THE SUBGRBS OF

This District compri.Bes the Parishes, Townships, Division of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the T~ Villages and Hamlets within seven miles radius ma.inder, including Dronfield, being in North ­ from , and those adjacent to Rotherham. shire. The greater part of the district is in the Southern ABBEYDALE is an ecclesiastical district formed, amounts to £2,000, £1,700 having been contributed in January, 1878, out of the parishes of Dure and by Mr. Roberts and £300 by the late Duke of Devon­ N orton, and is in the rural deanery of Dronfield, shire. The living is a. vicarage, net yearly value archdea.conry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. The £160. with residence, in the gift of trustees, and· CnuRCH of St. John the Evangelist, erected by the held since 1904 by the Rev. John Arnold Kerfoot, late John Roberts esq. of Abbeydale Park, a.t a. cost B.A. of the University of London. The St. John's-· of about £5,000, and consecrated by the Bishop Church rooms, a substantial building of stone, in of Lichfield, January 11, 1876, is an edifice in the the Gothic style, were erected by Ebenezer Hall, Early English style, and consists of nave, chancel, Esq., J.P.. of Abbeydale Park, in 1893; the popu-,. organ chamber and vestry. The endowment fund lation in 1901 was 1,058. [For Residents, see ABBEYDH.E, under Sheffield Street Directory.) BEAUCHIEF, noted for the remains of its gatehouse still remain. The CHURCH of St. Thom..­ a.ncient Abbey, and formerly an extra-parochial ~s a small edifice, built in 1660 out of part of th~ liberty, is now a. civil parish, in Bierlow ruins of the Abbey. The benefice i~ a donati.v(\ union, Sheffield county court district, Eckington petty net yearl~value £50, belonging to Col. E. S. Pegge­ sessional division, and Norton polling district of th10 Burnell. The Rev. Ernest Vores Everard, M.A. of . north-eastern (Eckington) division of Derbyshire, but Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, is temporarily is still extra-episcopal a.nd exempt from any eccle- acting chaplain, and also vicar of St. James', Shef­ siastical jurisdiction whatever. It is situated in the field. Col. Edw. S. Pegge-Burnell, J.P. of Wink­ vale of the Sheaf, 4 miles S. by \V. from Sheffield, burn Hall, Notts, is the owner of nearly the whole and has a station on the main line of the 11id:and liberty. The HALL, which stands near the remains-· Railway. Under the " Sheffield Corporatilln Act, of the Abbey, is the property of Col. E. S. Pegge- · 1900," 309 were added to the borough of Burnell, and now occupied by William Wilson, Esq. Sheffield. BEAUCHIEF ABBEY, an offshoot from Wel- J.P. The area compris€s 745 acres of ]a.nd and 3 of . beck Abbey, N otts, was founded for White (or Pre- water; rateable value, £1,212; the population in monstratensia.n) Canons, in 1175, by Robert Fitz- 1901 was 84. Ra.nulph,Lord of ,Norton and Marnham,who PosT via Sheffield. Abbeydale is the nearest Money- dedicated it to the Virgin and Thomas a Becket, and Order and Telegraph Office (under one mile). endowed it with lands in this and other neighbour- RAILWAY STATION (Be.auchief & Abbeydale); Frank hoods. The western tower and part of the nave and J. Mavall, station master Creaser Thomas, farm bailiff to I Harrison Alfred, head gardener to\ Smith Mrs.Alice, frmr. Abbey ·frm Isaac Biggins esq.Cockshutts frm Willia.m Wilson esq. J.P , 1 (For other names see Sheffield Streets.}

BEIGH.TON is a parish and pleasa.nt village built in 1870, and the PRIMITIVE MJ<.'THODIST CHAPJU•. 1 with a station on the Great Central (late M. S. & in 1890. The poor have about £80 a year from L.) Railway, 7 miles E. S. E. of Sheffield. The various benefactions. Earl }llanvers is lord of the­

parish, which comprises the two villages of Beigh- 1 manor and chief owner of the land, and James ton and Hackenthorpe, and the hamlets of Sothall Jermyn Hounsfield, Esq. of Hackenthorpe Hall. and and Birley, is in Chesterfield union and county E. G. Johnson, Esq. are considerable landowners. court district, Eckington petty sessional division. The area is 3,136 a.cres; rateable value, £20,338;: Beighton polling distnct of the north-eastern (Ecking- the population in 1901 was 3,371. ton) division of Derbyshire, and in the rural deanery 1 SEXTON, John William Banks. of Staveley, a.rchdeaconry of Derby and diocese of PosT, ~I. 0. and T. OFFICE at Herbert Lowe•tr. Southwell. The parish is lighted with gas. The Letters via Sheffield are received at 7 a.m. & 2.30' CnuRCH of St. Mary th€ Virgin was reston~d in p. m. & are dispatched at 10.35 a.m. & 4.35 & 8.30 1868. The register dates from 1653. The living is p.m. & on Sundays arrive at 7 a.m. & are dispatched a vicarage, net yearly value £213, with residence. at 3.20 p.m WALL LETTER BoxEs, at Sot-hall, in the gift of the Bishop of Southwell, and held cleared at 9.35 a.m. & 7.15 p.m. & High ::otr~t, since 1889 by the Rev. Robert Stewart Hare M.A. cleared at 10.45 a.m. & 4.40 & 8.45 p.m. of Trinity College, Dublin. A new vicarage house Elementary School (Council), with master's resi­ was built in 1900 at a cost of £1,700. The Sun- dence, enlarged for 500 scholars, and again enlarged day school and parish church room were erected in 1896, for 836 children; Willia.m Falstead, master_ in 1892, at a total cost, including site, of Elementary School, with master's hou~, Hacken- £1,600, defrayed by Earl ~Ianvers. The WESLEYAN thorpe. , CHAPEL, Sothall, rrhuilt in. 1880 at a oost of RAn.WAY STATION, Beighton; George Booth, station £1,200, was added to the Sunday school in 1906, master and a new chapel erected in the same year at a cost CARRIER, Beighton to Sheffield.-Charles ABpina.ll .. of £2,300. The UNITED METHODIST CHAPEL wa.s tuesdays & sa.turda.ys BEIGHTON. . Aspinall Seth, cowkeeper Barker James, insurance agent~ Adrian Hugh, Rother vi€w, Banks Charles, grocer School road Queen's road Banks 11rs. Elizabeth, saddler Barnes Mrs. Betsy, Queen's road Aldridge Arthur, draper, High st [Banks George, vict. Royal Oak Bates \Villiam, ~ycamore villa~p- Aspinall Charles, carrier j Banks John William, sexton Queen's road