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DIRIOTOIY •J DERBYSHIRE. IBIRLAND. esq. D.L., J.P. and held since x88x by the Rev. Frederick PosT OFFICE.-George Dean, receiver. Letters through Lloyd Ware M.A. of Caius College, Cambridge. There is a Mansfield, arrive at 8.20.a.m... ; dispatched at 5 p.m. The Primitive Methodist chapel here. Boler's charity of 21s. nearest money order &:i thlegraph office is at Mansfield yearly is distributed in money. Joseph Paget esq. D.L., J.P. Woodhouse of Stuffynwood Hall, is the principal landowner. The area National School (mixed), for 140 children; average attend- is 1,441 acres; rateable value, £2,466 ; the population in ance, 90 ; Henry Day, master 1881 was 409. Parish Clerk, William Wrag-g. Railway Station, Harry Woods, station master Paget J oseph D.L., J. P. Stuffynwood hall Farnsworth Mary (Mrs.), farmer Rogers Henry, grocer Ware Rev. Fredk. Lloyd M.A. Vicarage Flint William, butcher Smith Amos, beer retailer Bullivante Mrs Green Edward, The Gate P.H Spafond Maria (Mrs.), shopkeeper COMMERCIAL. Nicholson Joseph, farmer Strutt George, farmer Booth Henry, farmer Nicholson Joseph, jun. farmer Wilson William, farmer Coope William, wheelwright Reddish Herbert, farmer Wright Joseph, farmer Cox: Joseph, farmer & miller (wind) Rogers Harvey, tailor SHIRLAND with HIG HAM is a parish, including yearly for flannel. Major William Glad win Turbutt J. P. of the township of SHIRI,AND and HIGHAM, a very small Ogston Hall, is lord of the manor and principal landowner. portion of STRETTON township, the populous village of The soil is clayey; subsoil, chiefly clay. The chief crops are STONEBROOM and the hamlet of HALLFIELD GATE, in the wheat, oats and some land in pasture. The area is 2,956 Mid division of the county, Scarsdale hundred, Alfreton acres; rateable value, £12,204; the population in 1871 was petty sessional division, Chesterfield union and county court 2,437, and in r88r was 3,415, including Higham. district, rural deanery of Alfreton, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. Shirland IS 2 miles north-by- Higham is a considerable village, three-quarters of a west from Alfreton, 2 south-east from Stretton station on mile north-west of Shirland and I~ south from Stretton the Midland railway and 141 ~ from London by road and 134 station, in the Alfreton county court district. Previous to vH\. Alfreton per rail. The river Amber flows through the 1785 it was a market town, and the ancient cross is still parish. The church of St. Leonard is a building of stone, standing. There is a Free Methodist chapel here. A fair in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, clerestoried for cattle is held on the first Wednesday after New Year's nave of three bays, aisles, south porch, and a fine embattleC. day. The land is owned by Major W. G. Turbutt, C. R. western tower, with eight pinnacles, and containing a clock Palmer-Morewood esq. D.L., J.P. of Alfreton Park, and with chimes, erected at a cost of over £1oo, and 5 bells, others. three of which are dated respectively 16r8, I]IO and 1713: Hall:field Gate is a hamlet half a mile west. the pa.rapets throughout are embattled, and all the windows, Parish Clerk, Samuel Hadfield, H1gham. except the east window, are squ~re headed: in the north PosT & M. 0. 0., s. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, chancel wall is a fine monumental recess, partly of alabaster, Shirland. _ William Poyzer, sub-postmaster. Letters adorned with twenty-one mutilated escutcheons, the whole through .Alfreton arrive at 8 a.m. ; dispatched at 5.50 being within an ogee arch with cinquefoil cuspings, beneath p.m. ; sundays, 10.10 a. m. The nearest telegraph office which there once lay the effigy of a knight in armour; this is at Higham monument certainly belonged to the Greys, and the figure is conjectured to have represented Sir Henry de Grey, sth PosT & T. 0. Higham.-Richard Breffit, sub-postmaster. Baron Grey de Wilton, ob. 1396: on the opposite wall is a Letters arrive from Alfreton at 8.45 a.m.; dispatched at slab of alabaster, on which are carved three kneeling figures, 5·3° Pm. & on sundays at 9·55 a. m. The nearest money supposed by Dr. Pegge to commemorate Reginald Grey, order office is at Shirland. Postal orders are issued here~ justice of Chester, rst Baron Grey de Wilton, ob. 1308, his but not paid wife Maud (Fitzhugh) and their children: under the east POST & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, window of the north aisle is a table-tomb of alabaster, the Stonebroom.