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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Kilburne, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.243 |
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KILBURNE is a township and village in the parish of Horsley, on
the Derby and Alfreton road, with a station on the Ripley branch of
the Midland railway, 3 miles south-east from Belper, 3 north-east
from Duffield, 7 north-east from Derby and 133 from London, in the
Ilkeston division of the county, hundred of Morleston and Litchurch,
Smalley petty sessional division, Belper union and Belper and Ilkeston
county court district. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels and
Sunday schools. Kilburne colliery, owned by a limited company, is
situated near the village ; hosiery was formerly manufactured very
extensively. Adjoining the village is Kilburne Hall, the residence
of Col. Charles Denison Pedder J.P. a mansion in the Elizabethan style,
pleasantly situated in a park of 30 acres ; the grounds are beautifully
wooded and tastefully laid out, and contain many
ancient yew trees quaintly clipped in the Dutch style. R. S. W. Sitwell
esq. of Stainsby House, is lord of the manor. Henry Charles Vickers
Hunter esq. is the principal landowner. The soil is clay and marl;
subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley, and about
two-thirds pasture. The acreage is 875; rateable value, £3,862;
the population in 1881 was 1,457. POST, M. O. & T. O., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.- Henry Brown, receiver. Letters arrive from Derby at 5.30 a.m. ;. dispatched at 9.45 a.m. & 7.20 p.m Railway Station, Matthew Harvey, station master National School (girls & infants), erected in 1862, for 159 children; average attendance, 123 ; Miss Annie Raynes, mistress The boys of this place attend Horsley school Lloyd-Owen Edmund M.E., C.E Pedder Col. Charles Denison J.P. Kilburne hall Small George Small Thomas Henry, The Poplars Steer Frank Rowland, Rose cottage Woolley Joseph Henry J.P. Holly bank COMMERCIAL. Bailey James, shopkeeper Bakewell Mary Ann (Miss), grocer Brown Frederick Kerrey, farmer Brown Henry, shopkeeper, Post office Colledge Charles, haberdasher Cresswell Salome (Miss), dress maker Cresswell William, jun. butcher Davy John, Travellers' inn Fisher Alfred, beer retailer Gibson George, farmer Hall John, shopkeeper Heath William, farmer Hope Jsph. Hunter Arms P.H. & blcksmth Hudson Robert, Station hotel James Wm. Grand Turk inn, Derby rd Kerry Henry, cowkeeper Kilburne Colliery Limited (Edmund Lloyd-Owen M.E., C.E. manager; H. E. McLeod, sec.) ; London office, Sun court, Cornhill E C Langton George, farmer, Cinder hill Langton George, jun. butcher, Acres Langton Matthw. Smith, frmr. Cinder hl Massey Henry, farmer Milward Job, assistant overseer Morris John, farmer Morton Samuel, farmer, High wood Parker George, shopkeeper Parkin Isaac, shopkeeper Parkin William, boot maker Reeve Francis, grocer Ripley Co-operative Society Limited (branch) Sitdown Joseph, shopkeeper Staton German, farmer Tomblin John, White Hart P.H Walker John Malin, commercial travellr Watts George, beer retailer [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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