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Turner John, Red Lion P.H. Stonedge 1Wilmot George, farmer, Amber lane Fretwell John, farmer Twigg John, fanner, Robridding Wilmot Josepb, farmer, Slack tGreen Thomas, farmer, Northedge Twigg Samuel, farmer, North Britain Wilmot William, farmer, Brockhurst tHague John, farmer, Northedge Vernon Joseph, farmer, Slack Wilson William, lodging ho. Bath villa Jepson Robert, farmer Waddinj:!ton Booth, Ash over quarries WorkingMen'sClub & Institute(William Jepson Henry Young, farmer Walker Job, farmer, Upper town Buxton, hon. sec) tLowe Thomas, farmer, Press Ward Joseph, farmer, Brockburst Wragg Benjamin, farmer, Spitewinter tMorris Samuel, farmer, Press Watson Richd.Kirk,frmr.GladwinMark tMycroft Matthew, farmer, Press Watts George, shopkeeper, Kelstedge Alton &c. Renshaw Joseph, shopkeeper Wbeeldon John, farmer, Bassett barn [Letters are received through Chesterfield. tSmedleyJspb.stone mercht. Northedge White James, millwright & machinist Names marked t should be addressed Smedley William, stone merchant & general smith Tupton, Chesterfield.] , Snaith Charles, Manor mn, Northedge White Joseph(Mrs.),farmr.Spitewinter Gothard James, Hill Side house Spencer George, farmer, Alton lane White Sarah (Miss), dress maker Alien Benj. Malt Shovel P.H. & farmer Spencer John, farmer White Thomas, assistant overseer & Alien JoAAph, farmer tStone William, farmer, Northedge surveyor of roads Bradley Henry, farmer tTowndrow John, farmer, Ashover hill White William, farmer, Stonedge Bunting Walter, farmer tWalker William, farmer, Northedge Whittaker William, farmer, Butterley Dakin John, farmer Wharton Charles, farmer, .Alton lane Willert Margaret (Mrs.),frmr.Milltown I tEiliott William, farmer, Press Wilson William, blacksmith WilmotGeo.frmr.& blacksmth.Milltown Fisher William, farmer Young Henry, farmer ASTON- UPON-TRENT is a parish and large village, I style and have canopied niches with figures in full relief: 6 milessouth-eastfromDerby, I32fromLondon,xnorthfrom the church was restored in 1848 and 1863 and the chancel Weston station, on the Trent and Melbourne branch and 3 in 1873 by the late E. A. Holden esq. and the organ was en­ south from Borrowash station on the main line of the Mid- larged in March, x88x : there are 320 sittings. 'fhe regis­ land railway, in the Southern division of the county, hundred ter dates from the year 1667. The living is a rectory, net of Morleston and Litchurch, union of Sbardlow, petty yearly value £x,2oo, with residence and 6 acres of glebe,tin sessional division and county court district of , rural the gift of Edward Charles Shuttleworth Holden esq. J.P. deanery of Melbourne, arcbdeaconry of Derby and diocese and held since x869 by the Rev. James Sbuttleworth Holden of South well. The church of All Saints is a building of M. A. of Christ Church, Oxford, and rural dean of Melbourne. local stone, consisting of chancel with north aisle or chapel, There is a Wesleyan chapel here, built in :r82o. The chari­ clerestoried nave of three bays, aisles, north and south ties amount to about £25 yearly. Messrs. Pegg and Co. of porches and an embattled western tower with pinnacles Derby, have large gypsum pits here. At the Dissolution, containing a clock and 5 bells; the first three are dated re- the manor and advowson, being a part of thd Derbyshire spectively 1590, I594 and x66x ; the remainder were added, possessions of St. Werburgh's Abbey, were grante:l to the one in 1847 and the tenor in x873: a curious Saxon cross is Bishop of Chester: a grant of Queen Elizabeth transferred built into the exterior of the west end of the south aisle : the them to Henry Sacheverelle: on the accession of J ames I. lower half of the tower is Late Norman, with the exception they were granted to Charles Paget, on whose attainder, ten of one Transition window of the time of Henry II. : the ~ears later, they passed into the hands of the Roper family, arcades of the nave and those of the chancel aisle, consist- from whom they were purchased in 1649 by the ancestors of ing of two arches, exhibit progressive stages of the Early the present proprietors. Aston Hall, the seat of the Holden English period : of the same style is the font, consisting of family, is a mansion of brick, standing in extensive grounds a massive octagonal basin on a large circular pillar with of 8 acres and overlooking the vale of the Trent. Edward four small detached shafts: the west window in the north Charles Shuttleworth Holden esq. J. P. who is lord of the aisle and those of the south aisle are Early Decorated, one manor, Mrs. Sutton