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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Brushfield, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - pp.62-3 |
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BRUSHFIELD is a township in the parish of Bakewell, annexed
to Taddington for ecclesiastical purposes, 5 miles from Tideswell,
3 south from Millers' Dale station on the Derby and Manchester section
of the Midland railway, and 5½ west-north-west from Bakewell,
in the Western division of the county, hundred of High Peak, Bakewell
union, petty sessional division and county court district ; it consists
of four farmhouses only, and is situated between ridges of hills.
There is a footpath north of the hill, which leads to Tideswell by
Litton Mills, and one to Monsal Dale station. The Duke of Devonshire
is lord of the manor and entire landowner. The are is 655 acres ;
rateable value £1,163 ; the polulation in 1881 was 31. The chief
crops are turnips, oats and most of the land is pasture. Letters through Stockport arrive at Taddington, from which they are called for, at 8.30 a.m. The nearest money order office is at Taddington & telegraph office at Millers' Dale The children of this place attend the school at Taddington Broome George, farmer & agent for the Farmers' Co. chemical manufacturers Blower Wm. farmer, Brushfield hough Heathcote John, farmer [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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