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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Turnditch, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.321 |
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| TURNDITCH (or TURNDICH) is a chapelry and
township, and in 1847 was formed into a parish from the parish of
Duffield ; it is 3½ miles west from Belper and three quarters
of a mile west from ShottIe station on the Derby and Wirksworth branch
of the Midland railway, in the Mid division of the county, hundred
of Appletree, Belper union and petty sessional division, Belper and
Ilkeston county court district, rural deanery of Wirksworth, archdeaconry
of Derby and diocese of Southwell. The village is pleasantly situated
on a bold acclivity at the base of which runs the river Ecclesbourne.
The chapel of All Saints is a building apparently of the Early English
period, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a turret containing
one bell ; the windows are of post Reformation date; the ancient octagonal
font is 25 inches in diameter and rests on a square chamfered base:
there are 150 sittings. The register of baptisms dates from 1780,
of marriages from 1845, and of burials from 1848; the earlier registers
are at Duffield. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £93,
including 31½ acres of glebe, in the gift of the vicar of Duffield,
and held since 1874 by the Rev. Francis Lambert Cursham B.A. of Christ's
College, Cambridge. A vicarage house was erected in 1863, on a site
given by Lord Scarsdale, commanding a fine view of the Ecclesbourne
valley. There is a Congregational chapel with Sunday school, erected
in 1818, by the late Mr. William Statham, of this place, and Mr. A.
Harrison, of Belper, and endowed by Mr. W. Statham. The Primitive
Methodists have also a place of worship here. A charity of about £7
yearly, left in 1817 by the Rev. Francis Gisborne, sometime rector
of Staveley, is for clothing. The principal landowners are Lord Scarsdale,
William Statham esq. J. Gilbert Crompton esq. J.P., D.L. of Brailsford,
Mrs. Milnes and Dr John Adsetts. The soil is principally clay; subsoil,
clay, gravel and limestone. The chief crops are wheat, oats, and barley,
and about two-thirds pasture. The acreage is 811; rateable value,
£1,618; the population in 1881 was 303. Sexton, Thomas Allcock. POST OFFICE.-Letters from Derby via. Duffield. Box cleared at 7 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Idridgehay & telegraph office at ShottIe railway station National School (mixed), erected in 1846, for 110 children ; average attendance, 82 children; John Wale, master ; Mrs. Mary Wale, mistress Cursham Rev. Fras. Lambert B.A.[vicar] Haslam Rev. John, Ravenscliffe Humber Mrs. Hill Cliffe lane Milnes Mrs Newcombe Wm. Lister, Green bank Whiston William Harvey, Holme hurst Whittaker Mrs. Yew villa COMMERCIAL. Abell William, Cross Keys P.H Alton Thomas, boot maker Fowke Samuel, farmer Gregory John, shopkeeper Gregory Joshua, farmer Harrison Frederick, clock maker Lomas Robert, farmer Morley Henry, wheelwright Richardson Charles Ride, Tiger inn Richardson Thomas, farmer Rogers George, farmer Slater John, farmer, Turnditch hall Smedley Maria (Mrs.), shopkeeper Stoppard Tom, farmer Toogood William, farmer Wallis Alfred, farmer Warren George, farmer, Ash house Willder Samuel Clark, farmer [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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