DIRECTORY.] DERBYSHIRE. CHAPEL-EX-LE-FRITH. 81 The nparest money order & telegraph office is at in 1872, enlarged in 1889, for 160 children; averag9 Spondon attendance, 96 mixed & 5 I infants; Edward Willett», Church of England (mixed & infants), School, erected master co~nIEnCIAL. Hunt Ebenezer, farmer FRIVATE RESIDE~TS. Allen Thr.mas, farmer & butcher Jacksl)n William, farmer, Brook farm Longaon Joseph Argile ·William, farmer Lano George H. farmer, Roe farm Martin Miss .A.shworth Jas. mining engnr. Highfld Martin Charles, farmer, 'The Moor Whinyates Col. Francis Arthur, The Best w':~k John, fsrmer, Hill :"'layer \"'m. farmer & horse de:l1er :Moor house nwison \Villiam, blacksmith Older.;;h~w .Tohn & George, builders Wilmot Col. Sir Henry bart. V. C., Doncaster vVilliam, carter Oldershaw Herbert, butcher & farmer, C.R, D.L., J.P. Chaddesden hall; Green \Yilliam, tailor, The Moor Cherry Tree hill &; Carlton & Arthur's club~, Lon- Ihynes John, \Yhitehurst, 'Vilmot Painter Joseph, farmer don SW Ar:ns P.H Smith Thomas Seth, farmer Wilmot Rev. l'rancis Edmund \1'il- Hodg1dn William, wheelwright Webb John, market gardener Earn M.A. (vicar) Holmes Robert, farmer Whitman Miss Mary A. shopkeeper CHAPEL-EN-LE-FRITH is a small market and of the late Henry Constantine Renshaw esq. J.P. by whom un'ion town and head of a county court district and it was rebuilt on the site of an ancient house, is at present parish, 6 miles north from Buxton and 166 from. London (1895) unoccupied. Bowden Hall, the property of the by road, in the High Peak division of the county, hun- Rev. VV. S. Barnes Slacke M.A. of Fulsham House, dred of nigh Peak, head of a petty sessional division, Wilmslow, Cheshire, and vicar of St. John's, Lindow, is the rural deanery of Buxtorr, archdpaconry oll Derby and residence of Charles Mortimer-Booth esq. Slacke Hall be­ diocese of Southwell. The London and North vVest- longs to the same owner, and is the residence of ern and the Midland railways have stations here; the Benjamin Crapper esq. Eccles House, the seat of Godfrey former is three quarters of a mile from the town. The Goodman esq. has been the property of his ancestors Dore and Chinley branch of the Midland railway, opened for over 300 years, and was rebuilt in the latter end in 1894, is 20 miles in length and gives direct communi- of the 17th century. Ford Hall, the seat of "\Villiam cation between Dore (on the Sheffield and Ambergate Henry Greaves Bagshawe esq. J.P. is delightfully situ­ branch) and Chinley and Milton (near Chapel-en-le- atI'd in a well-woodI'd dell; portions of the house date Frith, on the Manchester and Ambergate branch); the from the end of the 15th century, and others are line passes through Hathersage, Hope, Castleton, and Elizabethan. Harwich House, the seat of Col. Edward Edale, passing over a fine viaduct at Chinley, and Hall J.P. stand!; on high ground overlooking the borden through two very long tunnels, one at Totley 3i miles in of Cheshire. The Ridge, a modern house, finely seated length, and one at Cowburn 2-to miles long: the engineers on a hill overlooking the town, is the residence of were Messrs. Parry and St,orey, of Derby and Notting- Joseph George Sington esq. and the property of James ham. The Peak Forest tramway, for the conveyance of \Valter Lowe esq. who resides in the adjoining and an­ minerals and goods only, passes through the tOWIl. The cient house called Ridge Hall. Bradshaw Hall, now lJ. tDwn derives wat-er from springs rising in Combs Moss, farm house, occupied by Mr. George Lomas, is the pro­ a hill about one mile to the south-east; the water is perty of Charles Eyre Bradshaw Bowles esq. of Aston litored in a reservoir and conveyed to the town in pipes Lodge, Derby, the lineal descendant of the ancient f~mily by the Chapel-en-le-Frith Water Company. Gas is sup- of Bradshaw, who held the attached estate of about 300 plied from workS! on the north side of the town, the acres from a period anterior to the reign of Edward Ill. property of the Chapel-en-Ie-Frith Gas Company. The as appears from numerouS! deeds in the possession of church of St. Thomas a Becket is a building of stone, the present owner: the house has often been erroneously chiefly of modern date, with the exception of the chan- represented as once the residence of John Bradshaw the eel, which dates from 1224, it consists of chancel, nave Iregicide, who was born at Stockport in 1586, and died. cl three bays, aisles, sout.h porch