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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Brampton (Old Brampton), Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - pp.56-57 |
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BRAMPTON is a township, extensive and important village and
parish, including the district of St. Thomas', New Brampton, adjoining
Chesterfield on the west, in the Chesterfield division of the county,
Scarsdale hundred, union, petty sessional division and county court
district of Chesterfield, rural deanery of Chesterfield, archdeaconry
of Derby and diocese of Southwell. The church of SS. Peter and Paul
[has a] nave of three bays, aisles, south porch and a tower with octagonal
broach spire, containing a clock and 5 bells with inscriptions, and
a sanctus bell in a bell-cot over the eastern gable of the nave: of
the church existing here prior to 1253 there is at least one relic
in the Norman doorway of the south porch, which on the inside becomes
Early English, the two styles being intermixed : the south porch,
with the
Decorated: the exterior walls exhibit various singular stone figures
or Early English date, including effigies under canopies of SS. Peter
and Paul: the north aisle retains a piscina with a trefoiled head:
the chancel has a fiat Perpendicular roof, the east window and two
others on the south being of the same period : in the wall at the
west end of the nave is a stone slab with inscription, in Lombardic
characters, to Matilda le Cans, probably the heiress of that barony,
who died in 1224 : through a quatrefoil opening at its upper end appear
the head and shoulders of a female in bas-relief, and a narrow oblong
opening at the bottom discloses the feet and lower part of the drapery:
there are monuments of the 17th and 18th centuries to the Clarkes
of Somersall, and beneath one of these a small brass to Nicholas Clarke
of Brampton, ob. 1589: the church was restored in 1868 at a
cost of £700, when the tower arch was opened, the aisle arches
repaired, and tracery restored to the clerestory windows: there are
330 sittings. In the churchyard, near the priest's door, lies an Early
English sepulchral slab, sculptured with foliage. In lieu of an ancient
claim of burial exercised by Chesterfield, 2s. was formerly annually
paid to the vicar or that parish for the first person who dies at
Brampton after New Year's Day. The register dates from the year 1658.
The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £72, net
yearly value £288, with residence, in the gift or the Bishop
of Southwell, and held since 1879 by the Rev. George Shipton, of Cambridge
College, and rural dean of Dronfield. There is a Wesleyan chapel at
Hollins. Shaw's, Allenborough's and other charities for distribution
amount to £215 18s. 1d. yearly. The Duke of Devonshire K.G.
who is lord of the manor, Sir G. R.
Sitwell bart. J.P. of Renishaw Hall, Eckington, Messrs. Wilcockson
Brothers and John Brown esq. are the principal landowners. The soil
is light clay; subsoil, clay. The parish is chiefly agricultural;
a small portion of it is woodland. The acreage is 7,915; rateable
value, £19,549; the population in 1881 was 6,385. POST OFFICE.-John Collis, receiver. Letters from Chesterfield at; 8.30 a.m. ; dispatched at 6 p.m. The nearest telegraph & money order office is at New Brampton POST & M. O. O., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, Cutthorpe.-Clement Needham, sub-postmaster. Letters, via Chesterfield, received at 7.30 a.m. ; dispatched at 5.25 p.m. ; no delivery or dispatch on sunday. Chesterfield is the nearest telegraph office SCHOOLS:- A School Board, consisting of 7 members, was formed 15th March, 1876, for Brampton & Walton; Mr. William Tom Jones, Chesterfield, clerk; S. Haslam, attendance officer Board (mixed), Cutthorpe. erected in 1884 at a cost, inclusive of site, of about £2,000, for 300 children; average attendance, 50 boys, 40 girls & 29 infants; James Lindsay, master; Miss Annie Shaw, mistress ; Miss Amy Hopkinson, infants' mistress Board (formerly National School), erected in 1830, for 80 children; average attendance, 63 ; Miss E. A. Tomlinson, mistress; Miss Ada Wilkinson, assistant mistress Industrial (Chesterfield