and the Earl of Harrington are the near the east end having curious ogee beaded canopies with principal landowners. The soil is loamy ; subsoil, gravel interesting carved bosses in the jambs: the three south and stone. The chief crops are oats, wheat and barley, bot windows of the chancel are Early Perpendicular: the other there is a good portion of meadow land. The area is 1,763 windows in the north aisle, the clerestory and the upper acres 27 perches; rateable value, £4,756 ; the population stage of the tower, which is embattled and pinnacled, are of in r881 was 568. a later Perpendicular style: there is a piscina, and the out- Parish Clerk, Francis Porter. line of a leper window on the south side of the chancel: in PosT 0EFICE.-Thomas Dolman, postmaster. Letters from the north aisle of the nave is an altar tomb of alabaster, Derby arrive at 5.20 a.m.; dispatched at 8.ro p.m. ; with the recumbent figures of a man and his wife band in sundays dispatched at 6. ro p.m. The nearest money hand, in the costume of the first half of the 15th century; order office is at Shardlow & telegraph office at Weston- and there are numerous mural tablets, chiefly to the Holden on-Trent railway station. Postal orders are issued here, and Shuttleworth families and dating from the 17th century but not paid to the present time: the east window and seven others are National School (mixed), erected in x845, to bold r6a·; stained: the reredos and pulpit, of Devonshire marble, are average attendance, 120; Edwin Wall, master beautiful specimens of modern stonework in the Decorated CARRIER TO DERBY.-Geo. Bull, from his house, tues. & fri Bowles Charles Eyre B Clementson Elizbtb.(Mrs.),manageress Ludlow Francis, White Hart P.H. & Holden Edward Chas.Shuttlewortb ..J.P. to Aston coffea & recreation rooms maltster Holden Rev. James Shuttleworth M.A. Fielding William, blacksmith Marshall Joseph, farmer [rector & rural dean], Rectory Fletcher Robert,marketgardener, Moor Martyn Thomas, wheelwright Ludlow Joseph . side Pegg & Co. plaster merchants (Ralph Osborne William Forman Ralph, farmer & manager for Forman, manager) Pringle Reginald, Aston hall Messrs. Pegg & Co Radford Rd. farmr. Rectory&Hall farms · Soresby Waiter James, The Mount Gregory Catherine (Mrs.), farmer Reed George, grocer & baker Halladay Francis, builder Rice George, shopkeeper COMMERCIAL. Holbrook John, beer retailer RHey Philip, farmer Holte Thomas & Son, butchers Slater Emma (Mrs.), dress maker Astle Charles, wheelwright Holmes James, farmer, Marsh flat Slater Robert, shoe maker Aston Coffee & Recreation Rooms (Mrs. Hurd William, farmer Stenson George Moorley, farmer Elizabeth Clementson, manageress) Husband John, farmer Stevenson John, farmer Bull George, carrier & coal merchant Joynes Alfred, tailor Turner Joseph, farmer Burton Frederick, farmer Leadbetter Joseph, lock keeper Wild Thos.market gardener, Moor side ATLOW is a parish consisting of scattered farm pre-existing church, bearing a monogram and the date houses and cottages, between the roads from Ash borne to I595: in the south wall is a piscina : the easternmost win­ Belper and Ashborne to Wirksworth, 4 miles north-east dow in the north wall of the chancel is continued down­ from AsLborne station on the Churnet Valley section of the wards, and serves as a credence table: there are sittings for North Staffordshire railway, 5 south-west from Wirksworth, 120 person'!. The earliest register is a small quarto book 12 north-west from Derby and 145 from , in the of parchment, containing entries of baptisms and burials Western division of the county, Appletree hundred, Ash- from the year :r685, and of marriages from x698, "truly borne union, petty sessional division and county court extracted from an old and ruinous paper register by W. district, rural deanery of .Ash borne, Derby archdeaconry and Wilson, curate, I762." The living was constituted a rectory South well diocese: the church of SS. Philip and James, by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in x866; average tithe built on a plot of land lying between the old church of .All rent-charge, £89; net yearly value £130, including 15 Saints and the road called Church lane, and consecrated by acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of H. C. Okeover Bishop Selwyn, May, 1874, is a building of stone in the esq. and held since 1885 by the Rev. James Sheldon. From Early English style, and consists of chancel, nave, south the Gisborne Charity, left 7th May, I818, by the Rev. porch and a western turret containing the bell from the Francis Gisborne, sometime rector of Staveley, the poor