and a western tower II Oct. 1659, and was descended, with the present owner, with pinnacles, containing a clock and 6 bells: there from a common ancestor, William Bradshaw of Bradshaw, are several mural tablets to the Bagshawe family, dating who died c. 1562-3; the last of the name who lived here from 1628 to 1818, and stoneS' in the churchyard dating was Francis Bradshaw, high sheriff in 1630, who was from 1662: the church was restored in 1886 and 1890 second cousin to the regicide, and died sine prole in 1635. at a cost of £1,3°0 and further rl'stored in 1894, and R.M. the Queen is lady of the manor in right of the now affords 750 sittings. The registers date from the Duchy of Lancaster. The principal landowners are the year 1620, and are in good preservation. The living is Rev. \V. S. Barnes-Slack M.A., W. H. Greaves Bagshawe a "Vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £11, with 75 acres esq. J.P. Stephen Jackson esq. of London, Henry Kirke of glebe, gross yearly value £293, net £277, with resi- esq. of' Demerara, Samuel Needham, Robert Hill Hyde dence, in the gift of such of the parishioners as are as- a,nd Charles Eyre Bradshaw Bowles esqs. The soil is sessed to poor rates, and held since 1891 by the Rev. dark loam; subsoil, grit and limestone. The land is James Given M.A., LL.D. of Trinity College, Dublin. chiefly used for grazing purposes, the arable growing There are "\Vesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, oats. The area of the township is 9,752 acres; rateable the former being a stone building with a turret, in the value, £25,585; the population in 1891 was 4,647, includ­ Decorated style: there is also a "\Vesleyan Methodist ing' 6 officers and 62 inmates in the workhouse. chapel at the Combs. The Town Hall, a large building Sexton, James Bramwell. of stone, erected in 1851, at the sole expense of' the late Post, M. O. & T. 0., S. R, Express Delivery & Annuity Thomas Slack esq. M.D. and enlarged in 1882, contains & Insurance Office.-Sarnuel .Tas. Bramwell, sub-post- suites of rooms wherein the County Court and magis- master. Letters are received through Stockport; arrive trates' meetings are held; the net receipts from rents of at 7 a.m. & 4.30 p.m. ; 8 a.m. on sundays; dispatched at this building were left by Dr. Slack for the benefit of 11.30 a.m. & 8.30 p.m.; 8.15 p.m. on sundays. Money three schoolS' in the neighbourhood, viz. the Kationa.l, orders are granted & paid from 9 a.m. till 8 p.m.; Chapel-en-le-Frith, the Bowden Head school and Chinley telegraph business transacted from 8 till 8; sundays Congregational Sunday school. In the Market place is a from 8 till ID a.m plain stone cross dated 1634. Here are paper mills, Post Office, Combs.-John Lomas, sub-postmaster. Let- manufactories of buckram, wadding and scrap iron and ters arrive from Stockport at 8.30 a.m. & 6. IQ p.m. ; a brewery. At Barmour Clough is an ebbing and flow- dispatched at 8 a.m. & 6. ID p.m. week days only. mg well, which has excited much attention. '1'he ancient Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. Chapel- ~ustom of ringing the curfew is still observed here every en-Ie-Frith is the nearest money order & telegraph evening. The fairs are Thursday before February 14th, office :March 3rd and 29th, Thursday before Ea,ster, April 30th, Post Office, Chapel Milton.-Mrs. Sarah 13ramwell, sub- Holy Thursda! three weeks afterward'S, July 7th, Thurs- postmistress. Letter:! arrive from Stockport at 7 a.m. ; day after October nth and Thursday before November dispatched at 9.30 a.m. & 7.30 p.m. Postal orders =Z3rd. Cattle marketr---first and third Thursday in each are issued here, but not paid. Chapel-en-Ie-Frith is month. A charity left in r696 by Mary Dixon realizes the nearest money OTder & telegraph office £27 IS. yearly, £25 IS.. of which goes tD the Kational Wall Lett.er Boxes :-Town End, cleared at 9.45 B.m. &; schools and £2 to the poor: William Walker in 1625 6 p.m.; Union Gates cleared at ID a.m. & 8.15 p.m. ; left £9 I7s. 8d. yearly to the poor: Francis Mosley in Sparrow Pit cleared at 6. IS p.m.; Wllitehough cleared 1704 left £26 a year, two-thirds for the incumbent and at 5.50 p.m.; ~Iilwn cleared at 7.20 p.m.; L. & N. one-third to the poor: Gisbofne's (1818) Charity for this 'V. Rly. Station 6.25 p.m.; New Smithy 6.20 p.m. ; parish is £7 55. there are also a number of minor chari- Collections are also made at Chinley &; Peak Forest, ties amounting to about £38 yearly.