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| Buxton, Derbyshire |
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| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - pp.43 - 49 |
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BUXTON. Buxton is a celebrated watering place, township & chapelry, on the river Wye, and 3 miles from the source of that river. The old road from Derby to Manchester passes through the town, which is 12 miles west-north-west from Bakewell, 22 north-west from Matlock, 24 south-south-east from Manchester, 38 north-north-west from Derby, 26 south-west from Sheffield and 159 from London by road, in the High Peak division of the county and in the original parish of Bakewell, High Peak hundred, union and county court district of Chapel-en-le-Frith, head of a petty sessional division, rural deanery of Buxton, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. The Midland railway and the London and North Western railway have stations here. The Midland is the direct route from London via Derby, from which town there is access to the north and the eastern districts; the London and North Western communicates via Stockport with Wales, Shropshire and the Potteries, Liverpool and Manchester and all parts of Lancashire, Ireland and the west of Scotland. The North Staffordshire Railway Co. also run trains from the Potteries into the London and North Western station. The High Peak railway (for mineral produce and goods) passes within 1½ miles of Buxton. The Buxton and High Peak Junction railway, a portion of the proposed extension of the London and North Western from Buxton to Ashbourne, was commenced in 1888, and the first five-mile section is well advanced towards completion ; the new line is being connected with the High Peak railway near Hurdlow, and by a branch from Harpur Hill ; near the Buxton station the new line runs over an imposing stone viaduct of 15 arches, one of which spans a principal thoroughfare of the town and the river Wye, a width of 83 feet 9 inches, and most of the remaining arches are each of 42 feet 6 inches span ; the height from the ground is about 60 feet ; another viaduct of 13 arches, each of 36 feet span and about go feet high, crosses the Duke's Drive ; the construction of this section has also necessitated the excavation of a tunnel 500 yards long and the erection of over 20 bridges. Messrs. Naylor Brothers, of Huddersfield, are the contractors. The Duke's Drive, by Wye Dale, commands scenery of the most magnificent and wild description, while the neighbourhood is noted for its healthy situation, and abounds with natural curiosities. The footpath by the banks of the Wye to Miller's Dale, to which the public are admitted on most days, affords a series of beautiful views of river scenery. The town is situated in a deep valley, and would be completely environed with mountains and moorland but for the deep ravine parallel to and below the road leading to Bakewell, through which the river Wye flows in its course towards the Derwent : it is 1,025 feet above the level of the sea, and is situated on the north-west margin of the mountain limestone formation, largely composed of fossil shells, madrepores and other organic remains, and owing to the absorbent character of this formation, the considerable elevation of the place and the consequently light, dry and pure atmosphere, epidemic, endemic and contagious diseases are comparatively little known. A Local Government Board was formed here in 1859, and the place has been efficiently drained, at a cost of £8,000. Gas is supplied from works about a mile from the town, in Ashwood Dale, erected in 1875-6 at a cost of £24,000, and now the property of the Local Board. The town is well supplied with very pure water from the Hogshaw and other reservoirs algo the property of the Local Board. In April, 1885, works for treating the town sewage, originated by Dr. Thresh, a local scientist, were completed at Ashwood Dale by Mr. Hague, the town surveyor: the sewage is clarified and purified by precipitation with iron water and lime, the former being obtained from s disused coal mine, known as the "Old Level Colliery," under Axe Edge and about 3 miles from the works : passing through a series of 14 tanks capable of holding 500,000 gallons, the effluent is thence conducted over a weir along a serpentine course to the river Wye, into which it is discharged in a perfectly inodorous and pure condition. The total cost of the scheme was £5,850. In September, 1886, works were opened, adjoining the sewage works, for the destruction by cremation of the whole of the town's refuse, Two cells are employed, disposing of about 100 tons weekly. The total cost of these works, building and approach