:BBAOXIYFIELD. . [:S:ILLY'I Leacroft Rev. Charles Holcombe M.A. Harvey Eliza (Mrs.), farmer 'Richardson Waiter, farmer Vicarage Haslam James, farmer, & farm bailiff Riggott John, farmer, Woolley Turbutt Wm. Glad win J.P. Ogston hall to R. C. Hubbersty esq. & William Saunders Samuel, farmer de Burgh Jessop esq. J.P. Woolley Shaw Charles, farmer COMMERCIAL. Hobson William, farmer Shemwell Herbert, farmer, Woolley Barker George, farmer, 'Yoolley Hopkinson Henry, farmer, Woolley Slater Samson, farmer Barker William, farmer Hopkinson Robert, farmer Spencer John, farmer lleresford Joel, blacksmith, Woolley Limb George, farmer Spencer William, farmer, Woolley Boot Henry, farmer Limb John, farmer, Church farm Stamford Ely, farmer Breedon .John, farmer, Roadnook Limb John, jun. farmer Taylor Thomas, Plough inn, & farmer, :Burton .A.hraham, shopkeeper & farmer Limb Thomas, farmer :Moor house Colledge Thomas, farmer Marriott William, farmer, Woolley Taylor William, .farmer Draycott John, farmer, Woolley :Marshall George, farmer & assistant Wilson Luke, farmer Fox Joseph, farmer overseer & collector of rates Wright John, farmer Grocott J ames, farmer Millward Henry, farmer BRADBOURNE is a township, parish and village, 6 K.G. and held since 1878 by the Rev. Francis Crombie M.A.. miles south-west from Wirksworth, 5 north-north-east from of Trinity College, Cambridge. The church of Bradbourne .Ashborne railway station, in the Western division of the was given by Geffrey de Cauceis to the priory of Dunstable county, hundred and county court district of Wirksworth, in the year 1205, and remained a1mexed to the priory until Ashborne union and petty sessional division, rural deancl'y the Reformation, the churches of the parish (.Bradbourne,. of Ashborne, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of South- Brassington, Tissington, Ballidon and ) being- served well. The church of All Saints is a building in the Early by a company of three canons, who were sent from Dunstable English and Perpendicular styles, with considerable remains [ and resided at the rectory at llradbourne; this appropria­ of tlaxon and Norman work, and consists of chancel, with tion of the rectory to Duns table priory occurred in 1278, organ chamber, clerestoried nave, south aisle, south porch and was confirmed by the Bishop in 1294, a vicarage being and a fine tower at the west end containing 5 bells, dating specially endowed in 1330 : shortly after the Reformation from 1708 to 1863: the tower is a massive Norman structure, the rectory and glebe lands were purchased by George the lower stage .'::laxon, and there is a turret staircase in the Buckston, an ancestor of Mr. Bnckston the present pos­ nurlh-east angle; it~ south doorway has three orders of sessor. Bradbourne Hall, which is the residence of Albert mouldings, one of beak-heads, and two others displaying Hartshorne esq. F.S.A. is a picturesque Elizabethan house~ nondescript animals; the parapet, set up about 14_50, rests with a fine Jacobean staircase, and commands charming upon the original Xorman <:orbel table: the north side shows and extensive views of the district; on the premises is the beginning of the Saxon nave and Early English and late preserved a 1\"orman font, with shallow arcadin6. Buxton's Decorated features, indicating rebuilding and insertions: Char1ty, of £r yearly, l~ft in 1665, payable out of the straight joints in the masonry prove the extent of theNor man Shel hroad Close, iu Lhe parfsh or Brass ington, and Gisborne's. nave: the south aisle ia separated from the naYe by an of £7 ss. left 7th May, 1818, by the Rev. 'Francis Gisborne, arcade of three arches; the south clerestory windows, and sometime rector of Staveley, are for distribution. Sir others in the south aisle, as well as the battlements of the William Fitz-Herbert bart. J. P. is lord of the manor, Th~ nave, are Perpendicular: the stained east window has principal landowners are Sir W1lliarn Fitz-Herbert hart. J,p. Decorated tracery, and there is a smaller stained window S. H. Cbandos-Pole-Gell esq. Rev. R. G. lluckston, Rev •. on the north side of the chancel; and in another window James Fitzherbert and Sir •r. ·w. Evans bart. The soil is oa the south side are remains of ancient glass, dating from mixed ; subsoil, shale, clay and limestone. The land iB about 1400 and exhibiting the arms of the family of chiefly kept in pasture for dairy prQduce. The area is Edensor: the font is formed of a single large square block 2,834 acres; rateable value, [2, II7; the population in I88x.