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| Aston-upon-Trent, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p. 32 |
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| ASTON-UPON -TRENT is a parish and large village
6 miles south-east from Derby, 132 from London,1 north from Weston
station, on the Trent and Melbourne branch and south from Borrowash
station on the main lute of the Midland railway, in the Southern division
of the county, hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, union
of Shardlow, petty sessional division and county court district
of Derby, rural deanery of Melbourne, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese
of Southwell. The church of All Saints is a building of local stone,
consisting of chancel with north aisle or chapel, clerestoried nave
of three bays, aisles, north and south porches and an embattled western
tower with pinnacles containing a clock and 5 bells; the first three
are dated respectively 1590, 1594 and 1661 ; the remainder were added,
one in 1847 and the tenor in 1873 : a curious Saxon cross built into
the exterior of the west end of the south aisle : the lower half of
the tower is Late Norman, with the exception of one Transition window
of the time of Henry II. : the arcades of the nave and those of the
chancel aisle, consisting of two arches, exhibit progressive stages
of the Early English period : of the same style is the font, consisting
of a massive octagonal basin on a large circular pillar with four
small detached shafts : the west window in the north aisle and those
of the south aisle are Early Decorated, one near the east end having
curious ogee headed canopies with interesting carved bosses in the
jambs : the three south windows of the chancel are Early Perpendicular
: the other windows in the north aisle, the clerestory and the upper
stage of the tower, which is embattled and pinnacled, are of a later
Perpendicular style : there is a piscina, and the outline of a leper
window on the south side of the chancel : in the north aisle of the
nave is an altar tomb of alabaster, with the recumbent figures of
a man and his wife hand in hand, in the costume of the first half
of the 15th century ; and there are numerous mural tablets, chiefly
to the Holden and Shuttleworth families and dating from the 17th century
to the present time : the east window and seven others are stained
: the reredos and pulpit, or Devonshire marble, are beautiful specimen
of modern stonework in the Decorated style and have canopied arches
with figures in full relief the church was restored in 1848 and 1863
and the chancel in 1873 by the late E. A. Holden esq. and the organ
was enlarged in March, 1881 : there are 320 sittings. The register
dates from the year 1667. The living is a rectory, net yearly value
£1,200, with residence and 6 acres of glebe, in the gift of
Edward Charles Shuttleworth Holden esq. J.P. and held since 1869 by
the Rev. James Shuttleworth Holden M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford,
and rural dean of Melbourne. There is a Wesleyan chapel here, built
in 1820. The charities amount to about £25 yearly. Messrs. Pegg
and Co. of Derby, have large gypsum pits here. At the Dissolution,
the manor and advowson, being a part of the Derbyshire possessions
of St. Werburgh's Abbey, were granted to the Bishop of Chester : a
grant of Queen Elizabeth transferred them to Henry Sacheverelle :
on the accession of James I. they were granted to Charles Paget, on
whose attainder, ten years later, they passed into the hands of the
Roper family, from whom they were purchased in 1649 by the ancestors
of the present proprietors. Aston Hall, the seat of the Holden family,
is a mansion of brick, standing in extensive grounds of 8 acres and
overlooking the vale of the Trent. Edward Charles Shuttleworth Holden
esq. J.P. who is lord of the manor, Mrs. Sutton and the Earl of Harrington
are the principal landowners. The soil is loamy ; subsoil, gravel
and stone. The chief crops are oats, wheat and barley, but there is
a good portion of meadow land. The area is 1,763 acres 27 perches
; rateable value, £4,756 ; the population in 1881 was 568. Parish Clerk, Francis Porter. POST OFFICE.-Thomas Dolman, postmaster. Letters from Derby arrive at 5.20 a.m. ; dispatched at 8.10 p.m. ; sundays dispatched at 6.10 p. m. The nearest money order office is at Shardlow & telegraph office at Weston-on-Trent railway station. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid National School (mixed), erected in 1845, to hold 160 ; average attendance, 120 ; Edwin Wall, master CARRIER TO DERBY.-Geo. Bull, from his house, tues. & fri Bowles Charles Eyre B Holden Edward Chas. Shuttleworth J.P. Holden Rev. James Shuttleworth M.A. Ludlow Joseph Osborne William Pringle Reginald, Aston hall Soresby Walter James, The Mount COMMERCIAL. Astle Charles, wheelwright Aston Coffee & Recreation Rooms (Mrs. Elizabeth Clementson, manageress) Bull George, carrier & coal merchant Burton Frederick, farmer Clementson Elizbth. (Mrs.), manageress to Aston coffee & recreation rooms Fielding William, blacksmith Fletcher Robert, market gardener, Moor side Forman Ralph, farmer & manager for Messrs. Pegg & Co Gregory Catherine (Mrs.), farmer Halladay Francis, builder Holbrook John, beer retailer Holte Thomas & Son, butchers Holmes James, farmer, Marsh flat Hurd William, farmer Husband John, farmer Joynes Alfred, tailor Leadbetter Joseph, lock keeper Ludlow Francis, white Hart P.H. & maltster Marshall Joseph, farmer Martyn Thomas, wheelwright Pegg & Co. plaster merchants (Ralph Forman, manager) Radford Rd. farmr. Rectory & Hall farms Reed George, grocer & baker Rice George, shopkeeper Riley Philip, farmer Slater Emma (Mrs.), dress maker Slater Robert, shoe maker Stenson George Morley, farmer Stevenson John, farmer Turner Joseph, farmer Wild Thos. market gardener, Moor side [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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