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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Wardlow, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.323 |
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WARDLOW is a township, partly in the new parish of Bradwell
and partly in the parish of Longstone, 5 miles north-north-west from
Bakewell and 2¾ east-by-south from Tideswell, and 3 miles south
from Longstone station on the Ambergate and Manchester section of
the Midland railway, in the Western division of the county, High Peak
hundred and Bakewell union, petty sessional division and county court
district. The church of the Good Shepherd, erected in 1873, is a small
edifice of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel,
nave and a turret between the chancel and nave, containing 3 bells:
there are 100 sittings and attached to the church is a small burial
ground : divine service is conducted here by the rector of Tideswell.
Here are lead mines, but are not now being worked. The Duke of Devonshire
K.G. is lord of the manor and the principal landowner. The soil is
light, on limestone. The land is chiefly in pasture. The area is 394
acres in Bradwell parish and 235 in Longstone ; rateable value, £656
; the population in 1881 was 163. Letters from Stockport via Litton, arrive at 7.30 a.m. by mail cart. Tideswell is the nearest money order & telegraph office National School (mixed), erected in 1833 & enlarged by subscription in 1872, for 4-5 children; average attendance, 30; Miss Annie Masheter, mistress COMMERCIAL. Birley John, farmer BramweIl Hannah (Mrs.), BuIl's Head P.H Bramwell John, farmer Furness James, farmer Furness Jonathan, shoe maker Furness Thomas, Three Stags' Heads P. H. & farmer Gregory George, farmer Halsop Thomas, farmer Robinson John & Sarah (Mrs.) farmers Robinson James, farmer Robinson James, farmer Robinson Joseph, farmer Sellars John, farmer Sellars Sarah (Mrs.), farmer Somerset Benjamin, joiner Somerset Nathan, farmer Thornhill John, farmer [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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