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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Donisthorpe, Derbyshire (with Oakthorpe) |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.184 |
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DONISTHORPE is a parish formed in 1838 from the civil parishes
of Church Gresley, Measham, and Stretton-en-le-Field, and Ashby-de-la-Zouch
and Seal, in Leicestershire, with a station on the Ashby and Nuneaton
joint line of the Midland and London and North Western railways, 114
miles from London, 3 south-west from Ashby-de-la-Zouch and 8 south-east
from Burton-upon-Trent, in the Southern division of the county of
Derby and the Western division of Leicestershire, hundreds of Repton,
Gresley, West Goscote, Swadlincote petty
sessional division, union and county court district of Ashby-de-la-Zouch,
rural deanery of Repton, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. DONISTHORPE and OAKTHORPE hamlets form a joint township in this ecclesiastical parish. The church of St. John, erected in 1838, is a building of grey sandstone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of nave, west porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing a clock and one bell : the nave was restored in 1889 at a cost of £350: there are 500 sittings, 200 being free, The register dates from the year 1838. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £300, including 17 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Southwell, and held since 1885 by the Rev. Edward Bertram Lavies T.A.K.C.L. Here are two Primitive Methodist chapels. A cemetery, containing 1½ acres of ground, was opened here in 1875, and is under the control of a burial board of 9 members. There is a colliery, worked by Messrs. Checkland, Son and Williams, and a brewery owned by Mr. William Field Cooper. The principal landowners are Lord Donington, Sir Mylles Cave-Brown-Cave bart. D.L., J.P. of Stretton-en-le-Field, Messrs. W. F. Cooper, S. Greaves, Drewry and some small freeholders. The soil is mixed; subsoil, chiefly clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area iS 1,162 acres; rateable value, including Oakthorpe, £6,011. The population for the township in 1881 was 1,494, and of the parish was 2,600. POST, M. O. & T. O., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.- Thomas Talbot, receiver. Letters arrive through Ashby-de-la-Zouch at 7 a.m.; dispatched at 5.45 p.m. on week days & arriving at 7.15 a.m. & dispatched at 11.45 a.m. on sundays National School (mixed), erected in 1830, for 66 children ; average attendance, 82 ; Miss Elizabeth Moore, mistress Railway Station, Isaac Lovell, station master Oakthorpe is a hamlet in the parish of Donisthorpe, hundreds of Repton and Gresley and West Goscote, union and county court district of Ashby-de-la-Zouch and 3 miles south-west from Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Here are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Reform chapels. Lord Donington is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are the Earl of Loudoun, Lord Donington, Thomas Wright esq. and the governors of Repton school. POST OFFICE.-Thos. Betteridge, receiver. Letters through Ashby-de-la-Zouch arrive at 7.30 a.m.; sundays 7.30 a.m.; dispatched at 5.20 p.m.; sundays, dispatched at 10.20 a.m. Donisthorpe is the nearest money order & telegraph office Wesleyan School (mixed), erected in 1875, for 108 children ; average attendance, 70 ; Alfred Baylis, master CARRIER TO ASHBY, Eli Cashmore, sat Donisthorpe. Cooper William Field Fowler John Walter Lavies Rev. Edward Bertram T.A.K.C.L. Vicarage Richardson Thomas COMMERCIAL. Bowley George, butcher Bowley William, Cave's Arms P.H Brown James, farmer Burton James, The Turk's Head P.H Cemetery (John Salisbury, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, clerk to the burial board) Checkland, Son & Williams, colliery proprietors, Donisthorpe colliery Cooper William Field, farmer & brewer Fowler John, farmer Gent Edward, brick maker & farmer Hunt Hannah (Mrs.), Bull's Head P.H Hunt William, shopkeeper, & agent for W. & A. Gilbey, wine & spirit mers Kirby Thomas, carpenter & builder Newbold Robert, assistant overseer Noon Joseph, rate collector Price William, farmer Smith John, beer retailer Talbot Thomas, blacksmith, Post office Taylor Henry, manager of Messrs. Checkland, Son & Williams' colliery Toon William, Masons' Arms P.H Turner John, butcher Whirledge Francis, Engine P.H Oakthorpe. Barnett George, farmer Betteridge Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper Betteridge Thomas, tailor, Post office Bird John, farmer Cashmore Eli, provision dealer Christian Thos. thrashing machine owner Fern William, plumber & glazier Massey Wilmot, grocer & farmer Moore James, shoe maker Orgill Thomas & Herbert, wheelwrights Sale George, school attendance officer Stewart George, farmer Talbot William, Shoulder of Mutton P.H. & blacksmith Thornley Charles, Holly Bush inn Toon Thomas, Steam Mill inn Toon William, farmer Tunnicliffe William, farmer Walker Francis, farmer Whetton Arthur, shopkeeper Woodward James, farmer [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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