250 MACKWORTH. . (KELLY's . MACKWORTH is a parish comprising the townships of by Mrs. Wm. Mundy, in memory of her husband, in I878: MACKWORTH and MARKEATON, on the road from to the stained east window is a memorial to F. N. Clarke Ashborne, 2 miles west-north-west from Derby and 128 Mundy esq. and a canopy over the vestry door, in richly from London, in the Southern division of the county, hun­ carved alabaster, was erected in 1889 in memory of Mrs. dred of l\Iorleston and , Belper union, Derby petty Wm. Mundy: there are 300 sittings. The register dates sessional division and county court district, rural deanery of from the year r6n, is in good condition, and remarkably Duffield, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. well written. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value The church of All Saints is a building of stone, consisting of £170, including 15 acres of glebe, with residence (rebuilt in chancel, nave, south porch with parvise, aisles, vestry, r88o, at a cost of about £z,ooo), in the gift of Francis Noel organ chamber and a fine battlemented tower, surmounted Mundy esq. D.L. who is also the lay impropriator, and held by a short octagonal spire and containing a clock, put in at since r887 by the Rev. Glencairn Alexander Shaw 11LA. of a cost of £135 in 1872, and 3 bells, respectively dated 1662, St. John's College, Oxford. Crowshaw's charity of £28 x6r2 and 16r6: the present nave, with the tower and spire, yearly is for bread; other charities, of £36 yearly value, are date almost exclusively from the end of the Decorated distributed in money. In the village are the remains of a period (r36o), the chancel being about fifty years earlier: fine old gateway, formerly an entrance to Mackworth the nave is separated from the aislel' by three arches on each Castle. .Francis Noel Mundy esq. D.L., J.P. is lord of the side supported on octagonal piers and responds, and opens manor and principal landowner. The soil is loamy; sub­ into the chancel through an areh without corbels or capitals, soil, various. The chief crops are oats, wheat, barley and a large pointed doorway at the west end leading into the pasture. The area is-Mackworth, 1,383 acres; Markeatou, tower: of the aisle windows, some are Decorated, others 2,034 acres; rateable value of Mackworth, ,£2,630 and of Perpendicular, the east window of the chancel, renewed in Markeaton, ,£5,436; the population in 1881 was 253 in the 185I, being a beautiful example of Early Decorated tracery: township of Mackworth, and I ,oii in the parish. the tower is pierced on the west and south sides with cross Markeaton is a township in the parish of MfotCkworth. loop-boles, a feature of rare occurrence in ecclesiastical Markeaton Hall, a large brick mansion with a park of 100 architecture : the chancel has three ascending sedilia, and acres in front, is the seat of Francis Noel Mundy esq. D.L., beyond these a piscina, all under trefoiled arches : in the J.P. (lord of the manor), and was erected in 1755: in the north aisle are two richly carved Perpendicular niches of park is a small lake 4~ acres. Thornhill, the seat of Miss unequal height : against the north wall is a curious arched Isabel Mosley, commands a fine view of Derby, from which recess, and above it a projecting canopy, known as the it is distant one mile west-by-south. The population in t88r "Abbot's seat," and probably the official seat of the abbots was 758, including 508 officers and inmates of the Derby of Darley, to whom this church was appropriated : in the workhouse and borough asylum. south aisle is an arched sepulchral recess, with a continuous BowBRIDGE and WHEAT HrLL are places in the parish, flowered moulding, and beneath it an alabaster slab, with a about r mile west-north~ west. sculptured head of a priest, an incised cross and a mutilated Parish Clerk, Arthur Roome. inscription, believed to be the tomb of Thomas Touchet, PosT & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.­ rector here from 138r to r409: in the south aisle is a raised Arthur Roome, postmaster. Letters received from Derby tomb of alabaster to Edward Mundy esq. (r6o7), and Jane at 4.20 a.m.; dispatched at 8.15 p.m. The nearest his wife ( 16u ), with his effigy in a long gown, and ruffs telegraph office is at railway station round the neck and wrists : the east window of the south ScHOOLS:- aisle displays in stained glass the various impalements of Parochial (mixed), Mackworth, erected in 1868, for 100 arms of the Mundys of Markeaton, from the time of Edward children; average attendance, 50, & supported by Francis I. : the parish chest dates from 1640 : the . church was Noel Mundy esq.; George Dutton, master; Mrs, Eliza­ thoroughly restored in r85r : the font, of Caen stone, was beth Dutton, mistress presented in r852: a new pulpit of alabaster and marble, Girls', Markeaton, erected for 50 girls ; average attend­ elaborately designed and inlaid with marbles, in the Floren­ ance, 25; attached is a residence for the teachers; Mrs. tine style, by :.