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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Wingerworth, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.328 |
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WINGERWORTH is a small village and parish, with the hamlets of
HOCKLEY, NETHERMOOR, STUBBING and SWATHWICK : annexed : it is on the
river Rother, 2½ miles south from Chesterfield, in the Chesterfield
division of the county, Scarsdale hundred, Chesterfield union, petty
sessional division and county court district, rural deanery of Chesterfield,
archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. The Midland railway
runs through the parish. There was a church here, it appears, in 25
Edw. I. (1296-7), at which time Henry de Brailsford was possessed
of the advowson. The church of All Saints is an edifice of stone in
the Norman style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south
porch and an embattled western tower, containing 5 bells : a rood
loft crosses the chancel arch : on the north-west side is a fine monument
of marble erected in 1840 to General Gladwin, and there are also monuments
to the Brailsford and Hunloke families, and a mausoleum, erected in
1783, and renovated by the late Lady Scarisbrick : there are 130 sittings.
The earliest register dates from 1539 and is of vellum and in good
preservation, but the registers as a whole are far from perfect. The
living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £234, with 9
acres of glebe, net yearly value £215, in the gift of the Bishop
of Southwell, and held since 1878 by the Rev. Frederick Calder M.A.
of St. John's College, Cambridge. A rectory house was built in 1881,
in the Elizabethan style, at a cost of about £2,000. Gisborne's
charity of £6 11s. yearly, left in 1818 by the Rev. Francis
Gisborne, sometime rector of Staveley, is for clothing : Foljambe's
charity of £6 yearly and Lady Scarisbrick's of £7 yearly
are distributed in money (and Gladwin's of £2 16s.). The neighbourhood
abounds with stone quarries and coal mines. The Hon. Mrs. Hunloke
is lady of the manor. Wingerworth Hall, the property of the Hon. Mrs.
Hunloke and the residence of Charles Allen esq. is a handsome mansion
of stone, built in 1724 by Sir Thomas Windsor Hunloke bart. : it is
situated near the church, and from its elevated situation commands
an extensive view of the surrounding country. Stubbin Court, the residence
of Samuel Burkitt esq. is a delightfully-situated residence. The principal
landowners are the Hon. Mrs. Hunloke and Samuel Burkitt esq. J.P.
The soil is strong clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat
and oats. The area is 2,931 acres of land and 27 of water; rateable
value, £8,543 ; the population in 1881 was 410. Parish Clerk, William Froggatt. POST OFFlCE.-William Lenthall, receiver. Letters received from Chesterfield at 6,45 a.m. ; dispatched at 6.25 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Chesterfield. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid Parish Free School, erected in 1758, & provides free education for 20 poor children; supported by the Hon. Mrs. Hunloke ; the school will hold 85 children; average attendance, 50 ; Mrs. Elizabeth Heathcote, mistress Allen Charles, Wingerworth hall Burkitt Samuel, Stubbin court Calder Rev. Frederick M.A. [rector] COMMERCIAL. Barker Robert Winter, farmer Blythe Jermyn, blacksmith & farmer Brocklehurst Walter, joiner & wheelwrt Byard John, farmer, Harper hill Clare Lucy (Mrs.), shopkeeper Collis William, farmer, Stonedge Crookes John, farmer, Birdholme Davison John, farm bailiff to Samuel Burkitt. esq Dronfield Cornelius, farmer, Stonedge Everett Douglas, Wingerworth estate Fisher Thomas, farmer, Lydgate Foster Henry, farmer, Nethermoor Gill James, farmer, Harper hill Goodlad Ellen (Mrs.), farmer Hadfield Charles, tailor Hadfield Daniel, Barley Mow P.H Hardy Edwin, joiner Madin Francis, farmer, Hillhouses Madin Thomas, mason, Hockley Parkin Samuel, joiner Raines Thomas, farmer Siddall William, farmer Stephenson Hannah (Mrs.), frmr & millr Waddington Booth, stone merchant & quarry owner, Wingerworth stone quarries & saw mills Ward John E. head gamekeeper to Charles Allen esq Wilson Joseph, Hunloke Arms P.B. & farmer, Derby lane Winter Robert, farmer, Swathwick Woodward Edward, farmer, Stubbing [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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