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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Little Eaton, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - pp.192-193 |
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LITTLE EATON is a village, township and parish formed in 1863
from the parish of St. Alkmund, Derby, 3¼ miles north-north-east
from Derby and 4 south from Belper, in the Southern division of the
county, hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, Shardlow
union, Derby petty sessional division and county court district,
rural deanery of Duffield, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell.
There is a canal from Derby, and a railway station on the branch tine,
opened in 1856 and extending to Ripley, a distance of 6½ miles,
forming a junction a little south of the village with the North Midland
railway from Derby to Buxton. A small stream called "Bottlebrook"
runs through the village. The chapel of St Paul, rebuilt in 1791 is
a building of stone in imitation of the Norman style, consisting of
chancel, nave, aisles, with an arcade of four bays, south porch and
an embattled western tower containing 1 bell, hung in 1890 in place
of the former bell, cast in 1791, and weighing 8 cwt : previous to
its rebuilding it had been for some time in a ruinous condition, and
for a long time served as a blacksmith's shop: it was enlarged in
1837: a stained window was placed in the chancel in 1865, as a memorial
to John Tempest esq. and his wife, and in 1803 another was erected
to his son: there are 350 sittings. The register of baptisms dates
from the year 1813; of marriages from 1865, and of burials from 1814
; the earIier registers are kept at Derby. The living is a vicarage,
gross yearly value £270,
including 11 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the vicar
of St. Alkmund, Derby, and held since 1879 by the Rev. Charles James
Fox; the Rev. George Buck, of St. Bees, has been curate in charge
since 1889. There are Congregational and Free Methodist chapels. Tempest's
charity, of £6 3s. 10d. yearly, founded by will in 1861, provides
Christmas dinners for 24 poor people. Parker's charity, a rent-charge
of £1 yearly, payable by Lord Scarsdale, is also for the poor.
Here are two paper mills and some stone quarries. The principal landowners
are Mrs. SeIina Tempest, Herbert Strutt esq. the Ecclesiastical Commissioners
and Col. E. A. Noel D.L. J.P. The soil is sand; subsoil, sandstone.
The land is principally pasture. The acreage is 530; rateable value,
£5,427 ; the population in 1881 was 946. POST, M. O. & T. O., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, at Railway station.-Edward Sharpe, receiver. Letters through Derby arrive at 5 a.m. & 1.35 p.m. ; dispatched at 10.15 a.m. & 7.50 p.m A School Board of 7 members was formed in 1880 ; clerk to the board, J. B. Walker, Belper; Michael Fogerty, attendance officer Board school (mixed), erected in 1884, for 180 children ; average attendance, 135; Edwin Orford, master Railway Station. Edward Sharne, station master CARRIER TO DERBY:- Mrs. Wood, from Ripley, fri PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Buck Rev. George [curate-in-charge] Cudlip Joseph S. jun Currey Benjamin Scott, Eaton hill Dann Thomas, Woodland villa Fox Rev. Charles James, Vicarage Frith Miss, The Cottage Harvey Robert, Derwent house Jackson Henry Johnson Miss Noel Col. Edward Andrew D.L., J.P. The Outwoods [letters should be addressed Duffield] ; & Carlton & Junior Constitutional clubs, London s w Tatam Mrs. The Firs Tatam William John, Parks view Taylor John Tempest Mrs. Little Eaton house Thompson Mrs Turton Miss Walters Thomas Michael Wilmot Mrs. Edge hill [letters should be addressed Duffield] Williamson Mrs. The Poplars Wykes John Louth Wykes John Theodore B.A COMMERCIAL. Butler James, quarry master Crooks Jabez, butcher & farmer Cudlip & Sons Lim. paper manufacturers, Brook paper mills; London address, Wardrobe chambers, Queen Victoria street E C Denby Colliery Wharf (John Hill, agnt) Fox John, refreshment rooms Goodwin Frederick, shopkeeper Goodwin Samuel, jun. shopkeeper Hastie John, farmer Hickling William, shopkeeper Hill George, joiner Hill John, agent for W. D. N. Drury-Lowe esq. Denby colliery wharf Holland Mrs. Anchor inn Kerry John Garvis, Queen's Head P.H. & assistant overseer Kilburne Colliery Whrf. (Hy. Ingram, agt ) Little Eaton Co-operative Society (Frederick J. Birkinshaw, sec) Miles Jn. Thos. maltster, The Maltings Piggs William Henry, rate collector Pool Henry, blacksmith Pratt Thomas, grocer Rowland John, canal agent Salmon Sarah (Mrs.), farmer Sproull Thomas James, inland revenue officer, Parks view Stevenson J. H. & Son, bleachers Tatam John Joseph, farmer Tempest & Son, paper manufacturer Thums George, butcher Tomlinson Samuel, shoe maker Walker Joseph, New inn Wall Henry, tailor Walters Emily (Mrs.), farmer & joiner Walters Frederick William, florist Wansborough Henry, commrcl. traveller Weeder Andrew, commercial traveller Wykes John Theodore B.A. solicitor [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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