614 HIGH PEAK HUNDRED. in 1725, Was Discovered in 1781, Quite Perfect and Petrified, Retaining the Flesh-Colour As When Entombed
614 HIGH PEAK HUNDRED. in 1725, was discovered in 1781, quite perfect and petrified, retaining the flesh-colour as when entombed. The Vicarage is a neat house west of the church. The Wesleyan Methodists have a chapel erected in 1807, at a cost of £300, with sittings for 260 persons; about one half are free. The Endowed school is now taught on the National plan; Wm. Cresswell, master. The Girls’ National school is an old thatched building near the church; Mrs. E. Blackshaw, mistress. The Roman Catholics have a chapel in a rural situation, and there are ruins of ancient Catholic chapels at Over Padley and North Lees. A Fair is held on the first Friday after Old Michaelmas day, and if it falls on Friday, the Friday after; and the Feast on the Sunday before the fair. The Hall, a handsome mansion in the village, was rebuilt in 1844; it is the property and seat of John Spencer Ashton Shuttleworth, Esq. Camp Green, a little E. of the Church, is supposed to be the site of a Danish camp. This manor, Hereseige, was, at Domesday survey, the property of Ralph Fitzhubert. In the reign of Henry III. it belonged to the family of De Hathersage, whose coheiresses brought it to Goushill and Longford. In the reign of Henry VI. Goushill’s moiety belonged to the family of of Thorp, with remainder to Robert Eyre and his heirs. Sir Nicholas Longford died seized of the other moiety in 1481. The ancestors of the Duke of Devonshire purchased it of the family of Pegge, in 1705.
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