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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Edlaston, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - pp. 201-2 |
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| EDLASTON (mentioned
in Domesday book as "Edolveston") is a parish and village,
delightfully situated 2½ miles south from Ashborne, 1½
south-east from Clifton station on the Churnet Valley section of the
North Staffordshire railway, and 150 from London, in the Western division
of the county, Ashborne union, petty sessional division and county
court district, Appletree hundred, rural deanery of Ashborne, archdeaconry
of Derby and diocese of Southwell. The church of St. James is a simple
structure, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a square wooden
turret containing 2 bells, one of which is an ancient sanctus bell,
the other dating from 1670 : the masonry generally seems to be of
the 14th century, but the windows and the massive tie-beams of the
roof are much later : the church was repaired in 1682 and 1840, and
in I870 was restored and reseated : the chancel roof was repaired
and the east window renewed, the cost being defrayed by the Rt. Rev.
Edmund Hobhouse D.D. some time Bishop of Nelson, N. Z. and then rector
: the
church plate dates from 1734 : in the churchyard is a grand old yew
tree, and in the adjacent rectory garden may be seen the upper part
of the original font, rejected for one of smaller dimensions by the
Bishop's predecessor : there are 137 sittings. The register dates
from the year 1573, and is nearly perfect from that date forwards.
The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £134, net.
yearly value £177, including 41½ acres of glebe with
residence, In the gift of the Bishop of Southwell, and held since
1873 by the Rev. William Sandford B.A. of Clare College, Cambridge.
There is a Wesleyan Methodist chapel at Wyaston. In 1869 a public
well was sunk and a covering placed over it, at the sole expense of
the late Mrs. Alderson, of Wyaston Grove, who also left by will in
1881 £12 yearly to be distributed to the poor in coals at Christmas.
There are various small charities for the benefit of the poor. J.
Harrison esq. of Snelston, lord of the manor, and Sir Andrew Barclay
Walker bart. of Osmaston manor, are chief landowners. The soil is
light and stony; subsoil, clay. The land is kept chiefly in pasture
for dairy produce. The area is 1,379 acres; rateable value £2,200;
the population in 1881 was 208. WYASTON is a hamlet, half a mile north of the church. Parish Clerk, James Kirkland. WALL LETTER BOX is cleared at 4.30 p.m. Letters through Ashborne, the nearest money order & telegraph office, arrive at 9 a.m Parochial School (mixed), erected in 1843, for about 40 children average attendance about 29 ; Miss Ada Jackson, mistress Edlaston. Sandford Rev. William B.A. Rectory COMMERCIAL. Blood John, farmer, New Buildings farm Chadfield George, farmer Evans Francis, farmer Gadsby Alice (Mrs.), farmer Gadsby Thomas, farmer Kirkland James, cowkeeper Kirkland William, cow keeper Redshaw, William, farmer Threadgold Frederick, farmer Wallis Henry Arthur, New Inn P.H Wigley John, farmer, Coppice farm Wigley John, jun. farmer, Colycroft Yeomans George, farmer Wyaston. Buxton Miss COMMERCIAL. Byatt Joseph, farmer, The Grange Byatt William, farmer Copestake John, farmer & assistant overseer, The Firs Elliott John, farmer Gadsby Edward, farmer Gadsby John, shopkeeper Kent Thomas, farmer, Wyaston house Moorcroft John, shopkeeper Smith John, farmer [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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