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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Bretby, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - pp.61-62 |
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| BRETBY is a chapelry in the parish of Repton,
2¾ miles south from Repton, 10½ south-east from Derby,
3¾ east-by north from Burton-upon-Trent railway station, Southern
division of the county, hundred of Repton and Gresley, Repton petty
sessional division, union and county court district of Burton-upon-Trent.
The church of St. Wystan is a small but handsome edifice of stone
in the Early English style, entirely rebuilt in 1878 at the sole cost
of the late Countess of Chesterfield, and consists of chancel, nave,
north aisle, south porch and a low tower at the west end, containing
5 modern bells: the east window is a memorial to George Augustus Frederick,
6th Earl of Chesterfield, d. 1 June, 1866, and there are similar
memorials to George Philip Cecil Arthur, 7th Earl of Chesterfield,
d. 21 Oct. 1883, and to his sister and heiress Evelyn, 1st
wife of Henry, late Earl of Carnarvon; she d. 27 Jan. 1875
: there is also a tablet to the memory of the late Earl of Beaconsfield
K.G. d. 19 April, 1881, erected by the late Countess of Chesterfield
: there are 130 sittings. The register, of baptisms only, dates from
the year 1766. The living is a donative vicarage, net yearly value
£200, with residence and glebe, in the gift of the Earl of Carnarvon.
Bretby Park is the seat of the Earl of Carnarvon, who is lord of the
manor and sole landowner ; the park is about 700 acres in extent and
contains 200 to 300 head of deer. At Stanton is an extensive colliery
belonging to and worked by the trustees of the late Earl of Carnarvon.
The soil varies; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley,
oats and roots. The area is 1,550 acres ; rateable value, £3,591
; the population in 1881 was 336. POST & M. O. O., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.- Charity Ann Wheddon, postmistress. Letters arrive from Burton-on-Trent at 7.45 a.m. ; dispatched at 6.50 p.m. week days & 10.45 a.m. sundays. Swadlincote is the nearest telegraph office PILLAR Box at Bretby Colliery, cleared on week days at 9.45 a.m. &7.10 p.m. ; sunday 10.30 a.m School (mixed), built in 1807, for 60 children; average attendance, 48 ; Samuel Glover Wheddon, master Carnarvon Earl of, Bretby park COMMERCIAL. Bretby Collieries (Wm. Johnson, agnt) Campbell Colin, land steward to the Earl of Carnarvon Broadhurst Thomas, Stanhope Arms P.H Faulkner Samuel, wheelwright Hinton Mark, farmer & driller Jefford William, farmer Mazon Eliza (Miss), shopkeeper Moon Frederick, blacksmith Smith John, farmer Startin James, farmer, Home farm Tabberer William, farmer Upton Joseph, farmer Wain William, farmer Warrington William, farmer [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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