\Irs. F. N. Mundy, in 1876, and the reredos Elizabeth Dutton, mistress Mackworth. J ohnson Mark, farmer Markeaton. J ohnson Lamech, nursery & seedsman Mosley Miss, Thornhill Edwards Henry Vincent Johnson Thomas, farmer Mundy Francis Noel D.L., J.:P. Mark· Greaves Frederick Wm. Mackworth ho Kelly Patrick, farmer eaton hall Shaw Rev. Glencairn Alexander M.A. Knowles Thomas, farmer, Wheat hill Abel Thomas, farmer Vicarage Maddocks Richard, farmer Abel William, farmer Thomson Lient.-Gen. James Sinclair Morley John, farmer, Castle farm Brickwood Thomas, farmer, Thornhill ;r.P. Bowbridge Morley Joseph, Mundy Arms P,H. far- Bryer George, farmer, The Park mer & cattle dealer COl\IMERCIAL. Bryer William, farmer Smith Ellen (Mrs.), farmer Byard William, farmer, Humbleton Bond William, farmer & wheelwright Smith George, farmer Prince Thomas, farmer, Vickerwood Goodall William, farmer Spalton John, farmer Turnbull William, land steward to Hanson John & Son, farmers Spalton J oseph, farmer Francis Noel Mundy esq. D.L., J.P Hanson Samuel, farmer 'fomlisson George, farmer I Whitehurst John, farmer Hanson Thomas, farmer MAPLETON is a village and parish, on the borders of 24th October, r727, left the residue of certain lands and Staffordshire, r! miles north~west from Ashborne station, premises to be applied in building a convenient house on the Churnet Valley section of the North Staffordshire arranged as a residence for three widows of clergymen of railway, and 148 from London, in the Western division of the Church of , asgigning to each the sum of .£go the county, Wirksworth hundred, Ashborne union, petty annually. The river Dove furnishes excellent sport for the sessional division and county court district, rural deanery angler, and good quarters will be found at the Okeover of Ashborne, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of South­ Arms, Temperance Hotel, in this village. Mapleton Cot­ well. The church of St. Mary, erected about the beginning tage, the residence of Lady Waterpark, and Hinchley Wood of the last century, on the site of the ancient church, is a House, the residence of Mrs. Goodwin, are pleasantly situ­ small oblong building of stone, consisting of nave, western ated in the village. The Rev. Henry Buckston M. A. vica.r of porch, and a dome, surmounted by a small campanile, con­ Hope, is lord of the manor; H. C. Okeover esq. J.P. of Oke· taining one bell, dated r842 ; there are a few fragments of over Hall, is chief landowner. The soil is clay ; subsoil, stained glass and on the north side of the church is a marble gravel, clay and limestone. The land is chiefly kept in A. monument with a brass tablet, to Henry• John Goodwin n pasture for dairy produce. The acreage is 778 ; rateable d. 23 :,)lay, r863: the church was restored in 1876, and will value, £2,045 ; the population in I88r was 196. seat 120 persons. The register dates from the year 1704, Parish Clerk, John Twigg. and is kept at Asbborne. The living is a rectory, consoli­ dated with the vicarage of .Ashborne, average tithe rent- PosT OFFICE.-Mrs. Fanny Grindey, sub-postmistress. charge £79, with 14 acres of glebe, gross income £ 340, joint Letters arrive from Ashborne at 7 a. m. ; dispatched at net yearly value .£8o, in the gift of the Bishop of Southwell, 540 p.m. ; there is no sunday delivery. Ashborne is the and held since 1878 by the Rev. Francis Jourdain M.A. of nearest money order & telegraph office Pembroke College, Oxford, and chaplain of Ashborne union, National School (mixed), erected in 1876, for 50 children; who reside!! at Ashborne. Rowland Okeover, by will dated average attendance, 30; Miss Amelia Hooper, mistress PRIV"ATE RESIDENTS. Goodwin Mrs. Hinchley Wood house COMMERCIAL. Capper Col. Harcourt (rst Hereford- Heather Mrs Barnes Joseph Charles, grocer, tea shire Volunteers), Callow hall Hurd Miss dealer & provision merchant, farmer Fo:,ter Philip, Rose cottag-e Murray Mrs & miller (water) Goodwin-GladwinCapt. Richard Henry Waterpark Lady, Mapleton cottage Bassett Arthur, joiner &c l.P. Hinchley wood Wheen Richard Bassett John, farmer