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| Brackenfield & Woolley, Derbyshire |
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| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - pp. 53-4 |
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| BRACKENFIELD & WOOLLEY
constitute a township and ecclesiastical parish, formed 14 Sept. 1844
from the parish of Morton, from which it is separated by the parish
of Shirland, 3 miles south-west from Morton, 2 south-by-west from
Stretton station, and 4½ north-west from Alfreton, in the Mid
division of the county, Scarsdale hundred, Chesterfield union, petty
sessional division and county court district of Alfreton, rural deanery
of Alfreton, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. The village
is supplied with water from wells. The chapel of the Holy Trinity
is a small and ancient building situated on a high hill, half a mile
from either village and is now disused: the church of the same name,
erected near Brackenfield Green in 1856, is an edifice in the Decorated
style, consisting of chancel with north chapel, nave of three bays,
north aisle, porch, vestry, and a north-west tower with spire, containing
3 bells: there is a brass screen erected to the memory of Gladwin
Turbutt esq, by his Ogston tenantry in 1872 : and at the west end
of the church is placed the old screen of Trinity chapel, restored
with four of the oak benches in 1881: there are 230 sittings. The
register of the chapel dates from 1845, that of the church from 1857.
The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £80, in the gift
of William G. Turbutt esq. and held since 1857 by the Rev. Charles
Holcombe Leacroft M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, who is also
vicar of Dethick. There is a Free Methodist chapel of brick, erected
in 1890, at a cost of £160 and seating 150 persons. The Alfreton
Waterworks Company have a large reservoir in this district, and another
was constructed at Lindway in 1890, covering an area of 2 acres and
capable of holding 12,000,000 gallons. Ogston Hall is the seat of
William Gladwin Turbutt esq. J.P. who is lord of the manor and principal
landowner. The soil is mixed ; subsoil, clay & loam. The chief
crops are wheat, oats and pasture: the acreage is 1,516; rateable
value, £2,437; the population in 1881 was 322. Parish Clerk, Robert Hopkinson. Letters through Alfreton, the nearest money order office. The nearest telegraph office is at Higham National School (mixed), erected for 100 children; average attendance, 84; together with a master's house, in 1845, & enlarged in 1890 for 135 children, by subscription & grants from the National Society ; Charles Gatehouse, master Leacroft Rev, Charles Holcombe M.A. Vicarage Turbutt Wm, Gladwin J.P. Ogston hall COMMERCIAL. Barker George, farmer, Woolley Barker William, farmer Beresford Joel, blacksmith, Woolley Boot Henry, farmer Breedon John, farmer, Roadnook Burton Abraham, shopkeeper & farmer Colledge Thomas, farmer Draycott John, farmer, Woolley Fox Joseph, farmer Grocott James, farmer Harvey Eliza (Mrs.), farmer Haslam James, farmer, & farm bailiff to R. C. Hubbersty esq. & William de Burgh Jessop esq. J.P. Woolley Hobson William, farmer Hopkinson Henry, farmer, Woolley Hopkinson Robert, farmer Limb George, farmer Limb John, farmer, Church farm Limb John, jun. farmer Limb Thomas, farmer Marriott William, farmer, Woolley Marshall George, farmer & assistant overseer & collector of rates Millward Henry, farmer Richardson Walter, farmer Riggott John, farmer, Woolley Saunders Samuel, farmer Shaw Charles, farmer Shemwell Herbert, farmer, Woolley Slater Samson, farmer Spencer John, farmer Spencer William, farmer, Woolley Stamford Ely, farmer Taylor Thomas, Plough inn, & farmer, Moor house Taylor William, farmer Wilson Luke, farmer Wright John, farmer [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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