DIRECTORY.] . SOUTH WINGFIELD. 381

TUPTON. ~""EW TUPTON. Metcalf Richd.BritanniaP.H. &; f"rmel' Beresford Joseph, New inn P.H Mosley Reuben, farmer, Haggs hill Bannister Reuben . Brailsford Henry, farmer, Hagg hill Rhodes George, boot &; shoe maker Barnes Arthur Gorell M.A., J.P. Tup- ClayCross Co-operativeSociety(brnch.) Saville Thos. (established 40 years), ton Hall Corbett (Mrs.) William,general dealer family grocer, tea, coffee, provision, lackson Geoffrey M. Ankerbold house Cowley Elizabeth (Mrs.), grocer & corn &; flour dealer &:; butcher, ham COMMERCIAL draper, Post office &; bacon curer &; factor, dealer in • Dalton John Albert, farmer drugs &; retailer of beer Bramley Herbert, farmer DavenportThos.&; Sons,buildrs.&joinrs Stacey George, shopkeeper ' Cook Joseph, farmer Ewing Fred, farmer Stopard Geo.draper &; furniture dealer Davidson Harry,farmr.Ankerbold farm Ewing Hannah (Mrs.), seedsman Stopard Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper Davidson Thomas, farmer, Ewing William, butcher Thomas Stanley, greengrocer Knighton George Enoch, l;1l1ck maker Handbury George, farmer Walters George William, draper Nadin Isaae, White Barb :P.H. & Hunt Samuel, shopkeeper WaIters Joseph, beer retailer &; grocer farmer, Station, ", Knighton Luke, grocer Wardle Sarah Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper Stacey Charles, blacksmith Maiden John, builder Willows Maria (Mrs.), shopkeeper Walker William, farmer, May Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper SOUTH WINGFIELD is an extensive parish, pleas- Mary, daughter of George, 6th Ear[ of Shrewsbury; ently s~tuated on an eminence, with a station on the main another part was sold about 1678 to Imanuel Ralton, of line of .he Midland railway, 21 miles west from Alfreton, Grey Stock, Cumberland, and the remaining part was 14 north from De-rby, 101 S'OUlth from Chesterfield, 7 oost bought in 17IO by Imanuel Ha.lton and the Leacroft.s of from Wirksworth and 141, by rllli1 from London, in the WirksworLh. The Haltons continued to reside in the­ Mid division of the OOlllIlty, Scar,sdale ihundred, Belper Old Manor House until OOI"ly in the present century, when­ union, Alfreton petty ,ses'Monal divisioo and county COUl"t Colonel Wingfield Halton moved 00 the little Manor district, rural deanery of .Alfreton, arCJhdeaconry of Derby House; his son, the late Imanuel Ralton, bequeathed the­ and diocese of Southwell. The passes through properly 00 Miles Halton Tristram, linooJ. descendant of tille parish. The ohllTch of ALl Saints, at Oakel"bhorpe, Lallce10t Halton, only brother of the a!oresalid Coloneil half a mile from tJhe vilLage, is a !building of stone, oonsist~ Wingfieild Balton; the modern Manor House is the resi­ ing of chancel, nave of five bays, aisles, Sone singularly Parliament. The principal landQwnel"S 9.l'8 Francie used to commemora.te three different ~nterments, its Nicholas Smith esq. Lieut.-Col. Henry Pearson and the Upper portion being incised with the rude figure of a trustees of Miles Halton Tristram esq. The soil is loamy; cross-bow, the centre bearing the initials C.M.A.. and the subsoil, chiefly clay, and rutchel stone abounds in many date 1634, and the lower paTt an insc:ripmon to Mary parts. The chief erops are wheat and pasture. The area.. Toplis (1760); hEllre is also another hLrge slab inscribed to is 3,345 acres of land and 19 of water; rateable value~ the Rev. Peter Cotes, viCllil", d. 26 Jan. 1675; from a. beam £10,970; the population in 1891 was 1,319. The Work­ in the south-west corner hangs a funem! garland, carried ing Men's Reading Room and Institute contains reading, et the funOO"all()! Ann Kendall, a maiden of tJhis village, d. news and bagatelle rooms and a library of about 400 14 May, 1745; the original font is disused; th~ church volumes; there are now (1899) 57 members. wall rebuilt in 1803; the chancel was restored by the Duke of Devonshire K.G. in 1877: in 1885 the nave was re­ is a hamlet in /this l?arish. The .tored and reseated at a cost of £320, and in 1898 the SQuth Wingfield stlition on the Midland railway is situart:ed chancel roof was entirely rebuilt at an expense of about !here. In the cellars of the Peacock hotel is an ancient £400 by the Duke of Devonshire K.G.: there are 220 and substantially built underground passage, believed to sittings: in the churchya!d. are two sepulchral stones of have originally communicated with the Manor House; un­ the 13th century, one a coped slab and the other bearing derneath the present stables is a crypt connected with the in high relief the full-length 'effigy of a knight in a eoif of honse by an undergronnd passage; the house itself has mail and wearing a hauberk. The register dates from internally some remarkable features and formerly had an the year 1585 for all entries and is in fair condition. The entrance hall of large size; the bar parlor of this hGtel living is a vicarage, net yearly value £180, including 55 was the original Post office of this village, and the ancient acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Duke of fittings remain. The Duke of Devonshire K.G. who is Devonshire K.G. and held smce 1875 by the Rev_ Fredk. lay impropria,tor of the great titheS' of Oakerthorpe, and White Christian M.A. of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. There R. C. Strelley esq. an-e the chief landowners. The South are Wesleyan Methodist and Free Methodist chapels Wingfield Colliery Co. Limited gives employment to a here, and a. Particular Baptist chapel at Birches number of the inhabitants. The population is reLurned lane. In 1685 Samuel Newton esq. of Barbadoes, with the parish. bequeathed £200 for the purchasing of land, the Parish Clerk, Robert Hawksley. yearly revenue uising from which should be dis­ Post &; 1\1. O. 0., S. B. &; Annuity & Insurance Office,. tribu.ted 6Illongst the pOOIl"; this CJharity, emountin~ to South Wingfield.-Mrs. Mary Platts, sub-postmistress. £5 yearly, is now 6dminstered under regulations frsmed Letters arrive from Alfreron at 8 a.m.; dispatched at by the Charity Commissioner.s, part being giv'ln tIJ the 6.10 p.m.; sundays, dispatched at 8.55 a.m. The poor and parb paid for teaching poor chil