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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Foremark and Ingleby, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.209 |
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| FOREMARK is a parish,
near the river Trent, 6½ miles south-south-west from Derby,
3½ north-east from Willington station on the Derby and Burton-on-Trent
branch of the Midland railway, comprising the townships of FOREMARK
and INGLEBY, in the southern division of the county, hundred of Repton
and Gresley, Repton petty sessional division, Burton-upon-Trent union,
county court district of Derby. The church of St. Saviour is a small
and plain building of stone in a debased Perpendicular style, consisting
of chancel, nave and a low embattled western tower containing 4 bells,
the two first dated 1668 and the others 1660 and 1662 respectively
: the chancel is divided from the nave by a high glazed oak screen
of singular design: the communion table is a slab of grey marble,
measuring 5 feet by 3 feet 6 inches, supported on a wooden frame and
is the identical table consecrated by Bishop Hacket : the font, apparently
Early English, consists of a bowl on a pillar-shaped base : a gallery
was erected in 1819 at the west end : on the tower and the south exterior
wall of the church are sun-dials, one of which is dated 1650: there
are 170 sittings, The register dates from the year 1662. The living
is a vicarage, gross yearly value £102, derived partly from
the Foremark estate, in the gift of Col. Sir Francis Burdett bart.
and held since 1880 by the Rev. Thomas Orrell, of St. Aidans, who
resides at Ticknall. Foremark Hall, built in 1762 and the seat of
Col. Sir Francis Burdett bart. D.L., J.P. lord of the manor and principal
landowner, is a fine stone mansion, surrounded by beautiful trees
and shrubs; in the grounds is a lake of considerable dimensions. Soil,
various; subsoil, sand and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley,
oats and roots. The area of the township is 1,135 acres ; rateable
value, £1,539; the population in 1881 was 61 in the township
and 165 in the parish; 50 acres have been added to Foremark from adjoining
parishes. Sexton, Joseph Pearson. Letters through Derby arrive at Stanton-by-Bridge & thence by messenger arrive at 9 a.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Melbourne ; the nearest post-office at Stanton Ingleby is a township in this parish, 7 miles south from Derby. Colonel Sir Francis Burdett bart. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The area is 866 acres ; rateable value, £1,345; the population in 1881 was 104. Sir Francis Burdett's School, erected in 1835, for 26 infants ; average attendance, 22 ; Mrs. Marian Docker, mistress. The elder children of this place attend Ingleby & Stanton-by-Bridge schools Letters through Derby arrive at Stanton-by-Bridge & thence by messenger, arrive at 8,30 a.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Melbourne and the nearest post-office at Stanton Foremark. Burdett Cot. Sir Francis bart, D.L., J.P. Foremark hall Goodall John, farmer Hutchinson John, farmer, Foremark Park farm Matthews Wm.Jas. farmer, Bendall farm Ingleby. Coxon Joseph, farmer Mann William Augustus, farmer, Ingleby Hill farm Pearson Thomas, cowkeeper Poyser Richard, farmer Stephenson Edward, farmer Wright William, shoe maker [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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