412 STONEY MIDDLETON. . (KELLY's Whyte's charity of £Io yearly, £3 of which is dis­ occupied by Thomas Shaw esq. is a gabled mansion of tributed to the poor in bread and bacon on St. Valen­ stone, in grounds of about 4 acres, through which a tine's day and Easter Eve, 1os. to the overseers and brook meanders and creates a waterfall, and when the £6 IOS. to the vicar and parish clerk. The village has mines do not discharge too much refuse, trout abound a very picturesque appearance, some of the houses in the brook, which flows into the Derwent. The Duke being situated one above another on the ledges of rock, of Devonshire P.C. who is lord of the manor, and Lord and others at the foot of the overhanging precipices Denman are the principal landowners. The land is on which rise above them. For 1! miles before reaching limestone, and mainly in grass. The hills abound with the village from Tideswell, the road runs alon2 a lead. The area is 1,181 acres; rateable value, £1,773; narrow valley, on each side of which rise steep grassy the population in I9II was 508. slopes, partially covered with brushwood, and above these Parish Clerk, J oseph Mason. are perpendicular rocks overgrown with ivy, in many places upwards of 200 feet in height; near to the village Post & M. 0. ":ffice.-Miss Rhoda Worsencroft, sub­ on this road, and at the foot of a hill, is a fine spring, postmistress. Letters received through Sheffield by discharging a great volume of water, which in a dry mail cart at 7.30 a.m. & 1.25 p.m.; dispatched a~ summer is of great service to the district when other 11.45 a.m. & 5·45 & 7·30 p.m. ; sundays, arrive at 7·55 springs in the locality are dry: in a narrow cleft in the a.m.; dispatched at 5·55 p.m. Eyam, 1 mile distant, rocks called " Middle ton Dale," is a lofty rock known is the nearest telegraph office as the "Lover's Leap." In the village is a warm spring, Police Station, Frederick Hall, sergeant with a temperature of 6o degrees, and possessing all Public Elementary School (mixed), under a management the properties for curing rheumatism, for which Buxton (of So degrees of warmth) is so much frequented: baths of 6 members, erected in 1835, enlarged in 1845 & a were erected by the late Lord Denman on the site of class room add6'd in 1893; it will now hold no chil­ an ancient bath of supposed Roman origin: here are dren; average attendance, 102 ; · Thomas E. Cowen, places for the manufacturing of boots and shoes and master barytes, and in the dale are limekilns. Stoney Middle- Conveyances meet trains at Grindleford station; Samuel ton Hall, the property of Lord Denman, and now Godber, Eyam, proprietor Bradshaw Joseph, Spa cottage Goddard Henry & Sons, lime burners r Jones William, shopkeeper Riddlesden Rev. John Barnett M.A. Goddard Elizabeth (Miss), shopkeeper Marples Thomas & Sons, drapers (incumbent), Parsonage Goddard James, wholesale boot & .Mason Bros. & Lennon, boot & sho~ Shaw Thomas, The Hall shoe manufacturer manufacturers Hallam Vivian Furness & Urban Mason Gar:field, joiner, The Nook COMMERCIAL. Whyte, farmers Mason James Clayton, wheelwright Armit Joseph, farm bailiff to Mr. Hallam Frederick Stockdale, farmer Moseley John, farmer Ellis Dicken, Black Harry Hallam Mary (Mrs. ),Stag's Head P.H Moseley Thomas, shopkeeper Bagley Martha (Mrs.), farmer Hancock George, Moon inn, & butchr Mycock George, Lover's Leap inn Barnes Bernard, blacksmith Hancock John, butcher & farmer Nugent John & Francis, wholesale bool Bland Rubert, assistant overseer & Hancock Wm. farmer, Farnley farm & shoe manufacturers clerk to Parish Council Heginbotham Bros. wholesale boot & Reading Room (R. Bland, hon. S':!C) Carter George, boot maker shoe manufacturers Roe Richard, slater Cocker Fredk. & Alwin, shoe manufrs Heginbotha.m Arth. Wilkson, barytes Sharman Kate {Miss), shopkeeper Crossland Samuel Robert, farmer, manufacturer Sheridan William, Grouse inn Olrenedge farm Heginbotham Francis, farmer Smith Arthur, shopkeeper Ford Herbert Tempest, greengrocer Heginbotham William, farmer Unwin Ellen (Mrs.), shopkeeper Frith Richard, Ball inn Hinch & .)iycock, wholesale boot & Unwin John,_ aparts. Hawthorne eo\ Furness Charles, farmer shoe manufacturers Wall Alice (Miss), shopkeeper Furness Peter, Bradshaw Matthew & J ackson Ed ward, farmer W orsencroft Mary (Mrs.), farmer Gladstone, farmers, High:field Jerram Robert, Royal Oak inn STRETTON, see Clay Cross. STRETTON-EN-LE-FIELD is a parish transferred dated May 8, 1897• which came into operation Sept. 30, from this county to Leicestershire, in pursuance of the 1897·

Counties of Derbv• and Leicester (Woodville &c.) Order• STURSTON, see Ashbourne. SUDBURY is a parish and village on the road from are also numerous monuments to the . Derby to Uttoxeter, with station on the North Stafford­ including one of marble, to John Vernon and his wife •hire railway, about a mile from the village, 13 miles Mary, dated 16oo; the effigy of the knight is in plate 1outh-west from Derby, 5 east from Uttoxeter, 10 north­ armour, with a small ruff round his neck, and lie& east from Burton and 135 from London, in the Western beneath an arch; below, on a projecting altar tomb, division of the county, hundred of Appletree and petty rests the effigy of his wife, who by her prudence and sesswnal division of Sudbury, union and county court care redeemed the family estates, which had become district of Uttoxeter, rural deanery of Longford, arch­ involved: at the east end of the north aisle is a chapel deaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. There wa~ erected by the late Lord Vernon, to which most of the a church here at the Domesday survey. The church of monuments of his family and the Montgomery effigies­ All Saints is a building of stone in the Later Perpen­ have been removed: in 1908 a memorial was erected to dicular style, incorporating some Norman and Early Eng­ the late Rev. Thomas Henry Freer M.A. rector here lish details; it' oonsist9 of chancel, nave of four bays, 1877-1905, and some time archdeacon of Derby: the ~isles, south porch, north chapel, and an embattled church was restored during the period 1873-86, at .a western t