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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Holmesfield, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - pp.231-232 |
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HOLMESFIELD is a township and parish, formed in 1857 from the
parish of Dronfield, but anciently in the parish of Bakewell, and
is 2½ miles south-west of Dronfield station on the main line
of the Midland railway and 7 north-west from Chesterfield, in the
North Eastern division of the county, Scarsdale hundred, Eckington
petty sessional division, Chesterfield union and county court district,
rural deanery of Dronfield, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell.
The church of St. Swithun, rebuilt in 1826 on the site of an old chapel,
is a plain building of stone, consisting of nave, with north and west
galleries and an embattled western tower with pinnacles containing
one bell : there are 400 sittings. The register of baptisms dates
from 1724, marriages 1720-53, burials 1724, but is very imperfect
at the commencement. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £106,
including 72½ acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of
trustees, and held since 1887 by the Rev. Charles Bradshaw. Here is
a Wesleyan chapel, and there are several small charities, viz. £6
11s. from the Gisborne charity for flannel and two benefactions of
£10 each for bread. Holmesfield
is an ancient manor: and at the time or the Domesday Survey was in
the hands of the Deincourts : at the dissolution of the monasteries,
the tithes (then in the hands or the Prior of Lenton, Nottingham)
were granted by Henry VIII. to William Coffin, on whose execution
in the following reign for participating in the Devonshire risings,
they were given by Edward VI. to "his trusty friend and counsellor
Sir William de Cavendish." The Duke of Rutland G.C.B. is lord
of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is loam ; subsoil,
various. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, hay, turnips and
a few potatoes. The area is 4,485 acres ; rateable value, £2,882;
the population in 1881 was 492. Parish Clerk, Samuel Bennett. POST OFFICE.-Joseph Revill, receiver. Letters arrive from Chesterfield at 10.10 a.m. & are dispatched at 4.25 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Dronfield National Endowed School, erected 1834, for 100 children ; average attendance, 64; the master receives £22 yearly for the free instruction of 22 boys; Geo. Garland, master Bradshaw Rev. Charles, Vicarage Carpenter Edward, Milnthorpe Edwards Thomas George, Fanshaw ldg Silcock Daniel, Rose hill Walker Mrs. Horsley gate COMMERCIAL. Andrew Thomas, farmer, Mooredge frm Askew John, Angel P.H Bingham Thos. farmer, Fanshaw gate Booker Peter, wood agent Booker William, gamekeeper to Duke of Rutland, Thickwood lodge Brougham William Hutchinson, Peacock P.H. farmer, Owler bar Crawshaw James, Robin Hood P.H. & farmer, Lydgate Crawshaw John Hy. farmer, Storth ho Creswick George, farmer, Lydgate Damms Henry, farmer, Unthank Dunstan Joseph Shepherd, beer retailer Elliott John, carpenter & wheelwright Elliott Frederick, assistant overseer & surveyor of highways Frost George, farmer, Moorwoods Gregory Alfred, farmer, Birks Gregory James, farmer, Fanshaw gate Haslam Sam, farmer, Milnthorpe Haslam Wm. beer retailer, Minlthorpe Hattersley Mary (Mrs.), shpkpr. Commn Hellewell Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Fox la Hellewell Thomas, farmer, Knowles frm Hill George, tanner, Millthorpe Holmes John, blacksmith Hopkinson Charles, farmer Key Alfred, farmer, Cordwell farm Levick George, farmer & miner (steam & water), Millthorpe Lowe Herbert, farmer, Unthank hall Lowe Samuel, farmer & landowner, Horsleygate Matther William, farmer, Cartledge Morgan Anthony, farmer, Cartledge Oldfield Robert, farmer, Olderlie Packard Jonathan Pinder, farmer, Woodthorpe Pearson Samuel, farmer, Unthank Pinder Samuel, farmer, Moorwood Revill Joseph, shoe maker, Post office Sharpe William, farmer, Horsleygate Silcock John, farmer, Bank Smedley Henry, farmer, Woodthorpe Spittlehouse James Henry, farmer Spittlehouse Mark, George & Dragon P.H. & farmer & butcher Wain Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Millthorpe Wilkinson Edward, farmer, Bank Wilkinson John, farmer, Adam Field Wilkinson Mary (Mrs.), beer retailer Wolstenholme Geo. farmer, Horsleygate Wragg John, farmer, Owler bar [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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