road was £1,836. Buxton consists of two parts, the new town to the north and the old town to the south, the latter standing 70 feet higher than the former, with one wide main street and a spacious market place, in the centre of which are the remains of an ancient stone cross. The Crescent, erected a hundred years ago at a cost of £120,000, is a handsome pile three storeys high, the basement storey containing an arcade, which is continued along three sides of the Square and Hot Baths, and forms a covered promenade : at the western end and nearly adjoining it is the Old Hall, now an hotel, in which Mary Queen of Scots occupied apartments when here in the custody of the Earl of Shrewsbury : in front of the western wing of the Crescent is St. Ann's Well. The Palace Hotel, an elegant modern edifice of stone in the Italian style, was built by a company in 1868 at a cost of £60,000, and enlarged in 1887-9 by the addition of north and west wings and a large dining room at an additional outlay of £20,000. The chief object of interest here is the spring of tepid water, issuing in abundance from fissures in the mountain limestone at the temperature of 82° Fahrenheit, and never varying at any season of the year: this mineral water, the permanent character of which has been proved by successive analyses extending over a period of 300 years, is charged with nitrogen gas in a pre-eminent degree, containing also calcareous matter ; the amount of flow is 129½ gallons per minute, but probably a considerable quantity is lost through some connection with the river Wye, which runs near : this water, singularly clear and brilliant and faintly blue in colour, is soft and admirably adapted for making tea, culinary purposes and washing, and has a highly detersive and emollient effect upon the skin, partly due to its calcareous and alkaline qualities: it is used both for medicinal and bathing purposes : it is found to be especially useful in cases of rheumatism in all its forms, or of those nervous affections known as neuralgia, tic-doloreux and sciatica ; it is likewise useful in cases of gout, and in many cases of local and general weakness. Here is also a chalybeate spring of much value for medicinal purposes, analysed by Sir Lyon Playfair, and found by him to contain 1.044 grains of proto-carbonate of iron to the imperial gallon. The Public or Natural baths, situated at the western end of the Crescent, and erected from the designs of Mr. Henry Currey, architect, of London, are approached under cover from the Crescent, the Hall and the Square and form an extensive and most complete establishment, comprising swimming, plunge, private, douche, massage, spray and other baths, luxuriously fitted up, and with every convenience for the most infirm of visitors. The larger baths are lined with porcelain-covered brick and floored with white marble, the waters rising through apertures in the pavement to a height of between 4 and 6 feet and flowing out in a similar way near the top, and there are separate arrangements for dressing. At the opposite end of the Crescent are the Hotor Private Baths, contained in an extensive structure, chiefly of glass and iron, and approached also by a covered way : the baths were re-erected and extended in the period 1851-6. The Devonshire Hospital and Buxton Bath Charity, established in 1858, and occupying an elevated site close to the town and conveniently near the Baths, is supported by subscriptions, annual sermons and voluntary payments from the visitors, enabling poor patients to avail themselves of the benefit of the Buxton waters : each patient admitted receives board, lodging, baths and medicine gratuitously for three weeks; after that time a charge of 17s. 6d. per week is made as long as the patient may remain in the hospital, with the sanction of the medical attendant, but no patient is allowed to remain more than six weeks on the books of the institution without a special order, signed at least by two of the medical staff of the hospital, There are at present 2300 separate beds. An out-patient is entitled to medical advice, medicine and baths, During the 31 years since the hospital was opened there have been 51,298 patients under treatment, of which number 45,315 have been treated beneficially ; 5,778, or about one-ninth of the whole, were not suffering from any of the forms of rheumatism, bat were such cases as are ordinarily met with in hospitals. On the average of the 31 years the patients remained under treatment nearly 24 days; and 45,520 cases of rheumatism, embracing every conceivable variety of this obstinate disease, were thus extensively relieved by the medical agency of the Buxton mineral waters. In 1879-81 the whole of the pile of buildings taken