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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Stanton by Dale, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.305 |
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STANTON-BY-DALE is a parish on the borders of Nottinghamshire,
with station on the Erewash Valley branch of the Midland railway,
133 miles from London and 7 east-by-north from Derby, in the Ilkeston
division of the county, Morleston and Litchurch hundred, Smalley petty
sessional division, Shardlow union, Belper
and Ilkeston county court district, rural deanery of Ilkeston, archdeaconry
of Derby and diocese of Southwell. The Erewash and Nutbrook canal
runs through the parish. The church of St. Michael is a building of
stone possessing some Early English features, but rebuilt, or considerably
altered, about 1350; it consists of chancel, nave, north aisle, vestry,
organ chamber, south porch and a western tower with pinnacles containing
5 bells, recast in 1872 : to the Decorated period belong the east
and one other chancel window and the arcade of three arches separating
the nave and aisle with its octagonal pillars and responds; the tower
is rather Late Perpendicular, not earlier than 1475: there is a piscina
niche, with trefoiled head, on the south side of the chancel, and
another within the arch opening from the aisle into the chancel chapel,
having above it a half-length figure under a crocketed canopy: the
font is an octagon, uniquely carved and of Decorated date: on the
outer wall of the chancel are some fragments of incised crosses: there
are monuments to Matthew Pilkington LL.B. prebendary of Lichfield
(1765), with arms, and others of that family; to Katharine, daughter
of Humphry Wolffreston and wife of Ralph Thicknesse (1662), and to
Edward Holt (1606), who died at the great age of 100 : the church
plate includes a silver chalice and paten, dated 1629-30: the church
was thoroughly restored in 1872 at a cost of £1,600, and has
about 200 sittings. The register dates from the year 1604 for all
entries and is in good condition, but the earlier part is a copy from
an older book and contains a statement that the entries under 1606
could not be read. The living is a rectory, with the donative of Dale
Abbey (annexed since 1702), and average tithe rent-charge £242,
net yearly value £192, including 16½ acres of glebe,
with residence, in the gift of Earl Stanhope, and held since 1873
by the Rev. William Fox B.A. of Pembroke College, Oxford, and private
chaplain to the patron. A Wesleyan chapel was erected here in 1860.
Almshouses for 8 poor persons were founded in 1711 by Joseph Middlemore,
two others by his wife and two more in 1735 from the surplus funds
of the same charity, the inmates of which receive sixteen shillings
a month each. Here are the extensive ironworks of the Stanton Iron
Company. In the parish is a stone cross dated 1632. Earl Stanhope
is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is strong clay;
subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat and beans. The area is 1,442
acres of land and 25 of water; rateable value, £6,664 ; the
population in 1881 was 623. Parish Clerk, David Barber. POST OFFICE.-David Morrell, receiver, Letters received through Nottingham, arrive at 8 a.m. ; dispatched at 7.30 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Sandiacre. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid National School (mixed), erected in 1853, for 120 children ; average attendance, 96 ; Miss Margaret Murchie, mistrss Railway Station, Joseph Smith, station master CARRIER.-John Thomas Hancock, to Nottingham, sat Barber Arthur Herbert Chambers James Colquhoun James Crompton George, Stanton hall Fox Rev. William B.A. Rectory Repton Enoch Salt John Arthur COMMERCIAL. Batty Matilda (Mrs.), Seven Oaks inn Broad John, lock keeper, Nutbrook canal Brown Robert Fredk. builder & farmer Carter Edwin, farmer Chadwick Thomas, farmer Doar Thomas, farmer Goodwin George, lock keeper Hancock Ellen (Mrs.), shopkeeper Hickson John, farmer Mee Samuel, shoe maker Morrell David, saddler, Post office Pheasant George Henry, farmer Scattergood Dick Richard, Stanhope Arms P.H. & wheelwright Stafford Arthur, farmer Stafford John, shopkeeper Stafford Samuel, farmer Stanton Iron Works Company Limited, pig iron manufacturers, & makers of gas & water pipes & general castings (Enoch Repton, sec) Straw Charles, canal agent Thornley Wm. The Chequers P.H & shpkpr Towle Walter, blacksmith [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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