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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Pleasley, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - pp.285-286 |
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PLEASLEY is a township, parish and pleasant village, including
Pleasley Hill, in the parish of St. John, Mansfield, on the road from
Mansfield to Chesterfield, with a station on the Teversall branch
of the Midland railway, 3 miles north-west from Mansfield, 9 south-east
from Chesterfield, in the Chesterfield division of the county, hundred
of Scarsdale, Chesterfield petty sessional division, Mansfield union
and county court district, rural deanery of Alfreton, archdeaconry
of Derby and diocese of Southwell. The church of St. Michael is a
building of stone, in the Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular
styles, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled
western tower containing 3 bells : the chancel arch is Norman, highly
ornamented, and the tower Perpendicular : there are 250 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1553. The living is a rectory, average
tithe rent-charge £650, and other emoluments about £150,
gross yearly value £800, with residence and 3 acres of glebe,
in the gift of Mrs. McCreagh Thornhill, and held since 1884 by the
Rev. John Blomefield M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge. Services
are held on Sunday evenings in the new school at New Houghton. The
United Free Methodists hold services on Sunday in the British schoolroom
at Pleasley Vale. The Rev. Francis Gisborne, formerly rector of Staveley,
in 1818 left £6 13s. to this parish, which is expended in clothing
for the poor. Pleasley Vale, a romantic spot extending from a mile
and a quarter to a mile and a half north-east of the village, is the
site of the extensive cotton, silk and merino spinning mills of William
Hollins and Co. Limited, giving employment to 400 or 500 hands : the
river Meden or Mayden winds for a mile through the valley, and previous
to reaching the first mill spreads itself into a wide sheet; both
water and steam power are employed. On the north-east side of the
lower mills are precipitous rocks, or ravines of limestone. A market
formerly
held here on Mondays has for many years been discontinued : the pedestal
of the market cross still remains on the brow of the hill in the village.
Two fairs are held for cattle, horses and sheep, on May 6th and October
29th. The mansion of Wm. Hollins esq. J.P. stands on a slight eminence
commanding a view of the river and was considerably enlarged in 1861.
The Right Hon. Sir Harry Verney bart. P.C. of Claydon, Bucks, is lord
of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is limestone and clay;
subsoil, rock and clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats, and barley.
The acreage, comprising Shirebrook (which will be found under a separate
head) and the hamlet of STONEY HOUGHTON, and the colliery villages
of Upper Pleasley and New Houghton, is 3,293, of which 224 are woodland
; rateable value, £9,719; the population of the parish in 1881
was 1,152. Parish Clerk, Henry Rogers. POST & M. O. O., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, Pleasley Hill, Notts.-Thomas Dutton, receiver. Letters are received through Mansfield at 7.30 a.m. ; dispatched at 5 & 7.30 p.m. ; saturdays, 5 p.m. only. The telegraph office is at the railway station WALL LETTER Box, Stoney Houghton, cleared at 4.25 p.m. week days only SCHOOLS :- Church of England (mixed& infants'), erected in 1875, for 120 boys & girls &; 100 infants; average attendance, 130 ; infants, 100 ; Charles Leigh, master New Houghton, erected 1884, for 100 children; average attendance, 5O; Miss Millin, mistress Sunday School is held in all the schools British, Pleasley Vale, erected by Messrs. W. Hollins & Co. Limited, for 200 children; average attendance, 100 ; Miss Mary Lucy Flint, mistress Railway Station. William Henry Pugh, station master CARRIER.-John Cooper, to Black Horse, Mansfield, thurs. & sat Blomefield Rev. John M.A Rectory Hollins William J.P. Pleasley vale Munro James Mitchell M.B COMMERCIAL. Booth John, farmer, Stoney Houghton Cooper John. omnibus proprietor Crooks Samuel, farmer Dean Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Dodsley Robt. farmer, Stoney Houghtn Downs Samuel, farmer, The Lodge Featherstone Samuel, blacksmith Heath Thomas, farmer, Stoney Houghtn Hollins William & Co. (Nottm.), Lim. cotton silk & merino spinners (Claude Hollins esq. sec. ; H. E. Hollins esq. managing director ; Herbert Porter esq. assistant manager ; David Brooks, cashier; Thomas Snaith, engineer), Pleasley works Holmes John Machin, farmer Hopkinson Joseph, farmer Humphrey William, farmer & butcher Kirk Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper Lawrence Benj. farmer, Stoney Houghtn Munro James Mitchell M.B., C.M. surgn Pleasley Colliery (Stanton Iron Co. proprietors; J. C. B. Hendy, certificated manager) Pleasley Co-operative Society (James Edward Wilkinson, manager) Renshaw Benjamin, farmer, Batley Sandy Wm. farm bailiff to J.Paget esq. J.P Smith Frederick, Nag's Head P.H Tatham Joseph, farmer, The Park Wass James. farmer, Stoney Houghton Wass John, Devonshire Arms P.H. Stoney Houghton [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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