-Oharles Smith, sub-postmaster. Letters top of which is incised with two full-length figures and has via Alfreton arrive at 8.30 a. m.; dispatched at 5.15 p.m.; a marginal inscription, in black letters, to John Revell of sundays, ro. ro a.m. TL1e nearest telegraph office is at Shirland, ob. 1537, and Margaret, his wife; below the Doehill railway station figures of the parents are those of three boys and five girls; WALL LETTER Box, at Hallfield Gate, cleared at 5·45 p.m the sides of the tomb are panelled and adorneil with shields l:lchool Board of 5 members was formed in 187r for Shirland of arms; there was a chantry founded by this family at the & Higham; J. H. Unwin, Clay Cross, clerk to the board end of the north aisle : some fragments of old glass rflmain ScHOOLS :- in the clerestory windows, and the presence of incised slabs Board, erected as a National school in 1851, at a cost of built into the belfry walls indicates the existence of an earlier £8oo & enlarged in r884, at a cost of £r,IOo, for 200 church here: the church was restored in 1848, when the boys & girls & so infants; average attendance, 62 boys, interior was renovated, and in 1885 a new organ was erected 68 girls & 6o infants ; Thomas Willan, head master ; by subscription: there are 200 sittings. The register of Geo. Smith, assistant master; Mrs. C. Smith, infants' mist burials dates from the year 1678, and of baptisms and Board, Higham (girls & infants), erected in 1853, for 120 marriages from 1695. The Jiving is a rectory, average children; average attendance, 89; Miss Caroline Street, tithe rent-charge £I4So with 65 acres of glebe, let for £roo, mistress net yearly value £2os, with good residence, in the gift of Board, Stonebroom lane, erected in 187o, for 200 boys, trustees, and held since 1889 by the Rev. Robert Baker ISO girls & 250 infants; average attendance, 110 boys, Stoney M.A. of Trinit,y College, Dublin. At Stonebroom is 100 girls & 120 infants ; Frederick Robinson, head a temporary church, seating 120 persons; the Rev. Edward master; Mrs. E. Robinson, mistress; lt'Iiss R. Smith, Thomas Peberdy B.A. of the University of London, has been infants' mistress curate in charge since 18go. There are Free Methodist and Endowed, Hallfield Gate, erected, with master's house, by Primitive Methodist chapels at Shirland, Baptist and Free Edward Revell esq. & endowed by him & others with lands Methodist chapels at Stonebroom and a Methodist New producing about £'25 yearly: it was enlarged in 1876 by Connexion chapel at Stretton Hill Side. There are charities Major W. G. Turbutt & now holds 8o children; average of £4o yearly value to provide the poor with clothing and attendance, 6o; William Henry Davics, master; :Mrs. A. bread and other purposes and Gisborn's charity of £6 13s. Davies, infants' mistress Shirland. Booth Richard, farmer, Park Mill farm I Lamb James, builder & wheelwright, Baggaley Mrs. Shirland house Bower Edward, White Bear P.H. Stret- Whitebank villas Creswell Mrs. Hallfield house ton Hill side Lamb Robert, farmer& timber merchant Hurt Albert, Amber house Brierley James, shopkeeper Mason Robert, shopkeeper Page Mrs Calow Mary (l\Irs. ),Shoulder of Mutton Moore Cbristopher, shopkeeper Peberdy Rev. Edwd.'l'b.os. B.A. [curate] P.H. Hallfield gate Mycroft George, jun. blacksmith Stoney Rev. Robt. Baker M.A. Rectory Cartlidge Samuel, shopkeeper, Furnace North Isaac, tinman & furniture dealer Cupit Hanuah (Mrs.), Hay hotel Parr Robert, farmer COUMERCIAL. Cupit 'l'homas,farmer,Stretton Hillside Poyzer Wm. boot & shoe ma.Post office Allen Joseph, blacksmith,Stonebroom la De.,ville John, farmer, Delves Radford Daniel, farmer, Park lane Baggaley Henry Charles, farmer & land Hardy Alfred, buGcher & farmer Radford Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper surveyor, Sh1rland house Hardy Sarah (Mrs.), butcher Reader Frederick, baker Barber John, farmer Hill George, shopkeeper Reddish William,frmr.Stoncbroom lane Barratt Joseph, farmer, Delves Holmes Francis Longford, beer retailer RhodesJercmiah,farmcr&colliery mngr Beastall George, Amber hotel, Furnace & road surveyor Rhodes John, Duke of Wellington P.H Bettison William, grocer &c Holmes James, grocer, draper &c Shirland,Hallfield Gate & Higham Gas- Blackwell Colliery Co. ( Jeremiah Holmes Samuel, shopkeeper light & Coke Co. Limited (Richard Rhodes, manager) Hutcbinson Edward, farmer, The Park Breffitt, jun. sec) Booth James, grocer & provision dealer Lamb John, Red Lion P.H Silkstone William, boot & shoemaker .