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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Taddington and Priestcliffe, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.314 |
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| TADDINGTON and PRIESTCLIFFE
form a joint township and parish, to which Blackwell and Brushfield
townships are annexed for ecclesiastical purposes. Taddington is on
the Bakewell and Buxton road, being 6 miles from either place, 4½
miles south from Tideswell and 2 miles south from Miller's Dale railway
station on the Midland railway, in the Westem division of the county,
hundred of High Peak, union, petty sessional division and county court
district of Bakewell, rural deanery of Buxton, archdeaconry of Derby
and diocese of Southwell, The village is supplied with water from
a reservoir at a short distance fed by a spring called " the
Sough Brook; " the water is conveyed through pipes laid down
by the sanitary authority of the district. The church of St. Michael
is a building of stone, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of
four bays, aisles, south porch and a western tower with broach spire,
containing 4 bells, three of which were rehung and a fourth added
in 1876; two of these bear dedicatory inscriptions to St. Michael;
the 3rd is dated 1669 ; no part of the existing edifice seems older
than the 14th century, and it is probable that the church was entirely
rebuilt about 1350; the east window consists of five lights; the nave
arcade has slender and somewhat lofty octagonal piers: the clerestory
was an addition in the Perpendicular period, but the south doorway
is Decorated, and has a Iater porch: in the chancel, affixed to the
north wall, from which it projects 9 inches, at a height of 3 feet
from the floor, is a stone reading desk ; similar desks exist at Crich
and Spondon : on the south side is a small piscina and sedilia : a
stone slab, perhaps an ancient altar stone, lies on the south side
of the chancel: in the south aisle is a second and more elaborate
piscina and brasses to Richard and Agnes Blackwall, of Blackwall (now
Blackwell), in this parish, and their family, the former attired as
a civilian, with a gypciere, or pouch, and the latter in a
conventual dress, she having, after her husband's death, taken a vow
of perpetual widowhood; the inscription, in black letter, is dated
1505: near these is a mutilated alabaster slab, with the rudely incised
but headless figure of a man; the inscription is obliterated, or nearly
so, but it related to the same family; the font is a plain octagon
of Perpendicular date : there are 350 sittings: in the churchyard
is an ancient cross, consisting of a pedestal 2 feet square, from
which arises an incomplete shaft, 6 feet in height, incised with chevron
and other markings ; it is probably Celtic, and may have been erected
by the Celtic missionaries of the 7th century; in 1889 the
churchyard was enlarged by order of the bishop of the diocese, the
vicar bestowing 2½ acres of glebe for the purpose; the churchyard
is now about 4 acres in extent. The register dates from about 1640.
The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £240, including 45
acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the vicar of Bakewell,
and held since 1865 by the Rev. John Bateson B.A. of Trinity College,
Dublin : in 1889 the living was augmented by the great tithes being
made over to it by the Duke of Rutland. There are other charities,
of about £10 12s. yearly for distribution. Here is a Wesleyan
chapel, built in 1833, and a small Primitive Methodist chapel. One
of the best examples now existing in this country of ancient burying-places
is situated on the summit of Five Wells Hill, about It miles west-by-south
from the village; it was opened in 1846, when quantities of bones
of both sexes and of various ages were found. The Duke of Devonshire
K.G. is lord of the manor. The land in Taddington is divided into
small freeholds, 60 in number, of which the occupiers are chiefly
the owners. The soil is light, on limestone. The chief crops are hay
and oats, but the land is mostly pasture for dairy purposes, a large
quantity of milk being sent from here to Liverpool. The area is 3,008
acres ; rateable valtfe, £5,192; the population in 1881 was
486 in the parish and 408 in the township. BLACKWELL township contains 1,083 acres ; rateable value, £2,082; and had 47 inhabitants in 1881. The manor of Blackwell belonged to William Peverel in the reign of Henry I. : the whole now belongs to the Duke of Devonshire. Sexton, Thomas Mycock. POST & M. O. O., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.- Mrs. Joyce Lingard, receiver. Letters are received from Stockport at 8.30 a.m.; dispatched at4.30 p.m. weekdays only. The nearest telegraph office is at Miller's Dale SCHOOLS:- Priestcliffe Charity, erected in 1848. for 113 boys; average attendance, 45; the school is endowed with £86 yearly, arising from land, left in 1714, for 30 foundation scholars ; Charles Bernard Hardy, master Taddington Endowed, built in 1845, for 50 children; average attendance, 23; the school has an income of £15 yearly, left in 1798, arising from land, for educating 20 poor children; in 1887 the income of the school was increased by the interest of £1,000 Consols, left by will by Mr. George Brunt, formerly of Priestcliffe; Miss Sophia Rushden, mistress Taddington. Bateson Rev. John D.A. Vicarage Hambleton Mrs Wood Mrs. The Hall COMMERCIAL. Andrews Charles, farmer, Wheal Bennett Matthew, farmer Bennett Samuel, Star P.H. & farmer Boam Henry, farmer, Five wells Bown Wiliam Bosley, farmer Braddock John Newton, farmer Broome Reginald, farmer Chapman Anthony, wheelwright & farmr Critchley Septimus, farmer Elton Thomas, George hotel Gibbs Richard, farmer Goodwin George, farmer & shoe maker Gregory Susanna (Mrs.), farmer Hambleton Isaac, shoe maker Heathcote George, shopkeeper Heathcote Henry, farmer Hodgkinson Matthew, farmer, Wheal Johnson Joseph, farmer Lingard Joyce (Mrs.), grocer & farmer, Post office Lomas Peter, farmer, Blackwell Longdon John, farmer, Colton Makinson Lawrence, farmer, Blacklow Mason William, farmer Mellor James, farmer Mettam Joseph, stone mason Millward Charles, farmer, Blackwell Moore John Thomas, farmer, Blackwell Moss Nathan, Miners' Arms P.H Maycock Richard, farmer Mycock James, meer maker Needham Mary (Mrs.), Waterloo P.H. & farmer Needham Peter, farmer Needham William, beer retlr. & farmer Percival Charles, farmer, Blackwell RobInson Thomas, farmer, Five wells Skidmore Henry, farmer Wainwright John, farmer Wood John, farmer & shopkeeper Wright John, cattle dealer, Blackwell Wright Stephen, farmer, Moor Priestcliffe. Cook Joseph, Priestcliffe ditch Bagshaw William, farmer Bamford David, farmer, Ditch Cooper Charles, farmer, Ditch Curzon & Makinson Jane (Mrs.) & Ann (Miss), farmers Dunn Richard, farmer Mellor Jsph. Buxton & SI. Buxton, farmrs Mellor Ralph Buxton, farmer Mellor William Buxton, farmer Needham Isaac, farmer Rogers Thomas, farmer [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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