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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Barton Blount, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.41 |
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| BARTON BLOUNT is a small agricultural parish
and village, 4 miles north-west from Tutbury station on the North
Staffordshire railway, 8 east from Uttoxeter, and 8½ south-east
from Ashborne, in the Western division of the county, hundred of Appletree,
petty sessional division of Sudbury, union and county court district
of Burton-upon-Trent, rural deanery of Longford, archdeaconry of Derby
and diocese of Southwell. The church of St. Chad is a very small but
ancient building of stone, mantled with ivy and consisting of chancel
and nave : there are six stained windows in memory of the Bradshaw
family : and the church affords 60 sittings. The register dates from
the year 1558 for all entries. The living is a rectory, gross yearly
value £76, including 20 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Rev.
William Bradshaw M.A. vicar of Smalley, and held since 1887 by the
Rev. Nicholas Isaac Hill Fyson M.A. of Worcester College, Oxford,
who is also curate-in-charge of and resides at Boylestone. Miss Frances
Bradshaw, who is lady of the manor and chief landowner, has a fine
seat here, surrounded by plantations, and now occupied by Arthur Francis
Cooper esq. The soil is a strong loam; subsoil, clay. The chief crops
are wheat, beans, oats and mangold. The area is 1,148A. 3R. 30P. ;
rateable value, £ 1,902 ; the population in 1881 was 58. Parish Clerk, George Copestake. Letters through Derby general office, the nearest money order office, arrive at 8 a.m. Tutbury is the nearest telegraph office Church Broughton is the nearest post & money order office & letter box; letters dispatched 6.40 p.m The children of this parish attend the school at Church Broughton Bradshaw Miss Cooper Arthur Fras. Barton Blount manor Copestake George, farmer, Gosty fields Gamble Joseph, farmer, Lodge hill Mort Charles, farmer, Barton park Francis, farmer, Barton house White William, farmer, Barton fields [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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