DIRECTORY.] DERBYSHIRE. BASLOW. 45 are 350 sittings: the church was restored and enlarged BAS~OW & BUBNELL URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL. in 1853, chiefly at the expense of the Duke of Devon­ Offices, Schoolroom. Meetings the last wednesday in shire: the chancel was restored in 1864 and reseated with each month. oak choir stalls and a carved oak reredos at a cost of Members. £350: the churchyard, enlarged in 1876 by the inclosure Chairman, Edmund Hodgkinson. of about a quarter of an acre, is very picturesque, owing to a fine row of stately elms on the side adjoining the tArthur John Tomlinson ItRobert Rowland river, with old yews and trees here and there, and contains tRichard Tomlinson *John Bateman Bagsbaw some ancient stone coffins and a few curious slabs of stone: tEdmund Hodgkinson I *John Hy. Royle Tasker south of the churchyard remain the basement steps' of au Marked thus t retire in April, 1900. old cross, now supporting a modern pedestal and shaft, Marked thus t retire in April, 1901. with a sundial. The register, now in a dilapidated con­ Marked thus * retire in April, 1902. dition, dates from 1659, and contains numerous irrele­ Officers. vant interpolations. The living is a vicarage, net yearly Clerk, Vernon Reilly Cockerton, Bridge st. Eakewell value £310, with residence, in the gift of the Duke of Treasurer, Alfred Joseph Adams, Crompton & Evans' Devonshire K.G. and held since 1859 by the Rev. Jere­ Union Bank, Bakewell miah Stockdale M.A. of St. Catharine's College, Cam­ Medical Officer of Health, Philip Sheldon Fentem M.D. bridge, rural dean of Eyam, andi surrogate. Here King street, B3kewell is a Wesleyan chapel. The charities are of considerable Surveyor, Joseph Eades, Baslow yearly value. The Baslow Hydropathic Hotel, erected in Sanitary Inspector, John Clark, Baslow 1881, occupies a commanding situation under the shelter Collector, Israel Randle, Baslow of the Yeld wood, and affords a picturesque view of Chatsworth Park. The Duke of Devonshire K.G. who is County Police, George E. Stevens, constable lord of the manor, and the Duke of Rutland K.G., G.C.B. are the principal landowners. The soil is clay and sand, PUBLIC OFFICERS. . on strata of sandstone and grindstone. The area, with Certifying Factory Surgeon & Public Vaccinator, Baslow the hamlet of Bubnell, is 5,609 acres of land .and 26 of District, Bakewell Union, Edward Mason Wrench water; rateable value, £4,699; the population in 1891 F.R.C.S.Eng was 86-4. Collector of Poor Rates, Thomas M3rples Medical Officer, Baslow District, Ilakewell Union, Edward Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel Branson Wrench M.B., B.C.Cantab Post, S. B. & Insurance & Annuity Office (Sub-Office. Church of Schools (mixed), built with master's Letters should have S.O. Derbyshire added).-Mrs. house, in 1876, for 150 boys, girls & infants, average Ellen Taylor, sub-postmistress. Letters are received attendance, IQ7 ; John Rhodes Matthewman, master from Chesterfield at 6.20 a.m. 0& from Bakewell 4 p.m. ; Conveyance.-'Buses meet trains three times daily at dispatched to North-West of England, Scotland, Ire­ Bakewell & Grindleford stations, from the Hydro & land &c. at 5.20 p.m. & to London &c. at II.15 a.m. Devonshire Arms hotel, & in summer twice daily at & 9 p.m. Money orders paid & granted from 8 a.m. Rowsley station, from the Peacock hotel; omnibus from till 8 p.m Eyam passes through to Che!terfield on sat. returning Wall Box, N~ther end, cleared at 9 p.m same day BASLOW ST. ANNE. Frith John, engineer to Chesterfield Rowland Robert, Wheatsheaf hotel Brightmore Henry rural district council & to the Duke & Rotherham Joint Stock Rousley Miss of Devonshire Banking 00. Limited (branch) (C. Mortimer Mr8 Froggatt John, farmer, Gorse bank H. Glossop, manilger, Bakewell); Pawson Henry, The Croft Gardom 'I'homas, farmer draw on London & Westminster Ponsonby Samuel Gregory William, farmer, The Yeld Banlr