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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Curbar, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - pp.104-105 |
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CURBAR is a township and small village, formed into a parish
in 1869, from the parish of Baslow St. Anne; it includes the townships
of CALVER and FROGGAT, and is 5 miles north-east from Bakewell, in
the Western division of the county, High Peak hundred, Bakewell Union,
petty sessional division and county court district, rural deanery
of Eyam, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. The nearest
railway station is at Hassop (4 miles south) on the Midland line The
church of All Saints, built in 1868, is a small edifice of stone,
in a modem Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays,
south aisle, south porch, and a small western turret containing 1
bell. There are
300 sittings. The register dates from the year 1868. The living is
a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £86, net yearly value
£237, with residence, in the gift of the vicar of Baslow St.
Anne, and held since 1870, by the Rev. Thomas Fosbrooke Salt B.A.
of Oriel College, Oxford: the vicarage is on the hillside immediately
above the church. Here is a Reformed Wesleyan chapel. Hulme Cliff
College, situated here, is in connection with the East London Institute
for Home and Foreign Missions: about 50 young men receive a three
years' course of education here before entering upon missionary work;
offices, 53 Bow road, London E. The Duke of Rutland G.C.B., P.C. is
lord of the manor and principal
landowner. The land consists of grazing and moor. The soil is loamy,
with a considerable mixture of gritstone ; subsoil, sand.
Parish Clerk, Edward Barnsdall. POST & M. O. O., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, Calver.-Ephraim Slinn, receiver. Letters are received from Sheffield at 7.45 a.m. ; dispatched at 5.45 p.m. Baslow St. Anne is the nearest telegraph office. WALL LETTER Box, Froggatt, cleared at 5 p.m National Schools. with master's house near church, & close to Calver bridge over the Derwent : erected in 1871 for 90 boys & girls, & 48 infants ; average attendance, 89 boys & girls, & 21 infants; Edward Barnsdall, master CARRIER to SHEFFIELD.-Joseph Harrison, from Curbar, saturday, returning same day Calver is a village and township, 2 miles north-west from Baslow St. Anne. The charities amount to about £2 8s. per annum. Here is a Primitive Methodist chapel built in 1860. The extensive cotton spinning and doubling mills of Messrs. Tolson and Gibb are situated at Calver bridge, in a sheltered spot, on the river Derwent, which is crossed by a modern stone bridge of three arches to Stony Middleton. The trustees of the late Col. Charles Leslie K.H. who died in 1870, are lords of the manor and own all the land. The soil is gravelly loam, on limestone. The chief crop is hay, and some land is used for grazing. Froggatt is a township and village, 3 miles north from Baslow St. Anne, and 7 north-north-east from Bakewell, on the east bank of the Derwent, here crossed by an ancient stone bridge of two arches. Froggatt Edge is a steep ridge of gritstone rock, rising to a great height to the eastward. Here is a Wesleyan chapel built in 1834. The Duke of Rutland G.C.B is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil varies, some of it is loamy and a portion clay; sub-soil, gritstone. The chief crops are oats and hay. Curbar. Guinness Rev. Henry Grattan D.D. Rattray William, Hulme Cliff college Salt Rev. Thos. Fosbrooke B.A. Vicarage COMMERCIAL. Alsop Edward, farmer Barratt Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer Buxton Sarah Ann (Mrs.), farmer Elliott Sarah (Mrs.), farmer Ellis Abraham, farmer Ellis James, farmer Ellis John, quarry owner & farmer Ellis Joseph, farmer Froggatt Thomas, farmer & shopkeeper Hallam William, beer retailer & farmer Hallam William, farmer Harrison Joseph, carrier Hulme Cliff College (Rev. H.G. Guinness D.D. founder & hon. director; William Rattray, resident head master) Marples Thomas, shopkeeper Peat David, gamekeeper to the Duke of Rutland Potter Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Rowbotham Thomas Lee, farmer Siddall George, farmer & shopkeeper Wild Robert, farmer Wilson James, farmer, Ford Worrall Thomas, farmer Calver. Broomhead Miss Broomhead Mrs. Calver Sough Bromley Mrs. Gibb George, Calver Lodge COMMERCIAL. Bennett Martha (Mrs.), beer retailer Birtles George, farmer Blagden John, farmer Bradwell Rebecca (Mrs.), Bull's Head P.H Broomhead Mary (Mrs.), baker & confctnr Eades William, bookseller & draper Froggatt George, farmer Froggatt George, jun. farmer Gilbert Ann (Mrs.), farmer Gill William, grocer, draper & boot dealer Greaves John, blacksmith Gregory Walter, farmer & quarry owner Gregory Roger, farmer Gregory Thomas, farmer Millington Joshua, quarry owner Mosley Joseph, Eyre Arms P.H. & butcher Richardson Peter, farmer & miller (water) Robinson Robt. Derwentwater Arms P.H Sherwin Seth, farmer Slinn Ephraim, boot maker, Post office Somersett John, carpenter & cabinet ma Tolson & Gibb, cotton spinners & doublers, Calver mills Somerset Robert, farmer & assist. oversr Wild Joseph, farmer Wild Samuel, farmer Winterbottom John, farmer Froggatt. Swann Mrs. Moorlands, Froggatt edge COMMERCIAL. Buxton Charles, farmer Carnall Thomas, farmer & carter Ellis Francis, mason Fletcher John, stone mason Gill Joseph (executors of), farmers & landowners Gregory Richard, nurseryman Gregory Thomas, farmer Morton Robert, stone mason & farmer Mosley Joseph, farmer, Hay wood Outram John, Chequers P.M. & farmer Pybus Charles, farmer, Froggatt edge Rollinson George, farmer [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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