for hospital purposes was brought into occupation and entirely re-arranged, the interior circular area of half an acre roofed over, and the remainder of the stables removed from the neighbourhood of the building at a cost of £36,000, of which £24,000 was granted by the governors of the Cotton Districts Convalescent Fund, on the condition of their having a prior claim to the beds in the additional wards: in front of the hospital are extensive pleasure grounds, the gift of the Duke of Devonshire K.G. and pleasantly diversified with walks and shrubberies. In recognition of the services of Dr. Robertson (chairman of the committee of management), a noble clock tower was erected over the principal entrance of the hospital in 1882, at a cost of £1,118 18s. 6d. to which the Duke of Devonshire contributed the sum of £200, and also presented a clock with Cambridge chiming apparatus and four illuminated dials, at a cost of £500, the expense of lighting this clock during the hours of night has been undertaken by the Local Board. Several hydropathic establishments have been founded here. A handbook to Buxton and the Peak of Derbyshire and a succinct guide to the use of the waters has been published by William Henry Robertson M.D. chairman of and consulting physician to the Devonshire Hospital and Buxton Bath Charity : the season commences in May and ends in October, during which period the number of visitors said to be in the place at one time is between 8,000 and 10,000. St. John the Baptist is an ecclesiastical parish formed out of Bakewell parish. The church, erected in 1811, is a rectangular modern edifice in the Classic style, consisting of nave only, with recesses on the north and south, a very fine but heavy portico over the eastern entrance, and a large cupola at the west end containing one bell : there is a noble pulpit of marble and alabaster, erected by subscription in 1867 to the memory of the late Rt. Rev. John George Trevor Spencer D.D. sometime bishop of Madras, and formerly incumbent of this parish, who died 16 July, 1866 : the reredos is also of marble : the baptistery and font, erected in 1866, are memorials to Dr. Dickson and his son, and there is a stained window, placed in 1886, to the memory of the Rev. R. P. Hull, a former vicar ; the church will hold about 1,000 persons. The register dates from the year 1719. The living is a vicarage with residence, in the gift of the Duke of Devonshire, tithe rent-charge £140, and 33 acres of glebe, gross yearly value £420, and held since 1877 by the Rev. William Malam M.A. late scholar of Caius College, Cambridge, and of Trinity College, Dublin, and surrogate. The old parish church, situated in Higher Buxton and erected in 1625, is supposed by some to have been dedicated to St. Anne and by others to St. John; it is a small and low rectangular building, consisting of nave, north porch and a western bell cote containing one bell : the font is of an unusual oblong shape: there is a monumental tablet, dated 1788, to William Wallace, and a carved oak reading desk of the 17th century ; the church was restored in 1885. The Rev. Edgar Lee T.A.K.C.L. has been curate in charge since 1891. The church of St. James the Great, situated in Higher Buxton and serving as a chapel of ease to the parish church, is a structure of lime ripping and ashlar stone in the Early Decorated style, erected at a cost of about £5,000, and consecrated in 1871, and consists of apsidal chancel, clerestoried nave of three bays, aisles, transept, baptistery, south porch and a central octagonal tower with spire : the pulpit is of marble and stone, with a carved figure of St. James, and there is a memorial window to Mrs. Eddy, wife of the late vicar : the church will hold about 800 persons. Trinity Episcopal Chapel in Hardwick Mount, erected in 1873 and enlarged in 1883, is a stone building in the Early English style, consisting of chancel and nave and small turret over the west gable: there are 400 sittings. The living is a perpetual curacy, gross yearly value derived from offertories, £300 with residence, and held since 1881 by the Rev. Conrad Samuel Green. St. Anne's Catholic Church in Terrace road is a small Early English building, erected in 1861, and will seat 200 persons, Rev. J. T. Hoeben priest. The Congregational church in Hardwick Mount is a building in the Decorated Gothic style, with a tower and spire at the south-west angle, and has 600 sittings. The Unitarian chapel in Hartington road, built in 1879, is in the Decorated style, and will seat 150 persons. There are Wesleyan chapels in Higher Buxton and Devonshire park: the former, in the Late Early English style with a pierced parapet, consists of nave and transept, and has about 500 sittings. Devonshire