DIRECTORY.] . BREADSALL. 65 Brownson Ja.mes Benjamin, quarry Grindy Isaac, farmer, Gratton Sparkla Soap Co. (Macrae k Hodgkin_ owner, Longcliffe Harrison Joseph, farmr. Moulderidge son, proprietors) Charlton G. &; A. gannister &I fire clay Heathcote Robt. farmer, Knockerdown Spencer John, butcher &; f8.rmi.'r merchants Hodgkinson James Banks, auctioneer Spencer Sarah (Mrs.), Gate P.H Charlton Alfred, Miner's Arms P .H. & &; farmer, Wallends Stone Samuel, Thorn Tree P.H assistant overseer Hodgkinson Samuel, sand merchant Taylor Elizabeth Ann (Mrs.), g.oce. Charlton George, farmer Howard John, farmer, Tith(\ farm Taylor Joshua, jun. blacksmith. Cope William, goods agent for London Industrial Co-operative Soci~ty Lim. Taylor Robert, wheelwright &; North Western Uailway Co. (Alfred Charlton, sec.; Arthur Torr William. farmer Longcliffe Hodgkinson, manager), West end Walker John, corn dealer Dale Aliea (Miss), dresS' maker Jebb Isaac, farmer, Nether lane Walker Robert, farmer Ellis Joseph, farmer, Clipshp.ad Knifton Sylvia(Mrs.), farmr.Wall Inds Walker William, farmer k shoe maker Evans George, farmer Littler William, farmer, West end Warner Samuel, wheelwright Fearn Dol. coal agt.for Hy.Wheatcroft MelIor George, shoe maker Waterfall John, farmer, Hoe grange Fearn Samuel Swan, grocer &; corn dlr Needham Joseph, farmer, Hipley Watson Francis, carrier &; farmer. Furnace Fire Brick Co. Limited, brick Ogden Thomas, Jug &:. Glass P.H. Kingshill manufacturers (H. Fowlds, sec.), Longcliffe Watson Francis. sen. landownef Longcliffe; &:; 65 Devonshire street, OuTsnam. &:. Fearn, joiners, wheel· WatsonFrancisHenry,farmer,West end Keighley, Yorks wrights &:. general smiths, Steam Watson Thomas, farmer, Corselow fm Gelsthorpe Timothy, farmer saw mills &:. timber yard Wayne Robert, shopkeeper Gould Luther, agent for F. Wright, Rains John, farmer, Moor Webster James, baker coal merchant &c Roper Frank, farmer, Slipperlow lVheatcroft N. &; Sons, coal merchants, Great RakeMiningCo.Lim.mine ownrs Seals Thomas William, farmer Longcliffe Green-Armytage Edward, gannister Seals William, farmer &:. pig dealer (The) Stone &:. Mineral sand &; fire clay works, Harboro' Slack John, farmer Co. Limited, quarry owners,Many­ Rocks estate. See advert.isement Slater Geo. Wright, landowner.&:. frmr stones quarry Gregory John, farmer, Harbro' farm Spencer Fras. frmr.prov.dlr.&:' carrier BREADSALL is a village and parish, with a station chancel: under the flooring at the west end was found OIL the Great Northern railway, 2~ miles north from an exquisitely carved "Pieta," or figure of the Virgin and 145 from London, in the Southern division of with the dead Christ on her knees, on which some the county, Appletree hundred, Shardlow union, Derby traces of colour and gilding still linger: this was re­ petty sessional division and county court district, rural stored to its original position at the east end of the deanery of , archdeaconry of Derby and diuces9 north aisle in 1885: a memorial window was erected in of SouthweIl. The river De'rwent, the Midland' railway, the north aisle in 1885., to Samuel Walker Cox esq. who and the Derby and Little Eaton canal run through the died 30 Aug. 1879: there are 420 sittings. The register parish. The church of .All Saints, a building of stone, dates from the year 1573, and is in good condition: consists of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch, and an there is however a gap from 1592 to 1601, and it is embattled tower at the west end, surmounted by a lofty more or less incomplete from 1629-1631 and 1636-7, and massive spire, with two tiers of spire lights, and besides later omissions: the late rector made a copy of containing 5 bells, dating from 1725 to 1786, and a the wh::-le of the two earliest registers, and an index to clock presented in 1887 by Henry Joseph Wood esq. of all the entries from 1573 to 1872. The living is a rectory, the Priory, at a 'Cost of £100: there was a church here net yearly value £620, arising from 400 acres of glebe at the time of the Domesday survey, but the most land, with residence, in the gift of Hugo Harpur ancient part of the church now extant is the fine south Crewe esq. and held since 1886 by the Rev. John doorway, which is not earlier than about 1150: in the Ayton Whitaker M.A. of St. John's College, Oxford. century following the church was again reconstructed in The Wesleyan ):lethodist chapel here was erected in the Early Pointed style, when the massive tower was 1826. There are charities amounting to over £70 yearly, erected, the battlements being of later date, and the left by Anne Johnson in 1696, by Anthony Walker in octagonal spire was not reared until the beginning of 1714, and by the Rev. John Walton in 1600. The Derby the Geometrical period (c. 125o): to this date also may Corporation Water Works are situated in this parish. be assigned' the south porch, and the three Pointed but being close to Little Eatan, particulars are given arches of the aisle arcade, parts of whose circular pillars with that village. The preS'ent Priory house, the resi­ 6'eem to indicate a much earlier origin: during the Per- dence of Sir Alfred Seale Haslam J.P. a building of pendicular period the walls were raised, clerestory late Elizabethan or Jacobean date, occupies the site of windows inserted, the roofs flattened, and the east the ancient Priory of Holy Trinity, founded here in the window inserted: the chancel has three stone sedilia, reign of Henry Ill. by F. Dethick for friars of the and a piscina under a Pointed! arch: the fon tr is a large Augustinian order; of the buildings nothing now re­ octagon of 15th century work: in the north wall of the mains above ground save a few loose fragments, bu' chancel is a recess with a plainly-moulded circular arch, more numerous evidences still exist in the basement of ronstructed as a resting-place for the founder when the the modern house. Near the lodge gate is a small chapel, Norman aisle was built: there are two inscribed monu- erected in 1836, and served occasionally by the rectors of mental stones to the Revs. Gilbert tMitchell (175 8), John Breadsall and Morley. Hugo Harpur Crewe esq. of East Clayton (1774), and Waiter Fletcher (1795), former Cowes, I.W. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. rectors of this parish: and against the south wall a The soil is various; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are monument to the celebrated Dr. Erasmus Darwin, "phy- wheat, barley and oats. The area is 2,413 acres of land sician, poet, and philosopher," who held the Priory estate and 29 of water; rateable value, £13,086; the population here, and died suddenly at Der'by, 18 April, 1802, besides in 1891 was 571. tablets to his wife, three sons and two daughters: the Parish Clerk, Frederick Thomas Endsor. fittings of the chur~h include an unusual quantity of old Post Office. James Hollingworth, sub-postmaster. Let- oak, 8()me of the bench ends being effectively carved, rers arrive from Derby at 7 a.m. &; 4 p.m. (for callers and one or two bearing shields: the chancel has a only); dispatched at 10 a.m. &:. 6.50 p.m. Postal order. double reading desk, bearing chained copies of Jewell's are issued here, but not paid. The nearest money order works (1609), Burnett's Reformation (1679-81 ), Josephuil &; telegraph office is at Little Eaton, 2 miles distant by L'Estrange (1702), Cave's works and others (1684-94): Nati{)nal School (mixed), erected, with master's resi- the church was extensively repaired in 1830. and again dence, in 1837, at the cost of the late Sir George Crewe restored during the period 1877-86, at a cost of £1,423, bart. f,)r 100 boys i& girl-s &; 20 infants'; average attend.. when a new chancel arch was 'built, a large hagioscope ance, 56 boys &; girls &; 18 infants; the school is en- reopened in the north-west angle of the chancel, a portion d{)wed with £10 yearly by the Rev. John Clayt{)n, of the rood loft stairs exposed, and. several large slabs formerly rector of this pari.sh; Charles Taylor, master of alabaster uncovered beneath the pavement, of the Railway Station, George Winstanley, station master Benthall Winfred B.A.,M.B.TheCedars Thompson Mrs. Breadsall lodge Brassington Brothers, farmers, Alles.. Cox F. Walker, Priory Flatte "'hitaker Rev. In. Ayton M.A.Rectory treeford farm Haslam Edwin Chambers Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper. Baslam Sir Alfred Seale M.A., J.P. COMMERCIAL. The Common The Priory Bailey &; Son, farmers Cook George William, farm bailiff to Mackie Charles Stewart, Lily villa Bailey Samuel, farmer Sir Alfred Seale Haslam J.P.Priory Radclifle Mrs. Breadsall mount Bailey Thomas, farmer, Glebe farm farm Taylor Mra. Aulton villa Bennett Samuel, farmer Cowley Ellen (Miss), shopkeeper DERBYSHJR}<~ [)