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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Biggin, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p. 49 |
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| BIGGIN is a hamlet formed into an ecclesiastical
parish in 1849, and comprising the Nether Quarter of Hartington parish,
9 miles north from Ashborne and 2 south-east from Hartington, in the
Western division of the county, hundred of Appletree, union, petty
sessional division and county court district of Ashborne, rural deanery
of Buxton, arch deaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. Biggin
is near the Cromford and High Peak mineral railway : the nearest railway
station is at Bakewell, on the Midland line, 9 miles distant. The
church of St. Thomas is a modern edifice in an Early Gothic style,
built by subscription in 1848, on a site given by the Duke of Devonshire,
and consists of chancel nave of five bays, south porch and an embattled
tower al the west end containing one bell: there are 350 sittings,
220 of which are free. The register dates from the year 1848. The
living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £163, with I acre of
glebe and residence, in the gift of the Duke of Devonshire K.G. and
held since 1886 by the Rev. John Foulger, of St. Aidans. Here is a
Primitive Methodist chapel and there is another at Heathcote. Fairs
for cattle are held on the Tuesday before the second Wednesday in
September and on October 3rd, unless it fall on Sunday, in which case
it is held on the 4th. The Duke of Devonshire K.G. is lord of the
manor. The principal landowners are the Duke of Rutland P.C., G.C.B.,
the Duke of Devonshire and John Slee, of High-gate esq. The soil is
clayey; subsoil, limestone. The land is chiefly used for grazing purposes.
The area is 3,749 acres ; rateable value, £3,739; the population
in 1881 was was [sic] 504, including 379 in Hartington Nether
Quarter. HEATHCOTE, one mile north-west, and NEWHAVEN, 1½ miles east, are hamlets. Parish Clerk, William Palfreyman. Sexton, Isaac Pett. Letters through Ashborne, via Hartington, which is the nearest money order & telegraph office, arrive about II a.m. LETTER Box cleared at 1.30 p.m National (mixed) School, erected for 60 children; average attendance, 47; Miss J. E. Rowley, mistress Dain William, The Cottage Foulger Rev. John [vicar], Vicarage COMMERCIAL. Adkin Edwin, farmer, Old house Brindley John, farmer, Heathcote Clewes James, farmer, Bank house Dawson Thomas, farmer Dakeyne Joseph, farmer, Pike hall Derbyshire John, farmer, Biggin moor Featherstone Michael, shoe ma. Heathcte Finney Elizh. (Mrs.), farmr. Biggin grnge Gould Gilbert, farmer, Pilsbury grange Gould Richard, farmer, Biggin hall Howsley Thomas, farmer, Friden house Kirkham George, farmer, Heathcote Lomas Arthur, farmer Mellor Thomas, Newhaven House hotel (good stabling), & farmer Milner Thomas, farmer, Dale end Moss Mary (Mrs.), beer retailer Naylor William, Waterloo inn Newham Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper Percival Thomas, farmer Percival Wm. farmer, Stoneage grange Pett William, beer retailer Pett William, shopkeeper Redfern John, farmer, Greenhead Shaw John, farmer, Pike hall Stubbs William, farmer, Ivy house Stubbs Francis Wm. joiner & farmer Slater Thomas, stone mason Watson Anthony, blacksmith, Newhaven Webster John, farmer, Heathcote Wilton Joseph, farmer, Newhaven lodge [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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