park chapel is a building in the Decorated style, and consists of chancel, nave and a tower with spire, and will seat 600. The Primitive Methodist chapel in London road, a building of Yorkshire ripping with ashlar dressings, and now (1890) in course of erection at an estimated cost of £1,800, is intended to hold 500 persons. The Town Hall, Public Free Library and public offices were erected in 1888-9 at the summit of St. Ann's Cliff, on the site of the old Market Hall, destroyed by fire in 1885, and were opened by the Rt. Hon. the Marquess of Hartington P.C., M.P., LL.D. in June 1889 ; they form a handsome building of stone in the Classic style, from designs by Mr. William Pollard, architect, of Manchester, and were built at a total cost of nearly £12,000; the north front of the building contains on the first floor a board room, committee rooms, town clerk's and surveyor's offices, on the ground floor accountant's, collector's, gas manager's and inspector's offices, and in the basement caretaker's rooms, apparatus for cooking and a workshop for the gas department : the east and south fronts comprise on the ground floor an arcade let off as shops, the public free library, at present containing 3,000 volumes, the reading room, art class and masonic rooms, with the necessary ante and cloak rooms ; on the first floor (over the arcade, free library &c.) is a large assembly room, with gallery, capable of seating 1,000 persons ; at each end are cloak and retiring rooms; the assembly room is also used by the county and justices' courts and the local board ; the tower over the south front was erected by public subscription, and the clock it contains was presented by the executive committee of the Lord Frederick Cavendish Memorial Fund; petty sessions are held fortnightly and the county court sits every alternate month either here or at Chapel-en-le-Frith, or New Mills. The old Court House, a plain stone building, situate in George street, contains, in addition to the Devonshire Estate Offices, one large room, in which religious services and public meetings are held. The mineral productions of the Peak (consisting chiefly of marbles and spars), are manufactured into various ornamental and useful articles, and largely sold. The Liberal Club has premises in Spring gardens, and numbers 150 members ; Messrs. Hampson Bros, hon. secs. The D Company, 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment) have head quarters in the town. To the north-west, standing on an eminence, locally in Fairfield and commanding views of the surrounding country, is Wye House Asylum, an institution for the care and treatment of the insane of the higher and middle classes of both sexes. The Local Board have erected, on the hill above the gas works, a sanatorium or hospital, with four wards so arranged as to isolate the various cases; the building further comprises nurses' and attendants' rooms, three bed rooms, bath room and lavatory ; and there are also ambulance stations, a mortuary and a disinfecting room, washhouse and ironing rooms, all fitted with the best modern appliances. Gisborne's charity of £5, left in 1818 by the Rev. Francis Gisborne, formerly rector of Staveley, is laid out in woollen or flannel and given to the poor; the interest derived from 41,000 bequeathed by the late Robert Broome esq. is in part applied to the Buxton & Burbage sunday and day schools, one half being distributed among the poor of the said places. In 1872 12 acres of land (given by the Duke of Devonshire for ever, under a legal conveyance) were enclosed by the Buxton Improvement Company Limited (now the Buxton Gardens Company Limited), by whom the estate was laid out as ornamental gardens, and a pavilion of iron and glass erected from designs by Mr. Edward Milner, of Sydenham, about 400 feet long and 50 feet wide ; with a terraced front, and grassy slopes and walks leading down to the Wye, which is crossed by two bridges; the projecting centre of the building, which forms an elongated cross, is partly occupied by a stage and orchestra and by reserved seats; an octangular addition, for concerts and balls, measuring over 100 feet in diameter and similarly constructed, was erected at the west end and opened to the public in August, 1876, and the internal space for promenade is now 600 feet in length, and capable of holding 2,000 people; in 1878 and again in 1884 the grounds were enlarged to cover a space of 24 acres, including a large lake; there is a reading and news room, well supplied, a skating rink and lawn tennis grounds : the river Wye takes a winding course through the gardens, falling occasionally over rock-work and forming artificial cascades: the band plays twice daily in the pavilion or gardens throughout