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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Pinxton, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.285 |
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PINXTON is a parish, partly in Nottinghamshire, 3¾ miles
east from Alfreton, 6 south-south-west from Mansfield and 132 from
London, in the Mid division of the county, hundred of Scarsdale, Alfreton
petty sessional division and county court district, union of Mansfield,
rural deanery of Alfreton, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell
; the village is situated on a branch of the Erewash canal ; the Erewash
Valley and Great Northern railways have stations about three-quarters
of a mile from the village, called Pinxton and Pinxton Wharf, but
both are in the parish of Selston, Notts, and there is also a station
for this place on the Mansfield and Ambergate section of the Midland
railway. The church of St. Helena, standing on a height at a distance
from the village, is a building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave
of three bays, south transept, a western porch and a tower, on the
south side of the chancel, rebuilt with the materials of the old church
and containing 2 bells, one of early date but cracked, the other cast
in 1803 : the font consists of a large octagonal basin on a well-moulded
base: in the paving of the aisle remain some incised slabs of the
13th century, and in the chancel is a stone inscribed to Mary Kelsal
(1674) : the transept has one small Early English window: there are
two memorial windows to the Coke family, erected in 1872: there are
180 sittings, 150 being free : in consequence of the dilapidated state
of the church, most of the services are now held in the mission room.
The register dates from the year 1561 for all entries, but there is
a list of rectors extending back to 1299, and several terriers dating
from 1628. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £184,
net yearly value £230, including residence and 36 acres of glebe,
value £60,in the gift of Will. Sacheverell Coke esq. and held
since 1885 by the Rev. Sidney Coke B.A. of University College, Durham.
The Sunday school and Mission room, built in 1880, at a cost of about
£600, and near the centre of the inhabited part of the parish,
are licensed and used for Sunday and weekday services. There are Primitive
Methodist and Free Methodist chapels. The Rev. Francis Gisborne, sometime
rector of Staveley, left to this parish in 1818 the sum of £6
15s. yearly for flannel for the poor. Here are extensive collieries
belonging to Messrs. Coke and Co. ; nails are also made. Brookhill Hall, the seat of Wm. Sacheverell Coke esq. J.P. is a large and handsome building, surrounded by well. timbered grounds, and was the property of King James I. by whom the manor of Brookhill was granted to one Middleton. Longwood Hall is the residence of Major Walter Salmond J.P. The Manor of Pinxton is supposed by Lysons to have been the "Snodeswic " given by Wulfric Spott to Burton Abbey as an appendage to Morton, and the "Esnotrewic" of the Domesday survey: according to local tradition Pinxton was held by Drogo, under William Peverel : it has for several centuries passed with one of the moieties of South Normanton, and is the property of William Sacheverell Coke esq. J.P. who is chief landowner. The land is chiefly pasture. The soil is clay and loam; subsoil, chiefly clay. The area is 1,154 acres in Derbyshire and 99 acres in Notts ; rateable value, £7,588; the population in 1871 was 1,973 ; and in 1881 was 2,317, of which 31 are in Notts. Parish Clerk, Thomas Stocks. POST & M. O. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.- George M. Taylor, postmaster. Letters from Alfreton at 8 a.m. & 4.15 p.m. ; dispatched thereto at 4.55 p.m. ; sundays 10 a.m. Telegraph office at Pinxton Wharf station (Great Northern) WALL Box, Slade lane, cleared at 5 p.m. week days & 10.5 a.m. on Sundays SCHOOLS :- A School Board of 5 members was formed in 1876 ; G. H. Hibbert, clerk to the Board Kirkstead Board, erected in 1878, for 150 boys; average attendance, 140; John Frederick Rowe, master Girls' & Infants', erected in 1860, enlarged in 1878, for 145 girls & 110 infants; average attendance, 120 girls & 110 infants ; Miss Clara E. Hill, mistress ; Miss Margaret Timewell, infants' mistress Board, Pinxton Wharf, erected in 1879, for 110 infants ; average attendance, 126; Miss S. A. Boot, mistress There is a Church sunday school, with a library RAILWAY STATIONS :- Midland, Pinxton, Joseph Mounsey, station master G.N. Pinxton Wharf, A. Pratchett, station master Cliff Arthur Winrow, Alderman house Coke Rev. Sidney B.A. Rectory Coke William Sacheverell D.L., J.P. Brookhill hall Evans James Hayes Joseph, Stenson house Hill Thomas King Henry Salmond Maj. Walter J.P. Longwood hall Toogood Frederick Sherman M.D Wild William, Rose villa COMMERCIAL. Allin James, principal clerk at Pinxton collieries Alsop Sl. manager at Pinxton collieries Armstrong Henry, farmer Beardsley Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper Bingham Geo. blacksmith, Slade lane Bingham Emma (Mrs.), George inn Bingham Thomas, farmer Bingley Agnes (Mrs.), grocer Booth Joseph, linen & woollen draper Booth William, tobacconist Bower Samuel, farmer Burnham John, hairdresser, Slade lane Burrows Francis, beer retailer Chadborn Martha (Miss), farmer Chamberlain Lemuel, grocer, &: agent for W. & A. Gilbey, wine & spirit merchants, Wharf Chappell Frederick, furniture broker Christian Alfred, bricklayer Clarke Samuel, joiner & builder Coke & Co. colliery proprietors (Walter Salmond, manager), Pinxton collieries Cutts Susannah (Mrs.), Three Horse Shoes P.H. & farmer Dalby John, grocer Edge George, farmer Elliott John Bingham, boot & shoe ma Fisher Thomas & Son, blacksmiths, shoeing & general smiths, dealers in wire netting, felt & galvanizing roofings, watering pans, barb wire, general dealers in ironmongery & Hardy's coal boring machine Gelsthorpe John, jun. farmer Gibson Joseph, shopkeeper Goodall Geo. cow keeper, Brookhill Goodall Henry, builder Goodall Lydia (Mrs.) farmer Greaves A & Son, pharm. chemists, oil & color men & stationers Green Daniel, boot maker, Slade lane Hancock George, beer retailer, Wharf Hardy Jonathan, grocer Harrold George, Sun inn, good stabling accommodation Haseldine William, farmer Hawley Thomas, grocer & beer reta.1& farmer Hoten George, joiner & builder King Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Slade la Kirk Thomas, farmer Lacey William Manning, chief agent to Birchwood collieries, Birchwood house Lane Alfred, boot & shoe maker Lee Thomas, farmer, Manor farm Moore Thomas, farmer Neail Frederick, New inn, Wharf Oxley Robert & Son, drapers Parsons Richard, greengrocer Pinxton Benevolent Co-operative & Industrial Society Limited (Joseph Hayes, manager), grocers & provision merchants, drapers, patent medicine vendors & boot & shoo dealers Pinxton Benevolent Co-operative & Industrial Society Limited (Jordan Ashworth, manager), Wharf lane Salmon Arthur, butcher Salmond Walter, manager of Pinxton collieries, Longwood hall Shardlow Arthur, butcher & farmer Simpson Matthew, beer retailer Slater Jn. cashier at Pinxton collieries Smith William, nail dealer Stirland George, farmer Straw Alfred, grocer, Slade lane Street James, shopkeeper Swaine Thomas, chimney sweeper Toogood Fredk. Sherman M.D. surgeon Walters Eliza (Mrs.), ladies' boarding & day school, Wharf Watson Joseph, farmer Worthington Thomas, farmer Yeoman James, farmer Yeoman Thomas, farmer [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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