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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Mapperly, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.251 |
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MAPPERLY is a township, 8 miles north-east from Derby, and
3 north-west from Ilkeston station, and was formed into an ecclesiastical
parish 22 July, 1870, from the civil parish of Kirk Hallam, in the
Ilkeston division of the county, Appletree hundred, Smalley petty
sessional division, union of Belper, county court district of Belper
and Ilkeston, rural deanery of Ilkeston, archdeaconry of Derby and
diocese of Southwell. The Nutbrook Canal crosses the eastern side
of the township, and the Ilkeston and Heanor branch of the Great Northern
railway also intersects it. The church of The Holy Trinity, built
in 1851, is an edifice of stone, in the Gothic style, consisting of
chancel, nave, south porch, and a western turret containing 5 tubular
bells, fixed in 1890, to replace the 2 previous bells, dated 1851:
there are 200 sittings. The register dates from the year 1851. The
living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £68, net yearly
value £125, with residence, in the gift of Colonel Newdigate,
and held since 1887 by the Rev. John Magens Mello M.A. of St. John's
College, Oxford, F.G.S. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. This is a colliery
district. A charity of £3 12s. 6d. yearly, left in 1817 by the
Rev. F. Gisborne, sometime rector for Staveley, is for clothing. Alfred
Edward Miller Mundy esq. J.P. of Shipley Hall, who is lord of the
manor, and Capt. William Drury Nathaniel Drury-Lowe D.L., J.P. of
Locko Park, are the principal landowners. The soil is clay; subsoil,
clay. The area is 961 acres of land and 21 of water; rateable value,
£3,121; the population in 1881 was 432. Parish Clerk, John Hawley. POST OFFICE.-Mrs. Kezia Hart, receiver. Letters arrive from Derby at 7 a.m. ; dispatched at 7.15 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Smalley. The nearest telegraph office is at West Hallam railway station Mixed School, erected in 1867, & considerably enlarged in 1890, for 140 children & infants; average attendance, 100 children & infants; supported by voluntary contributions ; Mrs. Emma Downing, mistress Mello Rev. John Magens M.A. [vicar] COMMERCIAL. Birkin Joseph, shopkeeper Bunting James, farmer Cope John, traffic manager to A. E. M. Mundy esq. J.P Durow John, joiner Durow Uriah, farmer Else William, farmer Fletcher John, farmer Gamble William, coal dealer Hardy John, shopkeeper Harvey Joseph, Royal Oak P.H. & farmr Harvey Mary Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper Harvey Samuel, Black Horse P.H. & farmer Ling Joseph, farmer Mapperly Colliery Co. Limited (William Hay, manager) Millward Stephen, farmer Pounder Harriet (Mrs.), farmer Shepherd Lydia (Mrs.), farmer [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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