the year, the latter containing a kiosk for outdoor performances : a very successful open Lawn Tennis Tournament is held every summer; in 1889 a large room for general and dramatic entertainments was erected on the north side of the pavilion buildings : the auditorium portion will hold 850 persons, and there is a large stage suitable for dramatic purposes, with convenient dressing rooms &c. In 1890 "The Serpentine," a piece of land adjoining the gardens, was presented to the town by the Duke of Devonshire K.G. It is 34 acres in extent, well wooded and intersected by the Wye, and affords a pleasant retreat free to the public. Fairs for cattle are held in the market ground at Higher Buxton on monday before Old Candlemas day, April Ist, May and monday before the second wednesday in September and the 28th of October; when April Ist, May 2nd, or October 28th falls on sunday, the fair is held on the saturday preceding. The Duke of Devonshire K.G. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The geological formation of Buxton is characterised by millstone grit to the north and west of the town, and limestone to the south and east. The land is chiefly used for grazing purposes. One mile from the town is a great natural cavern, in the carboniferous limestone, called "Poole's Hole," visited by Mary Queen of Scots during her sojourn at Buxton ; it contains numerous very fine specimens of the stalagmite, stalactite and crystalline formations, and is now lighted with gas; many interesting relics, discovered in the cavern, are exhibited in a museum close at hand, and include British and Roman remains; near to it is Diamond Hill, so called from a species of quartz found there, and known by the name of Buxton diamond. Axe Edge, 3 miles south-west from Buxton, is 1,751 feet above the level of the sea, and is the source of four rivers which issue from it in opposite directions—the Dove and the Wye flowing into the Humber, and the Dane and Goyt into the Mersey; 2 miles further on is the "Cat and Fiddle," a wayside public-house, much frequented by visitors on account of the extensive views to be obtained in the neighbourhood ; wagonettes run to both these places from Buxton several times daily. At Coomb's Moss, 3 miles north from Buxton, are the remains of ancient military works : the Marble Stone, a rock of about 280 feet long and 80 broad, rising about 3 feet above the surface, is about 3 miles on the road still called Bathamgate. Within short distances are Chee Tor (a mass of rocks rising to the height of 300 feet from the river Wye, which washes its base), Ashwood Dale with Lover's Leap, Miller's Dale, Raven's Torr, Monsal Dale, Cressbrook and the Dale of Goyt. The river Wye is strictly preserved, and affords excellent trout-fishing. During the season daily excursions are made by four horse coaches, char-a-bancs and wagonettes to places of interest in the neighbourhood; a large number of bath chairs are on hire at ranks situated in several thoroughfares of the town. The resident population of Buxton Local Board District in 1881 was 6,025. The district includes parts of the township of Buxton, Fairfield and Hartington Upper Quarter. The acreage is 1,823 ; rateable value £31,494. The resident population of Buxton township in 1861, with King's Sterndale, Cowdale and Staden, was 1,877; and in 1881 was 3,984. Official Establishments, Local Institutions &c. Post, M. O. & T. O., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office. —John Spelt, postmaster DISPATCHES OF LETTERS &c. :— Local country posts & Ist town delivery, 6.20 a.m. (registered until g p.m. previous day); North of England, Scotland, Ireland, Manchester & N. Wales, 8.45 a.m. (registered until 8.15 a.m.) ; London, Foreign mails & South of England, Derby, Birmingham &c. 10 a.m. (registered until 9.45 a.m.) ; Manchester & the North, Crewe &c. 10.304.m. (registered until ro.15 a.m.) ; Manchester & the North, 1 p.m. (extra stamp, 1.5 p.m. 5 registered until 12.45 p.m.) ; London & South, Foreign mails, Derby, Birmingham &c. Bakewell & Matlock, 1.20 p.m. (registered until 1.5 p.m.); Manchester & Lancashire & 3rd town delivery, 3.20 p.m. (registered until 3.5 p.m.); Manchester & Lancashire, 5.15 p.m. (registered until 4.45 p.m.); Bakewell & 4th town delivery, 7.25 p.m. (registered until 7 p.m.) ; London & all parts, night mail, 7.45 p m. (3d. extra 8 p.m. ; registered until 7.30 p.m.). SUNDAYS.—London & all parts, 7.35 p.m. (registered until 10 a.m). DISPATCH OF PARCELS.—Manchester & North, Scotland & Ireland, 10.30 a.m. ; all parts, 12.50 p.m. ; Manchester & North, Scotland & Ireland, 4.45 p.m.; Derby, Birmingham, Manchester & North, Ireland, 7 p.m. ; London & all parts, 8 p.m. No parcels business transacted on sundays. TOWN DELIVERIES, LETTERS &c :—
