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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Shirebrook, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - pp.298-9 |
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| SHIREBROOK is a parish, formed 4 May, 1849,
from the civil parish of Pleasley, with a station on the Mansfield
and Worksop line of the Midland railway, 6 miles north-west from
Mansfield, 11 south-east from Chesterfield, on the borders of Nottinghamshire,
in the Chesterfield division of the county, Chesterfield petty sessional
division, Mansfield union, Mansfield county court district, rural
deanery of Alfreton, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell.
Holy Trinity church, erected in 1843, at a cost of £1,000,
is a plain building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave and a
western turret consisting one small bell : there are brasses to
Mr. and Mrs. Eadson and to the Rev. John Cargill, 26 years, vicar
of Shirebrook, both erected by Miss Eadson, of Mansfield : the
church affords 200 sittings. The register dates from the year 1849.
The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £210, with residence,
in the gift of J. Paget
esq. D.L. J.P, and held since 1881 by the Rev. Frederick Lloyd Ware
M.A. of Caius College, Cambridge. There is a Primitive Methodist
chapel here. Boler's charity of 21s. yearly is distributed in money.
Joseph Paget esq. D,L., J.P. of Stuffynwood Hall, is the principal
landowner. The area is 1,441 acres ; rateable value, £2,466
; the population in 1881 was 409. Parish Clerk, William Wragg. POST OFFICE.-George Dean, receiver. Letters through Mansfield, arrive at 8.20 a.m. ; dispatched at 5 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Mansfield Woodhouse National School (mixed), for 140 children; average attendance, 90 ; Henry Day, master Railway Station, Harry Woods, station master Paget Joseph D.L., J.P. Stuffynwood hall Ware Rev. Fredk. Lloyd M.A. Vicarage Bullivante Mrs COMMERCIAL. Booth Henry, farmer Coope William, wheelwright Cox Joseph, farmer & miller (wind) Farnsworth Mary (Mrs.), farmer Flint William, butcher Green Edward, The Gate P.H Nicholson Joseph, farmer Nicholson Joseph, jun. farmer Reddish Herbert, farmer Rogers Harvey, tailor Rogers Henry, grocer Smith Amos, beer retailer Spafond Maria (Mrs.), shopkeeper Strutt George, farmer Wilson William, farmer Wright Joseph, farmer [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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