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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Atlow, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - pp.32-33 |
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ATLOW is a parish consisting of scattered farm houses and cottages,
between the roads from Ashborne to Belper and Ashborne to Wirksworth,
4 miles north-east from Ashborne station on the Churnet Valley section
of the North Staffordshire railway, 5 south-west from Wirksworth,
12 north-west from Derby and 145 from London, in the Western division
of the county, Appletree hundred, Ashborne union, petty sessional
division and county court district, rural deanery of Ashborne, Derby
archdeaconry and Southwell diocese: the church of SS. Philip and James,
built on a plot of land lying between the old church of All Saints
and the road called Church lane, and consecrated by Bishop Selwyn,
May, 1874, is a building of stone in the Early English style, and
consists of chancel, nave, south porch and a western turret containing
the bell from the pre-existing church, bearing a monogram and the
date 1595: in the south wall is a piscina : the easternmost window
in the north wall of the chancel is continued downwards, and serves
as a credence table: there are sittings for 120 persons. The earliest
register is a small quarto book of parchment, containing entries of
baptisms and burials from the year 1685, and of marriages from 1698,
"truly extracted from an old and ruinous paper register by W.
Wilson, curate, 1762." The living was constituted a rectory by
the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in 1866 ; average tithe rent-charge,
£89 ; net yearly value £130, including 15 acres of glebe,
with residence, in the gift of H. C. Okeover esq. and held since 1885
by the Rev. James Sheldon. From the Gisborne Charity, left 7th May,
1818, by the Rev. Francis Gisborne, sometime rector of Staveley, the
poor receive £6 10s. a year in clothing: the Spencer charity
of £5, left in 1742, has been lost : sum, of £10 from
the Okeover charity left in 1878 and £10 from the Ironmongers
Company are applied to the school. Limestone and Ironstone are very
abundant, and it is believed that a bed of coal underlies a great
portion of the parish. H. C. Okeover esq. J.P. of Okeover Hall, who
is lord of the manor, Messrs. Twigge, Melland, Grundy and T. Tomlinson
are chief landowners. The soil is clayey, loamy and limey; the subsoiI
is black spiel. The land is chiefly kept in pasture for dairy produce.
The area is 1,214 acres ; rateable value, £1,649 ; the population
jn 1881 was 138. Sexton, William Cooper. WALL LETTER Box in Rectory wall cleared at 3.30 p.m. week days only. Letters through Ashborne arrive about 9.30 a.m. Hognaston is the nearest money order office & Ashborne the nearest telegraph office National School (mixed), erected in 1863, for 60 children ; average attendance, 33; supported by subscription; Mr. William Frederick Walker, master: a Sunday school is also held here CARRIER.-Joseph Woolley to Derby, every fri. ; to Ashborne sat Sheldon Rev. James, Rectory COMMERCIAL. Booth John, farmer Burdis Thomas, farmer Coxon Mary (Mrs.), farmer & miller (water), Atlow mill Dale George Hy. Smith, farmer, Shays Fearn Josiah, farmer Hardy Allyen, farmer Heaton John, farmer Hill Robert, farmer Longden William, farmer Melland John, farmer, Atlow Wen Riley Thomas, farmer Tomlinson Thomas, farmer, Hall fields Twigge Geo. mining engineer, Moat ho Twigge John Geo. farmer, Atlow moat Walker William Frederick, schoolmastr Woolley Joseph, carrier & cowkeeper [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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