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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Morton, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.268 |
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| MORTON is a township and parish, half a mile
west from Doe Hill station, 1½ miles south-east from Stretton
station, both on the Midland railway, 3 miles north from Alfreton
and 7½ south from Chesterfield, in the Mid division of the
county, Scarsdale hundred, Chesterfield union, Alfreton petty sessional
division and county court district, rural deanery of Alfreton, archdeaconry
of Derby and diocese of Southwell. The church of the Holy Cross is
a small building of stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel,
nave of three bays, north aisle, south porch and an embattled western
tower with eight crocketed pinnacles, containing 5 bells, one of which
is dated 1631 : there are monuments to William Turbutt esq. d.
1836, and to the Rev. Richard Burrow Turbutt, late rector ; and in
the vestry are brasses to Margery, wife of Edward Nickson, rector
here in 1650, and to a daughter of Ralph Heathcote : most of the windows
are stained, including one in the chancel, erected in 1872, to Mrs.
Mary Siddall by her son, Dr. Joseph Siddall : the church, with the
exception of the Late Perpendicular tower, was rebuilt in 1850, and
affords 150 sittings. The registers date from the year 1575, but are
in bad condition. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge
£319, net yearly value £448, including 59 acres of glebe,
with residence, in the gift of St. John's College, Cambridge and Major
William Gladwin Turbutt J.P. of Ogston Hall, alternately, and held
since 1864 by the Rev. James William Maltby B.A. of St. John's College,
Cambridge. Gisborne's charity of £5 0s. 10d. yearly, left in
1818 by the Rev. Francis Gisborne, sometime rector of Staveley, is
for clothing. A large colliery was opened here by the Clay Cross Company
in 1863, who rent minerals extending under a great portion of the
parish. Nearly the whole parish belongs to Robert Sacheverell Wilmot
Sitwell esq. J.P. of Stainsby House, near Derby, who is also lord
of the manor. The arable and pasture land are about equal. The soil
is clay ; subsoil, chiefly clay. The area is 1,258 acres; rateable
value, £6,712 ; the population in 1881 was 879. Sexton, Joseph Henson. POST & M. O. O., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.- Francis William Culverhouse, sub-postmaster. Letters through Alfreton arrive at 9.30; dispatched at 4.55. The nearest telegraph office is at Doe Hill railway station School (mixed), erected in 1885, for 43 boys & girls & 100 infants; average attendance, 65 boys, 60 girls & 75 infants; Mr. Scott Redfearn, master; Miss Gertrude Walters, mistress Goodwin Robert, Morton house Hayward Rev. Samuel Curling [vicar of Pilsley), Morton cottage Maltby Rev. Jas. William B.A. Rectory COMMERCIAL. Bird Richard John D. farmer Clay Cross Co.'s Morton Collieries (Thomas Dunn, manager) Clayton Frederick W. rate collector & assistant overseer Culverhouse F.W. & Co. grocers & provision merchants, & post office ; also corn & flour merchants, confectioners, drapers & boot & shoe dealers, & news agts. Sheffield & Nottingham. strs Cutts Edward Sampson, farmer Cutts William, farmer Dunn Thos. manager of Morton collieries Fritchley William, beer retailer & farmr Hill Robert, wheelwright Linacre James, Station inn Marshall Alfred, grocer Mosley Geo. Sitwell Arms P.H. & farmer Parsons John, blacksmith & machinist Spencer John, farmer Taylor Emanuel, farmer, Morton lodge Titterton Charles, farmer, Padley wood Waywell George, farmer White Samuel, farmer [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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