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is at Lea Bridge & telegraph office Cromford; sundays, C. Arkwright esq. Henry Tissington, master; Miss Kate dispatched 7.5 p.m Bastwick, infants' mistress Church of School, erected about r83o, for 300 boys Railway Station, Lewis Wright, station master • & girls '& roo infants; average attendance, 155 boys & CARRIER TO DERBY, Thomas Holmes ~of Mattock Town), girls & 6o infants. The school is partly supported by F. every monday & thursday, returning tuesday & friday U'he residents of Scarthin row & Chapel hill Duckmanton J n. plumber, Scarthin row Pearson Jose ph, shopkeeper, Chapel hill are in Matlock Bath Local Board district. Evans ·william, jeweller, Market place Potter .Anthony, farmer Willersley, & those names marked thus • *F G f M d d p 'tch dE ·1 (-:\''' ) t t" & t are in thepa.rish of :Matlock but all receive ox eorge, arm er, ea ow woo rr ar nu y .d!SS ,s a wner pos - letters through Cromford) 1 *Fox Wm.farmer,,Voodseats, Willersley mistress _.Arkwright Fredc. Cbas. J.P. Willersley Fryer John, draper, tail...,r, hatter, out- Reading Room (Abel Bodeh, sec) .Arkwright James Charles, Oak hill fitter&funeral furnisher,Scarthin row Reeds Jas. & Son, grocers &c, North st Arkwright Rev. William Harry M.A. Gould Geo. Clement, shnpkpr. The Hill Hobinson .Ann (Mrs.), baker [vicar], Oak hill Gregory Elizabeth .Ann (Mrs.), milliner Raper George, whitesmith Furniss Edward, Greenhill terrace & haberdasher Smith Samuel & Son ,general drapers &c *Hill Charles, Bridge house Hall John Thomas, Prudential agent, Smith Hannah(.Miss),grocr.Scarthin rw Holmes John, Rose cottage, Derby road Cromford hill Smith Waiter Edwin,stationer & printr. Sbeldon Rev. Thomas, Chapel hill Hawley William, farmer, The Ashes Scarthin row Sorby Clement J.P. Woodend High Peak Junction 't"harf (William Smith William John, hair dresser Walker Capt. Edwyn J.P. Rock house Walker, sub-manager) Smithurst William, boot & shoe maker, "'\Villn John, Chapel hill HILL MATTHEW, brewer, wine & spirit I Scarthin row merchant, Greyhound commercial & Spencer William, butcher, Mar}iet pl COMMERCIAL. family hotel & posting house Stammers Ernest Callow, brewer to Alien John, fishmonger, Scarthin Hodgkinson Henry, farmer Matthew Hill, Chapel hill .ARKWRIGHT SIR RICHARD &. CO. Hodgkinson John, shopkeeper Statham Maria (Mrs.)~ The Cock P.R, & thread manufacturers (Richard Web- Hollins William & Co. (Xottm. )Limited, butcher ster, manager); & at Matlock Bath merino spinners, Cromford mill *Steeples James, farmer, Low Lees Barker William, sub-agent to F. C. Holmes Horatio, farmer .Stone Joseph, grocer, confectioner & .Arkwright esq Holmes Thomas (Mrs.), lodging house provision merchant, Market place lllDDULPH BROTHERS, millers Kidd Mary&Elizabetb(Misscs),milliners Storer Catherine (Mrs.), ale & porter (water),&; corn dealers & haberdashers merchant, .Scarthin row . .Bird Thomas, beer retailer,Scarthin row Kidd David, grocer & ironmonger Swift Benjamin, farmer .Boden Thomas, boot & shoe maker; & Kidd John, tinman & brazier Swift James (Mrs.), farmer · at Mattock Bath & Matlock Bank Kidd Wm. coal mer. Ctomford wharf Swift John Joseph, baker, confectioner, Britland John, shoe maker King John, spar & marble worker, Scar- & pork butcher J3rown George, news agent & stationer thin row Swift Joshua, tobacconist ..Brown Jas. farmer, High Peak junction, LEA MILLS (John Smedley, prop.), Lea *Taylor Henry, farmer, Castle top Derbv road *Lennox William, linen draper Taylor John, farmer .Brown· Jemima (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Main Tom, saddler, Scartbin Taylor Silvester, shopkeeper, North st Scarthin row Marples Henry, farmer, Dean farm Tissington Ellen (Mrs.), shopkeeper, .Brown John, painter &c. Scarthin row Marples John, farmer, Moorside Market place .Brown William, farmer, Longway bank Mee William1 Bell P.R TowlerThirza(Mrs. )shopkeepr.Scarthin Bunting Thos. wheelwright, Water lane Midland Railway Company's Wharf Toplis James, grocer, Scarthin row .'Bunting Thos. (Mrs.), lodging house (John Bestwick, wharfinger,), Crom· Wheatcroft N. & Son, coalmers. Wharf .Bunting William, blacksmith ford canal wharf Wheatcroft Hy.farmer, Willersley farm ifBurton Joshua, farmer, High lees Mitchell John, tailor, Scarthin row WHEATCROFT HENRY, Via Gellia ChapmanFredk. clothier, Scarthinrol" Nelson Robert, dealer in jewellery color works Clay William M.R.c.v.s.E. vet. surgeon Nicklinson Thos. chemist, Market place Wheatcroft Jas. Walter,barytes manufr Conservative Club (Hy. Tissington, sec) Outram Thomas Smith,currier& leather Wright William John, tailor & outfitter, *Dale George, farmer, Bow wood merchant, .Market place Market place })awes William & ·Son, coal merchants Parker Thos. plumber, glazr. & gas fitter