Fairfield, 8.30 & 9.40 a.m, 12.40, 2.30, 4.30, 6.45 & 7.20 p.m Hr. Buxton, 8 & 9.40 a.m. 12.40, 2.15, 4.30, 7 & 7.30 p.m Burbage, 8 a.m. 12.30 & 6.45 p.m Parcel Post deliveries at 7, 9.30 & 11 a.m. & 4 & 7.30 p.m N.B.—On sunday there is one delivery only by town postman, commencing at 7.30 a.m. & on that day callers, letters are delivered at the counter from 7.30 to 10 a.m. during which time letters &c. can be registered & postage stamps obtained Irish night mail delivered to callers only, 9.40 to 10 a.m M. O., P. O., S. B., License, Annuity & Insurance Business : Money orders are issued & paid, savings bank, government annuity & insurance business transacted & inland revenue licenses granted, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. ; on saturdays, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. (week days only) Postal orders are issued from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. & paid from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m : Money order, postal order, savings bank, annuity & insurance business is not transacted, nor are licenses granted on sundays, Christmas days or Good fridays Postal Telegraph Office open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays & from 8 to 10 a.m, on sundays; also on sundays during June, July, August & September, 5 to6 p.m County Magistrates (Resident) for Petty Sessional Division of Buxton. Baker John esq. The Gables Cooke Henry esq. Edge Moor Darwin Reginald esq. The Fern Hubbersty Henry Alfred esq. Burbage Robertson William Henry esq. M.D. The Square Shaw Henry esq. White Hall Shipton William Parker esq. The Square Clerk to Magistrates, Jsph. William Taylor, Hardwick ter Petty sessions are held fortnightly, at 12 o'clock on saturdays, at the Town hall, & for indictable offences every tuesday. The following townships are included in the petty sessional division : Buxton, Fairfield, Wormhill & Hartington Upper Quarter. Local Board. The Board meet at the Town hall, every friday fortnight, at 7.30 p.m †Barnard George Francis, Bread walk, chairman †Milligan Edward Chambers, Clifford lodge, vice-chairman †Harrison J. E. St. Anns †Woodruff William, 27 South street †Yates John William, 1 Scarsdale place, Market place ‡Fisher G. Wye cottage, Burbage ‡Gladwin Joseph, Hardwick square north ‡Hulme Robert, 42 Spring gardens *Cooper Thomas, Ford bank, London road *Lanson J. H. Old hall *Willoughby John, Corbar road Marked thus † to retire in 1891. Marked thus ‡ retire in 1892. Marked thus * retire in 1893. Clerk, Josiah Taylor, Town hall Treasurer, Samuel Taylor, Sheffield & Rotherham Bank Medical Officer of Health, Frederick Turner, Grafton house Surveyor & Waterworks Engineer, Jsph, Hague C.E. Town hall Gas Engineer & Manager, George Smedley, Town hall Librarian, William Charles Plant, Town hall Inspector of Nuisances, Markets & Hackney Carriages, T.A. Croghan, Broad walk Collector, Joseph W. Pearson, Town hall Assistant Collector, John Willoughby, jun. Town hall The Board meet every friday fortnight at the Town hall at 7.30 p.m Public Establishments. County Court, His Honor W. Barber Q.C. judge; Richard Brown, Hardwick street, registrar & high bailiff; for other particulars, see "Chapel-en-le-Frith" Devonshire Hospital & Buxton Bath Charity, His Grace the Duke of Devonshire K.G. patron ; honorary medical staff— consulting physicians, W. H. Robertson M.D. & Frank K. Dickson F.R.C.P.Edin. ; consulting surgeon, W. P. Shipton; medical officers, Robert Bennett M.D. Frederick Turner, Arthur Shipton F.R.C.S. & A. O. Hazlewood ; dental surgeon, J. E. Sutton L.D.S. House surgeon, W. Ring L.R.C.P. ; assistant house surgeon, F. W. Salter L.R.C.P.; Joseph Taylor, secretary; Henry Brailsford, steward ; Mrs. Brailsford, matron Fire Engine Station, Market street Liberal Club, Spring gardens, Messrs. Hampson Bros. hon. secs Local Board Sanatorium Old Court House, George street Police Station, Fountain street, Saml. David Gill, inspector Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment) 2nd Volunteer Battalion (D company), Lieut. A. Brown Stamp Office, Devonshire colonnade, William D. Sutton, distributor Town Hall, Public Free Library & Public Offices, St. Ann's cliff, Joseph Shelmerdine, caretaker Buxton Horse Show Society, Frank Drewry esq. chairman; H. Jackson, sec Public Officers. Assessor & Collector of Rates & Queen's Taxes, J. G. Bramwell, Town hall Certifying Factory Surgeon & Public Vaccinator Buxton district, Chapel-on-le-Frith union, Arthur Shipton F.R.C.S. Edin. 2 The Square Coroner for High & Low Peak, Charles Davis, Glossop ; deputy, Sydney Taylor, The Grove Medical Officer of Health, Buxton Urban District, F. Turner, Grafton house Town Crier, Robert Turner, 36 High street Vestry Clerk, J. W. Pearson, Town hall Assistant Overseer, William Bentley, Burlington road Places of Worship, with times of Services. St. John the Evangelist Parish Church, Rev. William Malam M.A. vicar; Rev. George Frederic Reynolds M.A. & Rev. Robert Brooks Egan B.A. curates ; 8, 11, 3 & 6.30; 10 & 5 daily St. Ann, Rev. Edgar Lee T.A.K.C.L. Curate-in-charge ; 8 & 10.30 & 11.15 a.m. ; 6.30 p.m. ; daily, 8.30 a.m. (except thurs. 