- of stone, ornamented on the sides with circles inclosing of the township was 137, and of the parish 317. . quatrefoils: there are five mural monuments to the Buck- BALLIDON is a township and chapelry, which wilL be stone family, dating from 1643 to 1877, in which year a found under a separate heading. vestry and organ chamber were added, and the chancel ALDW ARK is a township, in the union of Bake well, with furnished with oak choir desks and re-t;loored • a new 945 acres; rateabw value, £7o6; and 52 inhabitants. · reredos was also added, the whole costing about £6oo; the LEA. HALL is a township belonging ecclesiastically to. church had previously been completely restored in 1846, at Bradbourne; the area is 450 ac1·es; rateable value, £625;; a cost of [300: there are 205 sittings: in the churchyard and the population in 188r was 18. stands the upper portion of a fine and early cross, probably Sexton, John Bainbridge. of the 8th century; the middle portion, split into two PosT 0FFICE.-Miss Alice Norcliff, receiver. Letterg pieces, was long used as stile-posts; these display scriptural through Ashborne arrive at 8.30 a. m. Box cleared at tigures rudely carved, and interlaced foliage similar to 4.45 p.m. week days only. Postal orders are issued that on the cross at Bakewell; in 1886 they were rescued here, but not paid. The nearest money order & telegraph from their ignoble position by A. Hartshorne esq. F.S.A. and office is Parwich placed in the church, together1 with an arm of the cross, Free School (mixed), built in 1842 by the late William which bad been taken to . The register Evans csq. for about so children; average attendance, 22: dates from 1he year 1720, and has been very badly kept. it has no regular endowment, but £4o yearly is given by The living is a vicarage, with the chapelry of Ballidon Sir T. W. Evans bart. F.R.G.s.; Miss Mary Mundell, mist annexed, average tithe rent-charge £8o, net yearly value CARRIRRS-'ro \Virksworth, James Twigge, every tues. & £n7, with residence, in the gift of the Duke of Devonshire to Ashborne, Francis Watson, every sat Crombie Rev. Francis M.A.. [vicar] Hardy Joshua, farmer, Aldwark \Yagstaff Francis, farmer, Aldwark HartshorneAlbertF.S.A.Bradbournehall Hodgkinson Jumes, farmer, Aldwark Wain Robert, farmer, Lee cottage COMMERCIAL. Holmes Daniel, cow keeper, Aid wark Webster Francis,farmer, Crow'I'rees frm. Barnsley Wm. & Son, farmers,Aldwark Lamb John, farmer, Park fann Webster Henry, farmer, Bank top Burton William, farmer LomasRd.farmer,Bradbourne.Mill farm Wright Frank, corn merchant &c.; & at Buxton Benjamin, farmer, Aldwark Norcliff Thomas, assistant overseer Ashborne '- Dakins George, farmer, Aldwark Ouslem John, farmer, Lee hall Vl'right Jas. farmer, Sand Pit Low irll1i Dale Frank, farmer', Gorse hill Robinson John, farmer WrightWm.farmer,HavenGrange farm. !<'earn Charlotte(Mrs. ),shpkpr.&cowkpr 'frafford Arthur, joiner & builder Wright Wm. jun. farmer, Clapgate Gerrard John, farmer Torr \Villiam, farmer, Bank top "l BRADLEY is an agricultural parish and picturesque but · shaft of which has all the appearance of the uppel' part of llf scattered villag-e on the Belper poad, 3 miles east from clustered pier, the bowl is divided into eight compartment!l Ashborne, in the Western division of the county, Appletree by round-headed trefoil arches: the church contains a hundred, Ashborne union, petty sessional division and wooden mural achievement of the Knivetons, about 3w county court district, rural deanery of Ashborne, arch- years old, gaudily repainted ; Sir Andrew died a1i deaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. Tbe church Bradley in r6g6, and there is a monument to his eldest son; of All Saints, an edifiee in the Decorated style of the early Godfrey, who died in I]08, besides others to William 14th eentury, consists of a small chancel and nave under a Byrom, who died in the 17th century, Thomas Byrom, his: single roof, south porch and a wooden turret at the west son (1714) and Dorothy his wife (r73o), and Emma Harriet end containing 3 bells, two of which date from 1722, the SQ"arnbella (1821): in the chancel are the arms of the tenor being undated : the east window has three lights, the Meynell family: the communion plate of silver gilt was the mullions intersecting each other diagonally in the head; the gift of Lady Frances Kniveton and is dated 1572. The windows on either side the nave are all good examples of register dates from the year 1579, but its earlier portions Decorated work: the eastern wall of the chancel retains two are in a very dilapidated condition ; the last. Kniveton entry stone brackets, carved with -bearded faces, but the most is in 1633: Thomas Bancroft, an epigrammatic poet whQ interesting feature of the interior is a fine circular font, the flourished here in the 17th century, is styled in the register