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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Willington, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.327 |
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WILLINGTON is a pleasant village and parish, with a station
(called Repton and Willington) on the Derby and Burton section of
the Midland railway, 4½ miles north-east from Burton-upon-Trent,
6½ south-west from Derby and 125½ from London, in the
Southern division of the county, hundred of Morleston and Litchurch,
union of Burton-upon-Trent, Derby petty sessional division and county
court district, rural deanery of Repton, archdeaconry of Derby and
diocese of Southwell. The Grand Trunk canal and the rivers Dove and
Trent pass through the parish. The church of St. Michael is a building
of stone consisting of chancel, nave, north transept and a small embattled
western tower with pinnacles, containing 3 bells, recast in 1837 at
a cost of £30: the south doorway, now built up, is of Norman
date, as was also the chancel arch, recased in 1824 ; the chancel
itself has two short lancet windows of Early English work: the tower,
singularly plain, was built in 1824 for £80 and shortly afterwards
a north transept was erected and the church repewed, at a cost of
£300 : in the chancel are some modern brasses of the Spilsbury
family (1864-78), and on the nave floor two white grave stones, with
defaced inscriptions, one of which is to John Stephenson gent. sometime
organist (1699), and in the chancel is a mural monument to Anne Turpin
(1745) : the south window is a memorial to John Wilks (1846) : the
communion plate dates from 1699 : there are 220 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1680. The living is a discharged
vicarage, endowed with £800 royal bounty, vested in land at
Ashby, Leicester, gross yearly value £106, including 75 acres
of glebe, with residence, in the gilt of W. Cecil Salt esq. and held
since 1890 by the Rev. Thomas Geo. Strong. There are Wesleyan and
Baptist chapels here. Gisborne's Charity, of £5 10s. yearly,
left in 1786, is for clothing, and £8 10s. from other sources
is distributed in money. Sir Francis Burdett bart. who is lord of
the manor, and the Repton and Etwall Corporation (School & Hospital),
are the principal landowners. The soil is chiefly light; sub-soil,
gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley, clover and turnips. The
acreage is 1,326 ; rateable value, £7,824 ; the population in
1881 was 515. Parish Clerk, Thomas Worlidge. POST, M. O. & T. O., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office. -Miss Ann Hollis, receiver. Letters from Burton-upon-Trent, arrive at 7.30 a.m. & 1.45 p.m. ; dispatched at 10.45 a.m. & 4.30 & 8.40 p.m National School (mixed), erected in 1871, at a cost of £280 raised by subscription; a class room being added in 1883 ; it will hold 100 children; average attendance, 75 ; Arthur Will Sealey, master RaiIway Station, William Cook, station master PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bull James Bull William Clifford John Whiteside, The Laurels Dudeney Mrs Every Miss Hand Miss Herbert George Horrobin Mrs Keeling Francis Messiter George S. Willington house Salt William Cecil, WilIington hall Smallwood Rev. Arthur Strong Rev. Thomas George, Vicarage Watson Joseph Watson Mrs COMMERCIAL. Aris Edward, shopkeeper Barnett Jas. Wm. farme & coal merchant Bull Gilbert, dairyman Bull Simeon, farmer Bull Thomas, butcher Burrows James, shopkeeper Chambers John, shoe maker & farmer Collier William, Green Man P.H Eldridge George, painter Gaskin Seth, builder Haynes Exuperious, cattle dealer Haynes Harriet (Mrs.), shopkeeper Haynes John, dairyman Kirkland Samuel, wheelwright Knight Jonah. beer retailer Knighton Walter, baker Martin Ellen (Mrs.), shopkeeper Merryman Richard, Green Dragon P.H Messiter George S. preparatory school for the public schools, Willington ho Morris Henry, blacksmith & wheelwright Peat Joseph, cattle dealer Shorthouse Ann (Mrs.), farmer Stone Robert, Rising Sun P.H Summerfield Samuuel, butcher Vickers Samuel, farmer Watson John (Mrs.), farmer Wayte Thomas, farmer White George LleweIlyn, coal & meal mer Worlidge Thomas, shoe maker [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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