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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Stoney Middleton, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.308-9 |
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| STONY MIDDLETON, on the road from Buxton to
Chesterfield, is a township and parochial chapelry in the parish of
Hathersage, from which it is separated by that of Eyam, 5 miles north-north-east
from Bakewell, 5 east from Tideswell, 4 north from Hassop station
and 162 from London, in the Western division of the county, hundred
of High Peak, Bakewell union, petty sessional division and county
court district, rural deanery of Eyam, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese
of Southwell. The chapel of St. Martin, at at the lower end of the
village, is an octagonal building erected in 1759, in place of an
earlier structure, consisting, as far as is known, of a simple chancel
and nave : the embattled western tower, a low structure of Late Perpendicular
date, remains and contains 3 bells, all cast in 1720 : there is an
inscription in the church to Mrs. Denman, but no monuments earlier
than the 18th century : a mural tablet of Derbyshire marble was placed
in the nave in 1888 by the members of the Clerical Greek Testament
Meeting, as memorial to the late Rev. Urban Smith M.A. incumbent of
this parish, 1834-88 : the churchyard is very small, but a cemetery
has been laid out at a distance of about a quarter of a mile, and
was consecrated by the Bishop of Lichfield 11 Oct. 1878 : there are
250 sittings. The register, which is in fair condition, dates from
the year 1715 for all entries. The living is a perpetual curacy, average
tithe rent-charge £16, gross yearly value £178, including
12 acres of glebe at Bradfield, Yorks, with residence, in the gift
of the vicar of Hathersage, and held since 1888 by the Rev. John Barnett
Riddlesden M.A. of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge. Here is a Wesleyan
chapel, built in 1827. A charity of £7 5s. yearly, left in 18I8
by the Rev. F. Gisborne, sometime rector of Staveley, is for clothing
: there is also a Christmas dole of £3. The village has a very
picturesque appearance, some of the houses being situated one above
another on the ledge of rock, and others at the foot of the overhanging
precipices which rise above them. For 1½ miles before reaching
the village from Tideswell, the road runs along a narrow valley, on
each side of which rise steep grassy slopes, partially covered with
brushwood and above these are perpendicular rocks overgrown with ivy,
in many places upwards of 200 feet in height; near to the village
on this road, and at the foot of a hill, is a tiny spring, discharging
a great volume of water, which in a dry summer is of great service
to the district when other springs in the locality are dry : in a
narrow cleft in the rocks called " Middleton Dale" is a
lofty rock known as the " Lovers' Leap." In the village
is a warm spring, with a temperature of 60 degrees, and possessing
all the properties for curing rheumatism, for which Buxton (of 80
degrees of warmth) is so much frequented : baths were erected by the
late Lord Denman on the site of an ancient bath of supposed Roman
origin : here are places for manufacturing barytes and in the dale
are several limekilns. The seat of Lord Denman D.L., J.P. situated
near the church, is a gabled mansion of stone, in grounds of about
4 acres, through which a brook meanders and creates a waterfall, and
when the mines do not discharge too much refuse, trout abound in the
brook, which flows into the Derwent. The Duke of Devonshire K.G. who
is lord of the manor, and Lord Denman are the principal landowners.
The land is on limestone and mainly in grass. The hills abound with
lead. The area is 1,168 acres ; rateable value, £1,560 ; the
population in 1881 was 354. Parish Clerk, Joseph Jackson. POST OFFICE.-Samuel Worsencroft, receiver. Letters received through Sheffield by mail cart at 7.50 a.m. ; dispatched at 5.40 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Calver & telegraph office is at Eyam Police Station, John Allcock, inspector National School (mixed), erected in 1835 & enlarged in 1845, now holding 96 children; average attendance, 75; Henry John Wadlow, master CARRIER TO SHEFFIELD.-Robert Hallam, tues. & sat. to the Blue Bell inn, returning same days PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Denman Lord D.L., J.P Fletcher Miss, Hawthorn cottage Riddlesden Rev. John Barnett M.A. [incumbent], Parsonage Von Ellrodt Mrs. Hawthorn Cottage COMMERCIAL. Allcock John, inspector of police Bagley Martha (Mrs.), farmer Barnes William, blacksmith Bland James, barytes manufr. & farmer Bland Robert, farmer Boam William, mason, Craig Sted Booking Joseph, Royal Oak P.H Carter George, shoe maker Cocker Ezra, shoe manufacturer Collingham John, Grouse P.H Coupe Ernest, Bull's Head P.H Eidson John William, farmer Eidson Sarah (Mrs.) shopkeeper Froggatt & Son, millers (water) Furness Charles, farmer Furness Samuel, farmer & lime burner, Highfield Gascoyne Edward, agent for Queen's Insurance Co. & school attendance officer for North division of Bakewell union Goddard & Heginbotham, wholesale boot & shoe manufacturers Goddard Ebenezer, butcher Goddard Henry, farmer & lime burner Goddard Thos. farmer & tallow chandler Goddard William, shopkeeper Hallam Benjamin, wholesale shoe mnfr Hallam Frederick Stockdale, farmer Hallam Jonathan, farmer & assistant overseer Hallam Robert, farmer & carrier Hallam Peter John, Stag's Head P.H. & farmer Hancock Archilaus, wholesale boot & shoe manufacturer Hancock George & John, butchers Hancock Robert, farmer Hancock Tbomas, farmer Hancock William, farmer Hegginbotham Henry, farmer Heginbotham H.& A. W. barytes manufs Heginbotham Luther, wholesale boot & shoe manufacturer Jackson Mary (Mrs.) & Daniel, besom manufacturers Jackson James, clerk to the Baslow St. Anne Local Board Mason George William, farmer & joiner Mason James, wheelwright Mellor Buxton Wm. farmer, Black Harry Millward James, farmer Morton Hannah (Mrs.), Lover's Leap P.H. Moseley John, farmer Nugent John & Francis, wholesale boot & shoe manufacturers Pursglove Joseph, butcher Radford Martha (Mrs.), shopkeeper Richardson Joseph, hawker Sharman William Outram, greengrocer Trickett Elizabeth (Mrs.), Moon inn, commercial & posting house Thomas, shopkeeper Worsencroft Saml. shopkpr. Post office [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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