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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Middleton by Wirksworth, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - pp. 265-6 |
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| MIDDLETON-BY-WIRKSWORTH
is a parish and considerable village, including IBLE and IVONBROOK
GRANGE townships, 1 mile north-by-west from Wirksworth, 9 miles
north-east from Ashborne and 2 south-west from Cromford station
on the Ambergate and Manchester section of the Midland railway,
in the Western division of the county, hundred, petty sessional
division and county court district of Wirksworth, union of Ashborne,
rural deanery of Wirksworth, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese
of Southwell. The church of the Holy Trinity, erected in 1839,
at a cost of £1,200, is an edifice
of stone ; it consists simply of a nave, with a small turret at the
west end, containing a
clock and one bell: the interior was restored and reseated in 1884-5,
at a cost of £800, and has 413 sittings, 362 being free. The
register dates from the year 1839. The living is a vicarage, tithe
rent-charge £8, gross yearly value about £300, including
1½ acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the vicar
of Wirksworth, and held since 1875 by the Rev. Edwin Cuthbert
Harward M.A. of Trinity College, Oxford. Here is a Congregational
chapel, built in 1786 ; Wesleyan, rebuilt in 1874, and Primitive
Methodist, rebuilt in 1870. The poor of this parish receive from
Bagshaw's Charity the sum of £14 2s. annually on the 4th
of November; £5 annually from Blackburn's Charity on New
Year's day; £2 5s. from the Rev. F. Gisborne's Charity on
the 1st of December and £4 2s annually from Bunting's Charity
in Easter week. The Hopton-Wood stone quarries of Messrs. Killer
Brothers, as well as several quarries of excellent marble and
many lead mines, are in this township. There is no manor, and
the land is the property of numerous small freeholders. The soil
is limestone; subsoil, limestone. The chief crops are grass. The
area of the township is 991 acres ; rateable value, £2,152
; the population in 1881 was 1,065, including Ible and Ivonbrooke
Grange. Parish Clerk, George Spencer. Ible is a township 2½ miles north-west, with a Primitive Methodist chapel. The land is the property of a number of small freeholders; the area is 424 acres ; rateable value £564; the population in 1881 was 50. Ivonbrook Grange (or GRANGE MILL) is a township, in that part of the parish of Middleton included in the hundred of High Peak and union of Bakewell, 3 miles north-west, and situate at the western extremity of the noted Via Gellia valley. G. H. Errington esq. of Merry Oak, Southampton, is impropriator of the great tithes : the vicar of Middleton receives a modus of £1 in lieu of vicarial tithe : Lord Scarsdale is sole proprietor of the land. The area is 417 acres ; rateable value, £398; the population in 1881 was 39. POST OFFICE, Middleton. -Joseph Doxey, postmaster. Letters arrive from Derby about 7.30 a.m. ; dispatched at 5.45 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Wirksworth Letters for Ible & Grange Mill are delivered every morning about 9 a.m. Winster is the nearest money order & telegraph office SCHOOLS :- National, Middleton, erected in 1851, for 170 children ; average attendance, 98 8oys & girls & 61 infants; Albert Barnes, master; Miss Emma Frances Barrow, infants' mistress Infant, Ivonbrook Grange, Mrs. Louisa Brown, mistress; the school will hold about 35 children; average attendance, 20 ; & is supported by the Duke of Rutland & Lord Scarsdale Middleton. Harward Rev. Edwin Cuthbert M.A. Vicarage Killer Adam Killer John Killer Joseph, Rose cottage Killer William, Ash villa Moore Michael Walker Mrs COMMERCIAL. Adams Job, farmer & mason Adams Robert, farmer & hay dealer Barnes John, farmer Birley John Richard, stone & monumental mason & sculptor Birley Samuel, grocer & mason Brace James, farmer Brailsford Joseph, plasterer Brooks Charles, farmer Brooks Isaac, farmer Brooks William, pork butcher Clayton Isaac, grocer & farmer Doxey Aaron, linen draper Doxey George, hosier Doxey William, butcher & farmer Frost George, stone mason Gratton Francis, blacksmith & farmer Gratton Fras. jun. butcher & farmer Gratton William, farmer Gregson Walter, family grocer, provision merchant & tea dealr. Post office Holmes Ruth (Mrs.), haberdasher Howard William, grocer & baker Jepson Henry, Wellington inn Jepson Joseph, boot & shoe maker KILLER BROTHERS, quarry owners, manufacturers of Hopton-Wood stone chimney pieces & monumental stone & steam saw mills, Hopton-Wood stone quarries. See advertisement Killer Brothers, coal & coke merchants, Coal wharf Middleton Gas Works (Killer Brothers, proprietors) Moore Joseph, farmer Moore Robert, butcher Slack Daniel, farmer & hay dealer Slack William, farmer Spencer Abraham, boot dealer Spencer Francis, farmer Spencer Isaac, coal dealer Spencer John, shoe maker, shopkeeper & farmer Spencer Thomas, Nelson's Arms P.H. & farmer Walker Frank William, Rising Sun P.H Ible. Brown Aaron, farmer Elliott Benjamin, farmer Kinder Job, farmer Longdon Joseph, farmer Marchington Joseph, farmer Smith Joseph, farmer Spencer Harriett (Mrs.), Lillies inn Webster Thomas, farmer, White cliff Worthy John (Mrs.), farmer, Whitelow Ivonbrook Grange. Beeston William Toplis, farmer Cook Arthur, Holly Bush inn Ivonbrook Grange Dairy Association Kenworthy Graham, farmer Rains Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Rains Robert, farmer Rouse John William, farmer [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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