Union), erected in 1881, for 200 children; number in 1890 was 117; Harry J. Hodgkinson, master; Miss Ellen Read, mistress PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Barnes Alfred M.P., D.L., J.P. Ashgate lodge; & 105 Pall mall, London s w Barnes Arthur Gorell J. P. Ashgate lodge Barnes Miss, Ashgate cottage Barnes Mrs. Ashgate house Bothamley Charles P Dixon George, Brampton hall Hill Charles Margereson Francis, Thorpe house Margereson Thomas, Pratt hall Moore Miss, Pratt hall Rogers William, Pratt hall Shipton Rev. Geo. [Vicar & rural dean] COMMERCIAL. Barlow John B. colliery proprietor, Broomfield colliery Bonsall Samuel, farmer, Wadshelf Botham William Drabble, auctioneer & farmer, Londsley green Bothom Wm. mason & farmr. Cutthorpe Bower Wm. farmer & carrier, Hib hill Bowler Charles, farmr. Up. Ashgate frm Bradley William, farmer, Wadshelf Bradshaw Edmund, farmer, Frith hall Bradshaw Jn. Thos. cowkeepr. Woodnook Bradshaw Joseph, farmer, Birches Brampton Reading Room & Library (John Mee, superintendent) Collis John, shoemaker, Post office Crookes Ellen (Mrs.), butcher & farmer, Cutthorpe Cutthorpe Reading Room & Library (Mrs. Ann Turner, superintendent) Dixon George, farmer, Hall farm Drabble John Hibbert,farmer, Hollins hl Fidler Elizabeth Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Priestfield Fisher George, New inn, East moor Fox Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper Froggatt Benjamin, grocer, Wadshelf Froggatt Hezekiah, farmer, Wadshelf Froggatt Jason, farmer, Stonelowe Froggatt John, farmer, Freebirch lane Froggatt John Turner, farmr. Wadshelf Furness John & Co. quarry owners, Moorhay Gilling Thomas, farmer, Cutthorpe hall Hall Elias, farmer, East moor Hall John, farmer, Wadshelf Hancock Charles, farmer, Up. Newbold Hancock James, Fox & Goose P.H, Wigley green Hancock Thomas, farmer, Freebirch Hancock Thomas, farmer, Cutthorpe grn Hardwick Dorothy (Mrs.), farmer, Cutthorpe Heath Joseph, farmer, East moor Heath Joseph, sen, farmer, Rod Knowle Hill Charles, joiner, East moor Hill Edward, farmer, Rod Knowle Hill Joseph, farmer, Rod Knowle Hopkinson Samuel, farmer & gamekeepr Hudson Margt.(Mrs.), farmer, East moor Kay Joseph, farmer, East moor Littlewood Elizh. (Miss), frmr. Bagthorpe Lowe George, cowkeeper, Woodnook Lowe Jas. shopkpr. & farmer, Wadshelf Lowe Robert, Gate inn, Overgreen Mansfield George, farmer, Wadshelf Margereson Francis & Sons, quarry owners, Thorpe house Margereson George, farmer, Pratts hall Margereson Petrer, farmer, Wadshelf Marples George, blacksmith & farmer Marsh Benjamin, stone mason & farmer Mason Ann (Miss), farmer, Cutthorpe Mattingley Charles, farmer, East moor Mee John, beer retailer, Cutthorpe Mitchell Jsph. farmer, Caus ho. Ashgate Murfin Thomas A. farmer, Wigleys Needham Clement, rate collector & post office, Cutthorpe Needham Herbert, basket ma. Cutthorpe Nelson Thomas James, gardener to Alfred Barnes esq. M.P., J.P. Ashgate Newbold Elizh.(Mrs.), farmr. Wadshelf Newbold George, blacksmith, Wadshelf Newbold John Steele, farmr. Free Birch Newn George, farmer, Rod Knowle Nichols Chas. joiner & wheelwt. Cutthrpe Nicholls George, blacksmith, & Peacock P.H. Cutthorpe Nicholls Wm. John, farmer, Cutthorpe Pearson Samuel, farmer, Bluster castle Preston Christr. Cutthorpe hotel, & frmr Robinson Edward, wood carver & dealer in antiques, Woodnook Robinson Jane (Mrs.), farmer, East moor Shemwell John, farmer, Leadhill Shipley Isaac, George & Dragon P.H Silcock William, farmer, Wadshelf Simpson George, cowkeeper, Cutthorpe Slack Joseph, cowkeeper, Woodnook Swann Benjamin, farm bailiff to Bernard Lucas esq. Birley Toplis William, quarry owner, Ridings Turner Frank, monmntl. msn. Cutthorpe Turner Gervase, cowkeeper, East moor Turner Mary (Mrs.), beer retlr. & farmr Turner Peter, stone mason, Cutthorpe Vickers Arthur, farmer, Stonelowe Walker Charles, farmer, Wadshelf Walker Peter, grocer, Cutthorpe Waterhouse Edward, farmer Wilcockson John, farmer, Broomfields Wilcockson Samuel, farmer, The Yews Wilson James, farmer, Cutthorpe Wragg Herbt. joiner & farmer, Grove frm [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation are as they appear in the Directory.]
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