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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Heage (with Ambergate), Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.227 |
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HEAGE (or HIGH EDGE) is a large township, with a scattered
population, and in 1844 was formed into a parish from the civil parish
of Duffield and made a rectory 1867 : it is on the Chesterfield road,
2 miles north-east from Belper, 1½ east from Ambergate station
and 143½ from London, in the Mid division of the county, Appletree
hundred, Belper union and petty sessional division, Belper and Ilkeston
county court district, rural deanery of Duffield, archdeaconry of
Derby and diocese of Southwell. Since 1863 the township has been under
the management of a local board of six members. The river Amber flows
along the northern boundary of the parish and joins the Derwent at
Ambergate. The Cromford canal also passes through. The church of St.
Luke, formerly a chapel of ease to Duffield, consists of chancel,
transeptal nave, south porch and a turret on the north side, containing
one bell, and was enlarged and repaired in 1836 : in the chancel are
two stained windows, erected in 1881 by F. N. Smith esq. to his father
and his wife: there are 450 sittings, 250 being free : half an acre
of land was added to the churchyard in 1881. The register dates from
the year 1819 for baptisms and 1847 for marriages and burials. The
living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £52, net yearly
value £178, including 4 acres of glebe, with residence, in the
gift of the vicar of Duffield, and held since 1888 by the Rev. George
Arthur Tindall B.A. of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge. A Mission
church is now (1890) being erected at Ambergate. There are Wesleyan,
Primitive and Reform Methodist and the Free Methodist chapels here.
A charity of £7 5s. yearly, left in 1817 by the Rev. F. Gisborne,
some time vicar of Staveley, is distributed in cloth and flannel to
the poor. Holland's charity of £6, left in 1744, is divided
between the rector (who receives £4) and the poor who attend
Heage church, the remaining £2 being expended in bread. Lieut.-Col.
Albert Frederic Hurt, of Alderwasley Hall, is lord of the manor and
Lord Belper and co-proprietors, Herbert Strutt esq. and F. N. Smith
esq. are the principal landowners. The soil is clayey. The chief crops
are corn and grass. The area in acres is 2,278; rateable value, £7,419
; the population in 1881 was 2,405. CACKLETON, a quarter of a mile south; TOADMORE and AMBERGATE, 1½ miles west-north-west ; BOOTHGATE, 1 mile south and NETHER HEAGE, half a mile west, are hamlets. AMBERGATE is the junction station on the Midland railway for Derby and the Matlock, Buxton, Manchester and Liverpool and Mansfield, Worksop and Retford lines. Sexton, Herbert Street. POST & M. O. 0., S. B. Annuity & Insurance Office.-Miss Rebecca Alton, receiver. Letters arrive from Belper at 9.15 a.m. ; dispatched at 6.15 p.m. Ripley is the nearest telegraph office POST & M. O. 0., S. B. Annuity & Insurance Office, Ambergate.-Isaac Adams, receiver. Letters are received from Derby by mail cart; arrive at 5.26 a.m. & 4.45 p.m.; dispatched at 10.45 a.m. & 7.30 p.m. ; sundays, 7.20 p.m. The telegraph office is at the railway station WALL LETTER BOX, Buckland Hollow, cleared 6 p.m. week days only LOCAL BOARD. Meeting 1st friday in the month at National school room at 7 p.m. Clerk, John Harlow, Ripley road Treasurer, W. H. Winterborne, Belper Medical Officer of Health, George Garnham, Ripley Surveyor, Inspector of Nuisances & Collector, John Barlow, Ripley road SCHOOLS :- A School Board of 5 members was formed in 1875; John Barlow, Ripley road, clerk to the board; Thomas Swift, Black Boy, attendance officer Board, Over Heage (mixed & infants), built in 1877, for 144 