Young William, jun. earthenware dlr CROXALL is a parish on the , at tbe south- grandson of Roger Horton who first held this manor, and western extremity of the county, and partly in , died in 1422 ; several other memorials of this family have with station on the Midland railway, 8~ miles south from been removed to the tower, but there are mural monuments ..Burton-on·Trent, 7 north from Tamwortb, about 7 north- extending from 1659 to 1764: on the chancel tioor is also an east from J.ichfield and II6 from , in the Southern incised alabaster slab with two figures much worn, under division of the county, partly in the hundred of Repton and canopies and an inscription to William Shepherd of Oke­ Gresley and partly in that of North Offiow, Swadlincote ley esq. and Elena his wife (15oo), and under the tower a petty sessional division, Tamworth union and county court small slab with the incised figure of a child in a chrisom, district, rural deanery of Repton, archdeaconry of Derby and and an inscription to John Howes, of Okeley ( 1554): there diocese of Southwell. The church of St. John the Baptist are other memorials to the Rev. Samuel Holworthy, vicar is a building of grey sandstone, consisting of chancel, nave, 1809-39; and to his wife ( 1864), to John Batterage Pearson .south porch and a low western tower containing one bell of LL.B. also a former vicar and his family ( 1808); to Christo­ a tall narrow shape and of some antiquity: there was for- pher Wilmot-Horton, for some years captain and adjutant, merly also a. south aisle, the built-up arcade of which is Coldstream Guards, d.22 July, 1864, and to the Right Hon. -distinctly traceable, and which probably formed a chapel Sir Robert John Wilmot-Horton, sometime governer of Cey­ o()llCe appropriated to the Curzons: the chancel, chiefly lon, d. 31 May, 1841, and .Annie Beatrix his widow, d. 4 Feb. Decorated work of the qth century, has a low side win- 1871. There are 150 sittings, So being free. The register dow 23 by 18 inches on the south side; the tower is also of dates from the year 1588 and is in good condition The tbis period, but in the succeeding century considerable living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £396, gross alterations were made and Perpen:licular windows with yearly value £326 including 5 acres of glebe with residence embattled transoms inserted: this church contains a most in the gift of the Bishop of and held since 1872 by unusual number of incised slabs of exceptional interest; the Right Rev. Thomas Nettleship Staley D.D. formerly <>n the floor of the chancel is a large slab with the incised fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, and late Bishop of figures of a man in plate armour with a pointed helmet, and Honolulu. .A great feature of interest near the church, his lady, as well as some shields of arms, and a marginal rising up from the river Mease which divides the counties inscription to Thomas Curs on esq. and Margaret his wife of Stafford and Derby, is an ancient Saxon tumulus supposed (1485), i11 front of the communion table is a well-carved to have been once fortified. The Old Manor House, formerly slab with the figures of two of his children, John and 'Mary, the residence of the Curzons, and afterwards the property of and invocatory sentences and an inscription; against the the Earls of Dorset, now belongs to Thomas - east wall remains a portion of the tombstone of John Curs0n esq. J.P. who resides here, and is lord of the manor. Mrs. and Anna his wife, dated t5oo-14 : in the north-east angle Anson-Horton, of Catton and Thomas Levett-Prinsep esq.l.P. ()f the chancel is a small incised slab to William, son of John are the principal landowners. The soil is red loam; subsoil, Curzon ( 1487} : on the south side is an incised slab to George marl. The crops are wheat and barley. The area of the Curzon esq. a.nd Katherine his wife (I6os), the figure of the parish, which includes the township of CA.TTOS" and part of former being in plate armour and the latter in a ruff and EDENGALE, is about 3,020 acres ; rateable value, £5,320; brocaded petticoat : over the priest's door is a monument to the acreage of the township of Croxall is 1,22 r in Derbyshire; Henry Curzon ( 1639): on the chancel floor is a large incised the population in 188x was-of the parish, 290: of tbe town­ $lab with effigies under canopies of a man in plate armour, ship of Croxall, 170. OAKLEY is the portion of Croxall town­ bareheaded, and a lady, together with shields and figures of ship in Staffordshire. Howard F. Paget esq. is lord of the six children and au inscription to John Borton and Anna I manor. 'l'he acreage is 735; the population iu 1881 was 37· his wife ( 1520) ; he was son of Rozer Horton, of Catton and Parish Clerk, John German. •