10 a.m.) & 5 p.m St. James the Great Chapel of Ease, Higher Buxton ; 11 & 7 Trinity Episcopal Chapel, Hardwick mount, Rev, Conrad S. Green, minister; 11 & 6.30; thurs. 7 p.m St. Anne's Catholic, Terrace road, Rev. J.T. Hoeben, priest ; 8 & 10.45 a.m. & 6.30 p.m. ; daily, 7.30a.m. ; fri. 7-30 p.m Catholic Apostolic, Darwin street, 10.30 & 6.30 Congregational, Hardwick Mount, Rev. R. R. Rew, minister; 10,30 & 6.30; wed. 7.30 p.m Primitive Methodist, London road, Rev. 1. J. Hardy, minister; 10,30 & 6.30; thurs. 7.30 p.m Unitarian, Hartington road, Rev. Cowley Smith; 11 & 7 Wesleyan, Devonshire park & Higher Buxton, Rev. T. H. Horrell; 10.30 & 6.30; wed. 7.30 p.m Schools. Buxton College, founded in 1673, is endowed with about £87 yearly, chiefly derived from lands in the neighbourhood : the buildings comprise school premises for 80 scholars & a master's house, erected in 1881 under the provisions of a scheme formulated by the Charity Commissioners, & are pleasantly situated on an eminence near the town, constituting part of the school estate of 15 acres, commanding extensive views of the surrounding country ; the foundation has been re-established under the scheme as a middle-class grammar school, with six scholarships, each tenable for three years, two being awarded each year to boys educated in some public elementary school in Buxton: the head master receives 40 boarders on terms & regulations approved by the governors : the inclusive fees are £12 year: the management of the school is confided to a body of governors ; Richard Archibald Little M.A., LL.D. head master; Mr. Josiah Taylor, Town hall, clerk to the governors A School Board of 5 members was formed in 1875; Abraham Brown, Hardwick terrace, clerk to the board ; John Pearson, 10 Darwin street, attendance officer Board, Silverlands, erected in 1876, at a cost of £6,500, for 260 boys, 230 girls & 160 infants ; average attendance, 151 boys, 147 girls & 117 infants; Edward Hall, master ; Miss Lydia Adcock, mistress ; Miss Sarah Rhodes, infants' mistress Catholic (mixed & infants'), Hardwick terrace, built in 1887, for 110 children ; average attendance, 56 ; Mrs. Elizabeth Gorton, mistress Newspapers. Buxton Advertiser & List of Visitors, C. F. Wardley, proprietor, 9 Hall bank ; published sat. & wed. during season Buxton Herald, Sutton & Sons, proprietors & publishers, Hardwick square south & Devonshire colonnade ; published wed Buxton Chronicle, William Shepherd, proprietor, Quadrant ; published Friday High Peak News, C. F. Wardley, proprietor ; office, 9 Hall bank ; published every friday for saturday Railway Stations. London & North Western Railway, Arthur Moore, station master Midland Railway, Samuel Jacques, station master Conveyance. Omnibuses to meet all the trains, from the Shakespeare stables, Spring gardens ; W. Barson, proprietor Carriers. Jas. Smedley, from Longnor, on sat. to Cheshire Cheese inn William Belfield, from Warslow, via Hartington, on sat. to Cheshire Cheese inn Thomas Thompson, from Longnor, on tues. to Cheshire Cheese inn John Tunnicliff, from Flash, on tues. thurs. & sat. to Cheshire Cheese inn William Bonsal, from Monyash, on sat. to Sun inn Thomas Bunting, from Flagg, on sat. to Sun inn William Fox, to Macclesfield, on sat Thomas Ball, from Reapsmoor, on sat. to 'Queen's Head' Isaac Gee, from New road, on sat. to 'Queen's Head' Mrs. Pickford, from Sheen, on sat. to 'Queen's Head' Isaac Riley, from Longnor, on tues. thurs. & sat. to 'Queen's Head' [A portion of the town of Buxton is in Fairfield parish, which see for names of residents not within Buxton Local Board District.] [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation are as they appear in the Directory.]
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More on site information about Buxton and the surrounding area:  Derbyshire's Parishes, 1811 (Parishes B)Wolley Manuscripts, Derbyshire for more
information about Derbyshire deeds, pedigrees, documents and willsThe Vernon Lamb Archive. Two sections of the archive contain photograph's of soldiers, mostly Sherwood Foresters, who were billeted at Buxton's Empire Hotel in 1914-15. Go to: World War
One Soldiers, Groups of 1, 2 or 3. Portraits to send home to the family.World War
One Soldiers, Groups in the early stages of the War. |
