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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Lullington, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.249 |
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LULLINGTON is a township, village and parish, on the southern
border of the county, 7 miles south-east from Burton-upon-Trent, 7
north-east from Tamworth and 4 south-west from Gresley station on
the Derby, Burton and Birmingham section of the Midland railway, in
the Southern division of the county, hundred or Repton and Gresley,
Swadlincote petty sessional division,
Burton-upon-Trent union, rural deanery of Repton, archdeaconry of
Derby and diocese of Southwell. The church of All Saints is an ancient
building of grey sandstone, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle,
vestry and a western tower with octagonal spire containing a clock
and 6 bells, five or which were cast in 1778 from the original ring
of three and a sixth added in 1786 : the tower and spire are all that
remain of the old work, dating from the beginning or the Decorated
period, c. 1300; of the church as reconstructed in 1778, the
chancel and north wall of the nave still exist: the spire is of peculiar
construction, several feet of the lower part being nearly perpendicular
and forming a kind of lantern ; a part or the spire was taken down
and rebuilt in 1766 at a cost of £45 4s. 11d. and in 1861 it
was restored at a cost of £500 ; shortly afterwards the south
aisle was built at a cost of £1,726 : the
east and west windows are stained: there are 216 sittings. The register
dates from the year 1560,and its earliest volume, of which a clear
transcript has been made, is bound in an illuminated cover. The living
is a vicarage, gross yearly value £112, including 63 acres of
glebe, value £81, with residence, in the gift of the Hon. Mrs.
Colvile, and held since 1873 by the Rev. Eustace King B.A. of Christ
Church, Oxford. The charities amount to £2 6s. 6d. yearly. The
village is lighted with gas from works belonging to the Hon. Mrs.
Colvile, of Lullington Hall, lady of the manor and principal landowner.
The soil is rich loam; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley,
oats and roots. The area is 1,807 acres ; rateable value, £2,879;
the population in 1881 250. Parish Clerk, John White. POST OFFICE.-Charles Fenton, receiver. Letters arrive from Burton-upon-Trent at 8 a.m. ; dispatched at S p.m. week days & 10.15 a.m. on sundays. The nearest money order office is at Coton-in-the-Elms & telegraph office at Overseal School (mixed), erected in 1845, for 50 children; average attendance, 33 ; Mrs. Mary Ann Eliza Durant, mistress Colvile The Hon. Mrs. Lullington hall King Rev. Eustace B.A. Vicarage Berridge Charles, joiner Eardley Daniel, farmer, Westbrook farm Gilbert Joseph, farmer, Woodfields Hackett William, farmer Lawton Frederick, farmer, Home farm Lee John George, grocer Moxon John Payne, farmer, Lady Leys Radford William, Colvile Arms P.H. & blacksmith [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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