Limited & Barclay & Co. Lim. Schofield William F GIossop William, tailor London EC Sail Leonard Goodlad Edwin, saddler Sheffield Telephone Exchange &; Elec4 Stockdale Rev. Jeremiah M.A. (vicar Hawley William Marsden, Prince of tric Light Co.; call office & rural dean of Eyam & surrogate), Wales P.H. Sheldon George, builder & contractor Vicarage Hearnshaw Thomas, farmer Staley Stephen, carpenter &; wheel- Tasker Henry Hearnshaw William, butcher wright & collector of water rates Wainwright John Herrington Rannah (Mrs.), farmer Stroyan Esther(Mrs.),draper & tea dlr Ward David Hibberd Saml. builder & wheelwright Strutt Elizh. (Mrs.), refreshment ho Ward Mrs. Moorlands Hodgkinson Edmund, miller (water) Taylor Ellen (Mrs.), sub-postmistress Wheen Alfred Hodgkinson Edmund, shopkeeper Taylor Joseph, boot & shoe maker Wrench Ellward llranson M.B., B.C. Hodgkinson John, farmer Tomlinson Richard, Rutland Arms P.R Cantab Hillmes William, farmer Tomlinson William, butcher Wrench Edward Mason F.R.C.S.Eng Howard Thomas, cab proprietor Towndrow Joseph, farmer, Qlod hall COMMERCIAL. Key Charles, farmer Vidk. Frank, Royal hotel .A1sop Arthur, joiner Marples J ames, blacksmith White Wm. farmer & shopkeeper Bagshawe John B. farmer,BubneJl cliff Marples John, millwright & engineer Wrench Edward Branson M.B., B.O. BasloW! Gas Co. Lim. (Caleb Earnshaw, Marples Robert, saw mill Cantab., M.R.C.S.Eng. surgeon & manager) Marples Thomas, tailor & shopkeeper district medical officer, Ilaslow dis~ Baslow HydropathicHotel (Mrs.Elliott, & collector of poor rates trict, Bakewell union manageress) Meot F. L. & J. (Misses), apartments, Wrench Edward Mason F.R.C.S.Eng., CIark John, painter &; glazier & inspec­ Woodlands L.S.A. surgeon & public vaccinator, tor of nuisances to urban district National Telephone Co.Lim. ; call office Baslow district. Bakewell union &; council Olliphant Charles, Robin Hood P.H. certifying factory surgeon Coates Mary (Mrs.), druggist & grocer & farmer Eades Joseph, Peacock hotel, & sur- Palmer Alfred, farmer 0& mail driver BUBNELL. veyor to urban district council Pinchbeck J ohn,Devonshire Arms hotel Elliott Sarah (Mrs.), farmer P.R Furness Samuel, farmer Ellis Thomas, shopkeeper Randle Israel, collector to urban dis­ Helliwell Miss Emma, farmer Fearn Mary Ann (Mrs.), frmr. Park gt trict council Kitchen Emma (Mrs.), frmr. Brambley Fowler Charles, beer retlr. Alma hotel Rowland Harry, grocer, baker & con­ Tomlinson Arth. farmer, Bubwell hall Froggatt Hezekiah, farmer \fectioner Tomlinson Wm. Smith, frmr. &; butchr BEAUCHIEF, formerly extra-parochial, is now a ecclesiastical jurisdiction, net income £50, in the gift cf parish, 4 miles south-by-west from Sheffield and 3! Col. E. S. Pegge-Burnell, and held by the Rev. William .north-1I'est from Dronfield station on the Midland rail­ Mercer M.A. of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge, and way, in the North Eastern division of the county, on vicar of Norton Woodseats. Beauchief Abbey was founded: the burder~ of Yorkshire, situated in the vale of the by Robert FitzRanulph, lord of , Norton, and Sheaf, a station on the Midland railway, in the Eckington MarnAham. between the years II72 and u76. and petty sessional division, hundred of Scarsdale, union of assigned about. u83 to canons of the Premonstratensian Bierlow and Sheffield county court district. order: who received their name from Premonstre (Pre­ The chap!:! of St. Thomas, erected in 1660 out of part ef monstmtum}, a desert valley in Picardy, bestowed upon the ruins of the abbey, is a small building, with a St. Norbert, the founder of the order, by the Bishop of western tower in the Norman style. The register dates Laon, and so called because pointed out, as it was said. from th~ year 1812 for baptisms and from I8I4 for by the Blessed Virgin, to be the head of this reformed burials. The living is a donative and exempt from any ordel' : of this monastic house, dedicated to St. Mary •