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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Horsley, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.233 |
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HORSLEY is an extensive parish, containing the villages and
townships of HORSLEY and KILBURNE, in the Ilkeston division of the
county, hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, Smalley petty sessional
division, Belper union, Belper and Ilkeston county court district,
rural deanery of Duffield, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell.
Horsley Woodhouse has now been made a separate parish, and is given
separately, and Kilburne also will be found under a separate heading.
Horsley is on the Derby and Alfreton road, 6 miles north-east from
Derby, half a mile from Coxbench station on the Derby and Ripley branch
of the Midland railway, and 2 miles north-east from Duffield. The
church of St. Clement, seated conspicuously on a height, consists
of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles with arcades of three bays and
a western rower with lofty broach spire, containing a clock and 4
bells, the tone of the tenor bell being exceptionally sweet; the 2nd,
3rd and 4th are respectively dated 1620, 1660 and 1603 : the tower
is a good composition of the Decorated period, dating from the middle
of the 14th century, and at the angles are emblems of the Evangelists:
the church underwent considerable alteration about 1450, when the
walls of the nave were raised, and the clerestory windows inserted
; the chancel was rebuilt and lighted with Perpendicular windows,
and square-headed traceried windows of like character inserted in
the aisles : the chancel, nave and south aisle have battlements and
pinnacles, and the north aisle a plain parapet; the south porch is
also embattled, and has a well executed crucifix on the gable: the
font is an octagon of Perpendicular date, boldly carved with roses
and foliage : the chancel retains three canopied sedilia, and there
is a small piscina in the south aisle, and a double one in the north
aisle, these aisles being prolonged one bay eastward, and opening
into
the chancel by arches supported on corbels of Decorated character:
the church was restored in 1858-60, at a cost of £2,221: a memorial
stained window was presented by J. L. Davenport esq. : there are 350
sittings, 200 being free. The register, which is in a fair condition,
dates from the year 1558 for all entries, but there is a blank from
1643 to 1660. The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge
£242, with 1 acre of glebe with residence, in the gift of Robert
Sacheverell Sitwell esq. and held since 1870 by the Rev. Grammer Thompson
M.A. of Lincoln College, Oxford. There is a Wesleyan chapel here.
A charity of £7 5s. left in 1817 by the Rev. Francis Gisborne,
sometime rector of Staveley, is distributed by the vicar in clothing;
John Lockoe left in 1676 a portion of the rent of 12 acres of land,
now averaging about £6 yearly, for the poor; Hunter's charity
of £7 yearly is also given to the poor. A castle, built in the
13th century, formerly stood here, but has long since been destroyed.
Robert Sacheverell Wilmot Sitwell esq. J.P. of Stainsby House, Horsley
Woodhouse, is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil
is sand, clay and loam ; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are potatoes,
wheat, oats, barley and about two-thirds pasture. The acreage of the
township is 1,295 ; rateable value, £2,691 ; the population
in 1881 was 383 in the township, and 2,746 in the parish. COXBENCH is partly in this parish and partly in Holbrooke; full particulars and names of residents are given with Holbrooke. Parish Clerk, Jesse Peat. Letters through Derby; nearest money order & telegraph office at Little Eaton National School (mixed), erected in 1828, for 150 children ; average attendance, 120 ; Joseph Priest, master Sitwell Edward-Sacheverel Wilmot J.P.Horsley hall Thompson Rev. Grammer M.A. Vicarage COMMERCIAL. Bailey Thomas, brick maker Foulke James, farmer, Park Gate farm Foulke John, farmer Hill Henry, farmer Holmes William, blacksmith Knifton Enoch, farmer, Horsley grange Middleton Joseph, farmer Oates William, Coach & Horses P.H Parker Mary (Miss), shopkeeper Parker Howard, Ship P.H Peat Jesse, farmer, & assistant overseer Richardson Martha (Mrs.), farmer, Lodge farm Seal Emma (Mrs.), farmer Walters William, wheelwright Woodward Jas. farmer, Horsley park Yeomans Daniel, bricklayer [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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