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| Barrow-upon-Trent, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - pp.40-41 |
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BARROW-UPON-TRENT is a parish, comprising the township of BARROW-UPON-TRENT,
the township of SINFIN and ARLESTON, and the joint township of TWYFORD
and STENSON, in the Southern division of the county, partly in
the hundred of Appletree and partly in that of Morleston and Litchurch,
union of Shardlow, Derby petty sessional
division and county court district, rural deanery of Melbourne, archdeaconry
of Derby, and diocese of Southwell. Barrow-on-Trent is 132 miles from
London, 2 miles west from Chellaston station on the Midland railway,
3 east from Willington station on the Midland railway, and 5¾
south from Derby, near the Grand Trunk Canal and river Trent. The
church of St. Wilfrid is a venerable edifice of stone in the Early
English style, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of three bays,
aisles, north porch and a western embattled tower with pinnacles,
containing 3 bells, dated 1613 : in the church is an ancient monument
very much broken and defaced, bearing the recumbent effigy of a man
with a dog at his feet, but without date or inscription: there is
also a brass to Elizabeth, wife of Henry Milwarde of Sinfin (1610),
and to her husband (1615),erected by their youngest son, John, and
in the chancel a monument to Richard Sale, dated 1661, and a memorial
window to Richard Sale and his wife; and remains of a piscina niche:
there are 157 sittings. The register dates from the year 1657. The
living is a vicarage, consolidated with Twyford-with-Stenson, average
tithe rent-charge £21, with 40 acres of glebe, value £75,
net yearly value £108, in the gift of Mrs. Wilson, of Kenley,
Surrey, and held since 1886 by the Rev. William Alfred
Shilcock B.A. of Christ's College, Cambridge, who resides at Barrow-on-Trent
vicarage house, locally in Twyford. There is a Congregational chapel
here. The principal landowners are Richard Sale esq. who is lord of
the manor, Sir Henry Dalrymple DesVœux bart. of 46 Grosvenor
pl w and Sir Vauncey Harpur Crewe bart. of Calke. The Sale family
were landowners here at the time of the Domesday survey. The soil
is gravelly; subsoil, various. The chief crops are oats, wheat, barley,
but there is a good portion of pasture land. The entire area is 5,840
acres. The area of Barrow-upon-Trent is 1,130 acres; rateable value,
£2,638 ; the population of the township in 1881 was 299. Sinfin
and Arleston form a township in the parish of Barrow, to the north,
with a population in 1881 of 55. SINFIN, 3 miles south from Derby, contains 351 acres of fertile land. Sir Vauncey Harpur Crewe bart. is the sole landowner. ARLESTON is 4 miles south-by-west from Derby, with 445 acres of fertile land; rateable value, £1,131. Arleston House, a very ancient building, is supposed to have been formerly a chapel. Parish Clerk, Edward Garratt. POST OFFICE.-Charles Robinson, receiver. Letters through Derby arrive at 6.15 a.m. ; dispatched at 6.25 p.m. ; sundays 5.30 p. m. The nearest money order office is at Chellaston ; the nearest telegraph office at Chellaston station. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid School, mixed, erected in 1843 to hold about 100 ; average attendance, 66 ; Mrs. S. E. Robinson, mistress Barrow-upon-Trent. Bing Andrew Bernard Eadie James, Barrow hall Ley Francis Sale Richard, Barrow hill Southall Thomas Turner George COMMERCIAL. Bucknall Sarah (Mrs.), farmer Bucknall Samuel Thomas, farmer Camp John, farmer Elkins John, farmer Frost John, farmer; & at Ednestone Garratt Edward, wheelwright Garratt Enoch, joiner Garratt Joseph, farmer Haynes James, blacksmith Marson John, farmer Roome Charles, baker Sharp George, coal dealer Sharp George, farmer Spencer Reuben, shoe maker Turner George, landscape painter Wagg Stephen, farmer Williamson Ellen (Mrs.), farmer Sinfin. Mather Thomas, farmer Radford John, farmer Sharpe George, farmer, Sinfin Moor Smith William, farmer, Sinfin Moor Webb William, farmer Arleston. Brickwood, William, farmer Brown James, farmer [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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