DIRECTORY.] DERBYSHIRE. SWADLINCOTE. 311
Southwell. Sutton-on-the-Hill is 3 mil~s south-east from Long Lane includes Osleston, one mile north-east, anStaffordshire rail- CHRIST CHURCH, an ecclesiastical parish, was formed from way, 8 west-by-south from Derby, and 7north from Burton. parts of Brailsford, Sutton-on-the-Hill and Trusley in 1859· A small brook flows through the parish. The church of St. The church is a plain structure of brick, situated in Long Miehael, a building of stone in the Decorated style, is situate lane, and consists of chancel, nave, south porch and a belrry ~:m a lofty hill, about half a mile from the village, and con- containing 3 bells : there are two stained windows, the gift sists of chancel, nave of four bays, north aisle, south porch of R. w. Chandos-Pole esq. and a memorial window to and a western tower with spire, struck by lightning in 184r, Frances Brewin, erected by her father: the church affords and taken down, but rebuilt in 1863: the tower contains 6 162 sittings. The register dates from the year 186o. The bells, dating from 1602, and some stained glass: there are living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £ 2 8, gross 170 sittings. The register dates from the year 1575. The yearly value £62, with residence, in the gift of the vicar of living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £200, with residence, Sutton-on-the-Hill, and held since 18go by the Rev. Herbert in the gift of, and held since r885 by the Rev. Rowland Arthur Hodges M.A. or Oxford University. The population German Buckston M.A. of Brasenose College, Oxford. The in 188x was ; rateable value £ ,045. vicarage is a very fine old castellated mansion, mantled with 332 3 ivy. The trustees of Chetham's Hospital are lords of the Parish Clerk, Dan F. Bevis. manor and principal landowners. The soil is chiefly marl. PosT 0FFICE.-Dan F. Bevis, postmaster, Letters arrive The crops are wheat, barley, clover and turnips. The area from Derby at 8 a. m.; dispatched at 5.50 p.m. The of the parish is 3•246 acres; rateable value, £r,7]6; the nearest money order & telegraph office is at Etwall population in 1881 was 695. Parish School, Sutton-on-the-Hill, built in 1871,for 6o child- AsH is a small hamlet and village, 1 mile south from ren ; average attendance, 45 ; Dan Bevis, master Sutton. The sole owner of Ash is the Rev. R. G. Buckston Christ Church National (mixed), Long lane, erected in 1866 M.A. It contained in 1881 a population of 75 ; the area is for so children; average attendance, 37; A. Johns, 6gx acres of strong land; rateable value, £1,370. master Sutton-on-the-Hill. Sutton Cheese Faetory (Henry Bridges, Shaw Daniel, farmer, Cropper farm Buckston Rev. Rowland German M.A. manager) Stretton Brothers, farmers Vicarage Wainwright Thomas, farmer Thompson Henry,farmer, Trusley wood Hoare -,Ash Walwyn Peter, wheelwright Tunnicliff James, farmer COliiMERCIAL. Wooddisse Ralph, farmer, Ash Walker William, farmer Brassington John, farmer BridgesHy.manager,SuttonCheesefctry Osleston (or Long Lane). Thurvaston (or Long Lane). Bull Samuel, butcher Archer Sarah (Mrs.), farmer Brassington Arthur, farmer Fleming Edward, Chetham's Arms P.H Hodges Rev.Herbert Arthur M. A. Christ Draycott Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Fowke William, farmer, Ash Church v:icarage, Long lane Gibbs William, farmer Hall John & Son, millers (water) Bestwick Thomas, shopkeeper Jeffrey Thomas, farmer Hibbs William, farmer Burnett Arthur, farmer, Nunsfield Kent John, farmer Lomas John, blacksmith Finch John, wheelwright & shopkeeper Lee Richard, Three Horseshoes P.H. & Newham Frank, farmer Hardy Emma (Mrs.), farmer farmer Orme Reginald, farmer, Ash Hunt Thomas, farmer Smith James, farmer Rose Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer, Ash Kent George, farmer Sessions William, dairyman Somerfield James, farmer Knifton Joseph, farmer, Grangefield Ward James, farmer .SWADLINCOTE is the head of a petty sessional divi- Ferrers Earl, Staunton Harold, Ashby-de-la-Zouch sion, and a township and parish, formed in 1848, from Loudoun Earl of, Willesley hall, Ashby-de-la-Zouch .Church Gresley, 6 miles south-east from Burton-upon-Trent, Barber John Lewis Pasteur esq. Stanton house, Burton-on- 130 from London, 4 north-west from Ashby-de-Ia-Zouch Trent .and 13 from Derby, having a station on the Burton and Levett-Prinsep Thomas esq. Croxall hall, near Lichfield Ashby branch of the Midland railway, in the Southern divi- Milligan Lt.