Derbyshire. Harti~Gtox
DIRECTORY. J DERBYSHIRE. HARTI~GTOX. 287 HADFIELD, see Glossop. HALLAM FIELDS, see Ilkestou. LITTLE HALLAM, see Ilkeston. WEST HALLAM is a parish with a station on the since 1907 by the Rev. Albert Edward Riland Bedford Dkeston and Derby branch of the Great Northern rail- M.A. of Brasenose College, Oxford. In 169~ Madam Ann war, 3 miles west from Ilkeston, 9 west from Nottingham~ Powtrell left the sum of £so, the yearly interest thereof 7 north-east from Derby and 133 from London, in the to be applied to the apprenticeship of one of the poorest Dkeston division of the county, hundred of Morleston scholars of West Hallam. The united charities for dis and Litchurch, Ilkeston petty sessional division, Shardlow tribution amount to about £3o yearly. West Hallam onion, Belper and llkeston county court, rural deanery of Hall, now (1912) unoccupied, a modern brick mansiont llkeston, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. situated on an e'IIlinence and commanding a very fine The Nutbrook branch of the Erewash canal passes the view of the surrounding neighbourhood, is the property e~ side of the parish. Tht>- church of St. Wilfrid is a of Francis A. Newdigate-Newdegate esq. M.P. of Arbury building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave with clere- Hall, Warw. lord of the manor and landowner. The soil 1tory, aisles, north porch and a massive embattled western is clay; subsoil, strong clay. The cliie'f crops are wheat, tower containing a clock and 6 bells, and a chiming appa- oats and beans and pasture land. The area is 1,356 ratos added in 1897 as a memorial of the Diamond Jubilee acres of land and 6 of water; rateable value, £5,165; of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria: one of the bells is the population in rgn was 777· of medireval date, the others dating from 16r8 to 1876; of Parish CleTk, William Gads by these three were given by the brother, sister and congre- Post, M.
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