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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Scropton, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - pp.296-297 |
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SCROPTON is a parish, comprising the township of SCROPTON and
FOSTON, and is partly in the county of Stafford, on the river Dove,
6 miles north-west from Burton, 7 east from Uttoxeter, 8 north-west
from Lichfield, 11½ west-south-west from Derby and 2 west from
Tutbury station on the North Staffordshire railway, in the Western
division of the county, hundreds of Appletree and North Offlow, Appletree
petty sessional division, Burton-upon-Trent union and county court
district. The Foston brook, flowing through the township, forms a
lake in Foston park. The church of St. Paul, rebuilt in 1856, is a
building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel
with aisle, nave, south porch and a western tower with spire containing
a clock and 3 bells: there are 275 sittings. The register dates from
the year 1681. The living is a donative, average tithe rent-charge
£10, gross yearly value £97, including 16 acres of glebe,
in the gift of Adm. Sir A. Cumming K.C.D. of Spring Grove, Bishopstoke,
and held since 1885 by the Rev. John Standbridge. Here are a few unimportant
charities. Wall's charity, amounting to about £5 yearly, is
given to the poor of the parish in bread and gowns on St. Thomas'
day in each year. In 1885 Miss Elizabeth Eld bequeathed the sum of
£300 to the vicar and churchwardens for the time being to be
invested in £3 per cent. Consols, and to be laid out by them
in purchasing clothes and coals to be distributed annually at Christmas
amongst 12 or more of the oldest poor men and women of the parish
of Scropton. The parish feast is on the nearest Sunday to St. Paul's
day. The soil is a light loam; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are
wheat, barley, clover, mangolds and turnips. The area is 2,841 acres
in Derbyshire and 142 in Staffordshire ; rateable value, £8,098;
105 acres in Scropton pay poor rates to
Hatton. The population in 1881 was, in Staffordshire 98 and in Derbyshire,
524. FOSTON is 1½ miles north from Scropton. Foston Hall, the
property of Admiral Sir Arthur Cumming K.C.B., F.R.A.S. lord of the
manor and principal landowner, is pleasantly situated here, it is
now occupied by the Hon. George H Allsopp M.A., M.P., D.L., J.P. Parish Clerk, Thomas Tipper POST, M. O. & T. O., S. B. & Insurance & Annuity Office Foston.-John Hollis, postmaster. Letters through the Derby office, arrive 5.50; dispatched 7.30; also sunday 7.30 p.m WALL LETTER BOX, cleared 6 p.m. summer; 5 p. m. winter ; not sundays A School Board of 5 members was formed in 1872 ; G. C. Lucas, Hilton, clerk to the board & attendance officer Board School, erected in 1856, for 60 boys & girls & 30 infants ; average attendance, 47 boys & girls & 24 infants, David Wilson, master; Mrs. Mary Wilson, mistress Scropton. Strutt Alfred COMMERCIAL. Adams Daniel, farmer Allen David, farmer Archer John, farmer Archer William, Foresters' Arms P.H. & farmer Bakewell George, farmer Blunt Henry William, farmer Bowen George, cowkeeper Brooks George, boot & shoe maker Dearle Thomas R. farmer Johnson James, farmer Lockhart James, shopkeeper Prince John, farmer Shipton John, farmer Shipton Robert, farmer Sutton Joseph, farmer Tipper James, farmer Tipper Thomas, cowkeeper & parish clrk Wild Harriet (Mrs.), farmer Wilson David, schoolmaster Wright James, farmer Foston. Allsopp Hon. George Higginson M.P. M.A., D.L., J.P. Foston hall; & 27 Aldford street, Park lane w & Carlton & Junior Carlton clubs sw & Turf club w London Fort Richard, The Cottage Standbridge Rev. John [vicar] Tytler Fraser, The Firs COMMERCIAL. Allsop Wm. (Mrs.), wheelwright & farmr Bentley Thomas, farmer Billinge William, cowkeeper Hollis John, blacksmith, Post office Jackson Thomas, farmer, Heath top Johnson Frederick, farmer Orme Thomas, farmer Prince John, farmer Shipton Sarah Ellen (Mrs.), farmer Strickland Mary (Mrs.), farmer Sutton Richard, farmer Teat Charles, miller (water) [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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