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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Birchover, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - pp. 49-50 |
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| BIRCHOVER is a township
and small village, in the parish of Stanton-in-Peak, 1¼ miles
north from Winster, 3 west from Darley station, on the Derby and Manchester
section of the Midland railway, 154 from London and 6 north-west from
Matlock, in the Western division of the county, hundred of High Peak
Bakewell union, petty sessional division and county court district.
The water supply is derived from springs rising in the neighbouring
hills. The church at Row Tor, in this township (probably dedicated
to St. Michael and All Angels), was built by Thomas Eyre esq.
who died in 1717, leaving an endowment as below for a chaplain, who
should read the Common Prayer in this chapel twice every day and administer
the Sacrament every Sun-day: about 1869 a chancel was added, the cost
being defrayed by the late William Pole Thornhill esq. and the chapel
was restored in 1877, at a cost of £150: it now consists of
a chancel and nave, with a turret containing 1 bell: there are monuments
to the Rev. John Gresley, minister or this chapel and rector of Aller,
Somerset (1795) and to John Bradley gent. of Row Tor (1795) : there
are 100 sittings. The living is a chapelry in the parish of Stanton-in-the-Peak,
endowed by the late Thomas Eyre esq. of Row Tor Hall, with £20
a year, in the gift of Mrs. McCreagh-Thornhill, and held since 1891
by the Rev. James Edwin Jagger M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge.
The vicarage house, situated here, was built on the site of old Row
Tor Hall. There is a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1857, and a Primitive
Methodist chapel in 1867. About a mile from the chapel, at the base
of the Cratcliffe Rocks, is a hermitage, consisting of a shallow cave,
partly concealed by a yew tree : to the right, on entering, is a well-carved
crucifix, about 4 feet high and fairly preserved ; near it is a small
niche, apparently for a lamp, and also a seat, hewn out of the rock:
the general execution of the sculpture secms to indicate a period
not later than the 13th century. Here is an angular pile of gritstone
rocks, called the "Row Tor," about 80 yards in length and
50 feet in height, with a subterranean passage 90 feet long : there
is also an irregular shaped rock, called the "rocking stone,"
estimated to weigh more than 40 tons, which could formerly be moved
by the hand only, and other rocking stones of less from importance.
Major Michael McCreagh-Thornhill of Stanton is lord of the manor and
principal landowner. The soil is limestone and grit; subsoil, stone
beds. The area is 833 acres; rateable value, £ 1,080; the Population
in 1881 was 76. Letters through Bakewell arrive at 9 a.m. Winster is the nearest money order & telegraph office. WALL BOX cleared 4.45 p.m Infant School, erected by Major McCreagh-Thornhill in 1883, to hold 60; average attendance, 30; Miss Helen Mary Rains, mistress. The elder children attend school at Winster & Stanton Bradley Miss Jagger Rev. Jas. Edwin M.A. Vicarage Robinson Misses COMMERCIAL. Dakin Levi, mason Dakin Samuel, mason Dale Stephen, farmer Gregory Priscilla (Miss), farmer Gregory Sl. landscape gardnr. & seedsmn Hartle John, shopkeeper Heathcote Joseph, farmer Howsley Thomas, Red Lion P.H Johnson Alfred, miller (water) Marsden George, Druid P.H Marsden Joseph, farmer Phillips William, stone merchant Prince James, stone merchant Roose William, shopkeeper Taylor Henry, tailor [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation are as they appear in the Directory.]
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