-Col. Charles, Cauldwell hall, Burton-on-Trent .sion of the county, hundred of Repton and Gresley, union Mowbray Major George Thomas, Grangewood house, Over- and county court district of Burton-upon-Trent, rural seal, Ashby-de-la-Zouch deanery of Repton, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Nadin Henry Guy esq. Stapenhill, Burton-on-Trent Southwell. A Local Board of Health of nine members was Smith Hy.Etherington esq.Norris Hill ho.Ashby-de-la-Zouch formed in 1871. The parish is lighted with gas by a com- Wardle Henry esq. M.P. Highfield, Burton-on-Trent pany formed in 1859, and supplied with water from works . Clerks to the Magistrates, Smith, Mammatt & Hale, Ashby- at Woodville, the property of the Burton Rural Sanitary de-la-Zouch Authority. Emmanuel church, built in 1848, is a modern Petty Sessions are held at the Town hall, Swadlincotc, every edifice of stone, in the Early English style, consisting of 3rd tuesday in the month at II a. m. The petty sessional .apsidal chancel, nave, transepts and a western turret con division comprises :-Appleby, Boundary, Chilcote, Meas -taining one bell: in r883 an organ and choir seats were ham, Oakthorpe & Donisthorpe, Stapenhill, Smisby, added, at a cost of £230, raised by subscription: there are Stretton-en-le-Field, Walton & Willesley, Swadlincote, 410 sittings. The register dates from the year 1848. The Hartshorne, Church Gresley, Castle Gresley, Linton, living is a vicarage, net yearly value £122, including 35 Lullin~ton, Coton-in-the-Elms, Rosliston, Drakelow, Cat- .acres of glebe with residence, in the gift of the vicar of ton, Croxall, Stanton & Newhall & Cauldwell · Church Gresley, and held since 1889 by the Rev. Edward Maxlow B.A. of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge. There LOCAL BOARD . .are Wesleyan, Baptist and Free Methodist chapels here and a Primitive :\iethodist chapel at Woodville, built in 1889. Board Room, Town Hall. The Town Hall, erected in 186r, and standing in a good posi Board day, 1st monday of month. tion, is a commodious structure of brick and will hold 6oo Wragg John Downing, chairman. persons. A large market is held every Saturday night, principally for provisions. Dorothy Taylor left £10, the Aldridge Thomas Mason William interest ( ws. ), to be distributed to the poor in bread: Brunt's Godfrey John Eley Arthur Trust, proclucin!;; £6 6s. 8d. yearly, is given to the National Rowlcy James William Stacey Thomas School fund. Sir Robert Gresley bart. of Drakelow, is lord Haywood James Henry Stalcy Robert of the manor. The Granville Colliery Company are the Clerk, William Alfred Musson, Ashby-de-la-Zouch principal landowners. Swadlincote is noted for the manu Treasurer, James Lawford, Leicester facture of sanitary earthenware, fire bricks, fire clay goods, Medical Officer of Health, John Hamilton, Swadlincote also ironstone, cane and Rockingham ware. The area is 550 Surveyor & Inspector of Nuisances & Collector, Robert acres; rateable value, £9,863; the population in x881 was Cartwright 2,214 in the township, and 2,982 in the parish. A School Board of 5 members was formed in 1879; Thomas At NEWHALL FIELD and GRANVILLE are collieries. Buckley, Church Gresley, clerk to the board; R. J. Sexton, George Spencer. Franklin, West street, Swadlincote, attendance officer PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Insurance & Annuity & Stamp SCHOOLS:- Office.-}Irs. Edith Whitehall, postmistress. Letters from Board, erected in 1882 for 123 boys, 123 girls & x6o infants; & Burton-upon-Trent arrive at 5 a.m. 4 p.m.; dispatched average attendance, 102 boys, 105 girls & 1I5 infants; at 9·5 a.m. & 7.50 p.m George Francis Johnson, master; Mrs. Isabella Johnson, CoUNTY 1\IAGISTRA.TES usually attending Swadlincote Petty mistress ; Miss Emma Eliza Lloyd, infants' mistress Sessional Division :- National (mixed), for 210 children; average attendance, Cave-Browne-Cave Sir My lies bart. D.L. Stretton hall, Ashby 170; John Joseph Wright, master de-la-Zouch, chairman Railway Station, Samuel Morley, station master
