are private offices, and on the north and east is the Fublic Boom and Session Court, which is 70 feet long, 3i feet 9 inches wide, and 27 feet in height. This noble room is lighted by five large windows, each 16 feet by 6 feet, and two smaller ones ; the ceiling is coved, and so arranged as specially to adapt it for musical purposes, and in an evening will be lighted by three powerful sun-burner lights, containing each about 20 jets of gas. The other accommodation provided in this splendid building are rooms set apart respectively for a Town Library, Mechanics' Insti- tution, magistrates, and billiards, each 22 feet 6 inches square, and 14 feet high. The east front of the building is ornamented with a tower, 100 feet high, furnished with a clock and bell, and at the south-west angle of the building is a convenient residence for the keeper. The total cost of the building, including the requisite internal fittings, was about £8,000. Messrs. Davics and Tew, of Chesterfield, v/cre the architects, on v/hom it reflects great credit. Messrs. Shipton and Hallew ell, are the solicitors to the Company ; and Mr. Geo. Wallis, secretary.

Bivers. - The river Ibber or Hipper is chiefly composed of the Somershall brook, which rises in the m.ountainous districts of Holy Moor Side, and is increased by various rivulets which flow from the moorlands that enclose its spring through a part of Walton to Eramplon, and after receiving the Holme or Linacre water, it assumes the name of Hipper, runs close by the south side of the town, and has its confluence with the Bother on the south-east. The liver Rother is said to have had lis name from Rud-whr (red water), probably from its being impregnated with iron in some parts of its channel ; it rises from Rother spring, in the village of Pilslcy, and then runs to Padley Wood, by North Wingfield church, and joins the Hipper at Chesterfield ; it then takes a north-easterly direction, and enters Yorkshire between KUlamarsh and Beighton, and passing Rotherham, has its conflu- ence with the Don.

Charities. - The Grammar School was established under the -authority of a charter of Queen Elizabeth, and vested in the mayor, aldermen, brethren, and capital burgesses. A school-house, garden, and about five acres of land, are scipposed to have been appropriated at the time of the foundation to the use of the master. These premises are of the estimated value of £45 per annum, subject to a chief rent of £2 lOs. The school is also endowed with an annual sum of £13 63. 8d., fr,)m the bequest of Godfrey Foljambc; Liugard's gift,

are also five pews on the organ loft of the parish church, appropriated to the use of the master and scholars, all of which are now let. The head master is appointed by the mayor and aldermen, subject to the approval of the Archbishop of York and the lord of the manor of Norton, in the latter of whom is vested the appointment of under master. Instruction is confined to Latin and Greek, and it was formerly a school of some reputation ; however, in 1794 the scholars were reduced to nine, and since that period have scarcely even exceeded seven, and for some time there was no boy in the school, which may in a great measure bo atti-ibuted to the want of sufficient attention on the part of the master, whose attendance seldom exceeded an hour and a half in the day. A suit in chancery was instituted in the year 1829, against the corporation, as trustees of the school; and in July, 1839, a decree of the court was obtained, by which the sum of £719 15s. 7d. was ordered to be paid to the school estate by the corporation into the Court of Chancery, with interest at 4 per cent, per