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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Stanton-in-the-Peak, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - pp. 305-306 |
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| STANTON-IN-THE-PEAK is a township and village,
and was formed out of Youlgreave into a parish in 1876, 2 miles south-west
from Rowsley station on the Manchester line of the Midland railway,
4 miles south-east from Bakewell and 8 miles from Matlock, in the
Western division of the county, hundred of High Peak, Bakewell union,
petty sessional division and county court district, rural deanery
of Bakewell, archdeaconry of Derby and Southwell diocese. The water
supply is derived from springs rising in the neighbouring gritstone
hills. The church, erected in 1839 by the late William Pole Thornhill
esq. is a cruciform building, consisting of chancel, nave,
transept, south porch and a tower at the east end with spire and containing
a clock and 6 bells, dated 1838 : in 1883 a memorial window was erected
by Major McCreagh Thornhill to Emma, daughter of the late Henry Bache
Thornhill esq. and wife of F. S. Hurlock esq. and to her son; there
are also two other stained windows, and the church affords 150 sittings.
The living is a vicarage, with the chapelry of Birchover annexed,
in the gift of Mrs. McCreagh-Thornhill and endowed by the late William
Pole Thornhill esq. to the yearly value of £250, gross income
£272, with residence near Winster, and held since 1891 by the
Rev. James Edwin Jagger M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge. There
are Reformed Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels here, and a
small Reformed Wesleyan chapel at Stanton Lees. The cemetery here
contains l½ acres. Stanton Hall, the seat of the Thornhill
family, now occupied by Major McCreagh-Thornhill J.P. is a fine mansion,
with several handsome terraces, and grounds are laid out with much
taste ; the park contains about 130 acres, adorned with fine timber
and stocked with deer: the carriage drive is 1¾ miles in length.
Major McCreagh-Tbornhill is lord of the manor and principal landowner.
The soil is light grit and sand; subsoil, stone beds. The land is
principally in pasture. The area is 1,824 acres; rateable value, £3,210
; the population in 1881 was 762 in the town ship and 818 in the parish. STANTON HILL SIDE is part of Birchover Street ; and Pillough and Stanton Lees and Congreave hamlets are in this township. Letters through Bakewell arrive at 9.30 a.m. Rowsley is the nearest money order & telegraph office. WALL LETTER BOX cleared at 5.40 p.m. Stanton Church of England School (mixed), erected in 1879 by the late Mrs. Thornhill Gell, for 150 children; average attendance, 96; George Sibson, master ; Mrs. Phoebe Sibson, mistress McCreagh-Thornhill Major Michael J.P. Stanton hall Jagger Rev. James Edwin M.A. Rowtor hall, Winster COMMERCIAL. Daniel Joseph, shoe maker Doxey Thomas, blacksmith Drabble Godfrey (Mrs.), farmer, Congreave Evans Chas. bailiff to Major McCreagh-Thornhill Fantem Richard, Farmer, Bower's hall Fryer Henry, carpenter Holmes, John, farmer, Congreave Holmes Walter farmer, Stanton Lees Prince John & Co. farmrs & stone mers Prince Albert, Flying Childers PH Prince Herbert, shopkeeper Siddell Charles, stone mason & farmer Siddell Charles jun, mason Siddell George, shoe maker Smith Samuel, farmer, Congreave Stevenson John, farmer, Stanton Lees Twyford Abraham, farmer & stone mer Twyford Ann (Mrs), farmr. & stone mer Webster George, head gamekeeper to Major McCreagh-Thornhill Wright Isaac, farmer [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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