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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Milford (with Makeney), Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p. 266 |
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| MILFORD, with the
hamlet of MAKENEY, forms a considerable village and ecclesiastical
parish, constituted in 1846 from the parish of Duffield ; it is pleasantly
situated on the banks of the river Derwent, over which there is a
stone bridge of two arches,1 mile north from Duffield station on the
main line of the Midland railway, 138½ miles from London, 1½
south from Belper and 6 north from Derby, in the Mid division of the
county, Appletree hundred, Belper union and petty sessional division,
Belper and Ilkeston county court district, rural deanery of Duffield,
archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. The church of the
Holy Trinity, erected in 1848, on a site given by Messrs. Strutt,
at a cost of £2,000, is a building of stone in the Early English
style, consisting of chancel, nave, west porch and a turret containing
one bell : there are sittings for 500 persons. The register dates
from the year 1848. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £150,
with residence, in the gift of the Crown and the Bishop of Lichfield
alternately, and held since 1858 by the Rev. Thomas Crossland M.A.
of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and chaplain of Belper union.
There are Wesleyan, Reformed and Primitive Methodist and Baptist chapels.
Messrs. W. G. and J. Strutt have an extensive establishment here for
bleaching and dyeing, as well as gas works, from which their works
both here and at Belper are supplied : Messrs. W. Hollins and Co.
Limited have a cotton spinning factory and Messrs. Fletcher Brothers
a large flour mill. The principal landowners are Lord Belper and co-proprietors
and Herbert Strutt esq. J.P. The population in 1881 was 1,519. SUNNYHILL, Chevin Side, and Hopping Hill are places adjoining the village. Makeney is half-a-mile to the south-east: Makeney Hall is now a farmhouse. Parish Clerk, Jeremiah Fletcher. POST & M. O. O. S. B. & Government Annuity & Insurance Office.-Miss Rachel Needham, receiver. Letters received from Derby at 4.45 a.m. ; dispatched at 8.10 p.m. The nearest telegraph office is at Belper British School (mixed & infants), established over l00 years, in connection with the factory of & supported by Messrs. Strutt, for the children of their workmen & others. The school will hold 400 boys & girls & 120 infants ; average attendance, 170 boys & girls & 90 infants ; George William Brindley, master ; Miss Emily Elizh. Harrison, infants' mistress Milford. Crossland Rev. Thomas M.A. Vicarage Holme George. Derwent house Mansfield Henry Oldershaw Walter Strutt Hon. Frederick J.P. Milford house COMMERCIAL. Allsop George, New inn, Hopping hill Brooks John, grocer Brooks Samuel, tailor Brown, Samuel, tailor Clark Samuel, beer retailer Fletcher Bros. millers (water), Forge mill Hall Erasmus, butcher Harvey John, farmer Jones John William, shopkeeper Knifton William, butcher, Chevin wold Mead James. farmer, Sunny hilI Milford Cooperative Society (James Bower, manager), Hopping hill Oldknow Henry, grocer Pollard Thomas, farmer, Hopping hill Price Thomas, farmer Rogers Sarah (Mrs.), grocer Sheldon Emma (Mrs.), Royal Oak P.H Shelley Henry, painter, Sunny hill Sims Joseph, boot maker Slater Hannah (Mrs.), Beehive P.H Smith Phœbe (Mrs.), pork butcher Hopping hill Strutt William George & Joseph, bleachers & dyers; & cotton spinners & manufacturers at Belper Makeney. Holmes Major Alfd. Wm. Makeney ldg Strutt George Herbert J.P. Makeney ho Cooper George, shopkeeper Littlewood, Richard, rate collector & assistant overseer for Duffield Malin, Joseph, farmer, Old Hall farm Parkin Octavius, Holy Bush P.H Rains Samuel, farmer, Mekeney farm Winson Hannah (Mrs.), farmer, Duffield bank [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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