children; average attendance, 144 ; Josiah Huss, master ; Miss Harriet Allsop, infants' mistress Board, Nether Heage (mixed & infants), erected in 1871, for 75 boys & girls & 50 infants ; average attendance, 75 boys & girls & 50 infants ; Alfred Watherston, master ; Miss Ada. Figgins, infants' mistress Endowed, for 28 boys; the school will hold 120 ; average attendance, 64 ; endowed in 1705 by George Storer with a farm, now producing an average yearly rent of £40, £28 of which is paid to the master for teaching as many children free; the surplus, after paying farm expenses, is applied to the apprenticing of a boy from the village; John Herbert Barnes, master National, erected in 1842, for 146 girls & infants; average attendance, 116 ; Miss Martha Wilson, mistress; Miss Esther Jebb, infants' mistress Railway Station, Ambergate, Chas. Grundy, station master Heage. Cox John, Ridgway Ediss George Newell, Nether Heage Hawkins Mrs. Fir cottage, Nether Heage Shore Mrs. Tower house, Nether Heage Tindall Rev. George Arthur B.A.Rectory COMMERCIAL. Allsop Sml. jun. farmer, Morley Park farm Allsop Thomas, farmer, Morley park Alton George, beer retailer, Cackleton Alton John, farmer, Chapel farm Alton Joseph, farmer, Ripley road Alton Sarah (Mrs.), farmer & maltster, Nether Heage Barlow John, collector of poor rates & assessed taxes, & clerk, collector & inspector of nuisances & surveyor to local board, & clerk to the school board, Ripley road Bates George, grocer, draper & farmer Beardmore Vincent, shopkeeper Beardmore Jabez, joiner Heighton Joseph, farmer, Nether Heage Bilbie Joseph, Green Man P.H Bowmer Joseph, farmer, Nether Heage Bull Bridge Brick Co. Limited (Samuel Hall, sec ) Clark George, farmer, Strarehim valley Clark Samuel, Black Horse P.H & farmer Clarke John, White Hart P.H & farmer Cooper Thomas, shopkpr. Nether Heage Farnsworth John & William, cow keepers Fox John, farmer Gaunt Robert, farmer, Waterloo Hawkins Samuel, farmer, & registrar of births & deaths, Common Heath Edmund, farmer, Morley park Herrett Alfred, butcher Hodgkinson Joseph, farmer Hunt Peter, farmer, Lower Hartshay Johnson Joseph, blacksmith & shopkeepr Jones & Daniels, farmers, Prospect farm Kemp Matthew, grocer & farmer Key William, farmer Litchfield James, farmer, Nether Heage Marsh Robert, butcher Morrell Joseph, jun. farmer, Crow trees Payne Joseph, mason, Valley farm Purdy Benjamin, butcher Richards James, greengrocer, New rd Riley Charles, boot maker Rogers Jonah, farmer Rowland Joshua, blacksmith Severn Dorothy (Mrs.), grocer & draper Shore Joseph & Enoch, millers (steam, water & wind) & farmers Sims John, farmer, Morley park Sims Joseph, farmer, West bank Smith Samuel, bootmaker, Nether Heage Stone Edward, shopkeeper Stone Hiram, Spanker P.H Stone Wm. H. shopkeeper, Nether Heage Swift Samuel, shopkeeper, Cackleton Thompson Jn. Wm. farmer, Mor!ey park Wain William, New inn Wainwright Samuel, shopkeeper Walker Samuel, farmer, Nether Heage Whawell Sophia (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Nether Heage Whawell William Joseph, Black Boy P.H White George, farmer, Ridgeway Whysall William, shopkeeper Ambergate. Bird Richard, superintendent engineer, Midland railway Buxton Frederick, Ridgway house Winson Mrs. Bull bridge COMMERCIAL. Adams Isaac, grocer, Post office Alton Winfield, Hurt Arms hotel Bryan Samuel, shopkeeper Clarke John, White House P.H Elliott Robert, grocer GLOSSOP JOSEPH, brush & cabinet turner, english & foreign timber & general builders' merchant & quarry owner, Saw mills Glossop Tom Allison, insur. agt. West view Grundy Charles, station master Key German, shopkeeper Radford Joseph, miller (water) Smith William, farmer, Lawn farm Wilmot Robert Hay, farmer Worrall Joshua, butcher Wragg George, grazier, Ridgway [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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