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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Weston-upon-Trent, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - pp. 323-4 |
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WESTON-UPON-TRENT is a parish, with a station on the Derby,
Castle Donington and Trent branch line of the Midland railway, 120
miles from London and 7 south-east-by-south from Derby, in the Southern
division of the county, hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, Shardlow
union, Derby petty sessional division and county court district;
rural deanery of Melbourne, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese
of Southwell. The Trent and Mersey canal runs through the parish.
The ancient church of St,. Mary is a building of local stone,
consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, aisles of extreme width,
south porch and an embattled western tower with octagonal spire
containing 3 bells : the chancel is Early English ; with a stained
east window, three small stained lancet windows on the south side
and two plain lancets on the north : the arcades of the nave with
their lofty pointed arches, graceful columns and neatly moulded
capitals are also Early English, but of a much later period : the
windows of the south aisle are 13th century Geometrical, and those
in the north aisle Decorated or Transitional : the massive tower
belongs to the beginning of the Rectilinear period, about 1360,
the porch is an antique structure of oak and brick work, probably
added at the commencement of last century : the font is dated 1661,
there are handsome sedilia and a piscina on the south side of
the chancel and two piscinæ in the aisles ; on the porch
wall of the chancel is a mural tablet to Richard SaIe ob.1615;
prebendary of Lichfield and "parson of this church," and
Dorothy his wife ; the quaint kneeling effigies of these, with
their two sons and six daughters and others of two infants, formerly
placed in the sedilia, were, on the restoration of the church
in 1877, removed to the east end of the south aisle : in 1877
the floor of the chancel and choir was raised and inlaid with
encaustic tiles, the ancient stonework of the church exposed,
the roof repaired and the interior partly reseated, and in the
course of the work the foundations of an earlier tower were discovered
: an oaken bier, dated 1653, is still in use : there are 350
sittings. The registers from the year 1565 and until 1586 are
on paper, then ensues a gap till 1610, except a few entries in
1605 ; the remainder are on parchment. The living is a rectory,
gross yearly value £594, including 303 acres of glebe,
with residence, in the gift of Sir Robert Rodney Wilmot bart. and
held since 1863 by the Rev. John Wadham M.A. of Wadham College,
Oxford. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels here. The interest
of £60,
left by Mrs. Ann Holden, in 1766, is distributed annually, at the
discretion of the minister and churchwardens. Sir Robert Rodney
Wilmot bart. D.L. of Osmaston Hall, and E. H. Pares esq. of Hopwell
Hall, are the principal landowners. E. C. S. Holden esq. J.P.
of Aston Hall, Derby, is lord of the manor. At the beginning
of the Civil war, an engagement was fought at King's Mill ford
near here, then held by the Royalists, and several of the slain
seem to have been buried in the churchyard ; the parish register,
under date July 4th, 1644, records
"some souldiers byryed of ye garrison," and on the 7th
of August following, " Duck, a souldier buryed." The soil
is chiefly a fine sandy loam ; with some stiff clay; subsoil, chiefly
gravel. The land is half grass, half arable. The acreage is 1,959;
rateable value, £4,242 ; the population in 1881 was 292. Parish Clerk William Rose. WALL LETTER BOX cleared at 6.30 p.m. week days, 8 a.m. Sundays. Letters through Derby arrive at 7.30 a.m. The nearest money order office is at Aston-on-Trent. There is a telegraph office for public use at the Midland Railway Station in the village National School (mixed), erected in 1842 to hold 60 children ; average attendance, 35; Miss E. A. Taylor, mistress Railway Station, Thomas Parker, station master Porter John, The Hall Wadham Rev. John, M.A. Rectory COMMERCIAL. Bullock John, farmer Clayton Henry, Old Cliff inn, & farmer Titchett John, shopkeeper Gibson Christopher, farmer Greasley, Edwd. Old Plough inn, & farmr Hollingsworth Jn. frmr. Weston fields fm Hollingworth Jn. Frost, farmer Hill frm Merry John Cholerton, commrel. trav Moseley (Mrs.), farmer Parker Thomas, coal dealer Pegg James, provision dealer Porter Isaac, builder Porter Joseph, farmer, Hall Rose William, farmer Shaw Robert, cowkeeper Shreeve Theresa (Mrs.), farmer Smith Jacob Botham, farmer Weston William, lock keeper Wilkins Mary (Miss), farmer [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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