190 DBONFIILD. . [KELLY'S Bradbury John, farmer & insurance Oliver Thomas, Yellow Lion P.R.Apper-' . agent, hall knowle Brittland William, shoe maker Orton John, farmer Bruce Matthew Cooper Samuel, shopkeeper Phillips Henry, shopkeeper & beer re- Harrison Freclerick Geo. Crabtree house Creswick Thomas, farmer, Unstone hill tailer, Apperknowle Hopwood George , Bentley hill Dethick George, farmer, Apperknowle Phillips Samuel, farmer, Apperknowle Marshall Frederick Earnsbaw Wm.shopkeeper,XewUnstone Phillips Thomas, boot & shoe maker Oxley Sidney, The Elms :FoxWm.grcr. & prov. dlr. Apperknowle Rangeley Wilham Henry, land agent Freeman Wm. accountant & coll.of rates Redhead Rt. Hickson, Fleur-de-lis P.:a COMMERCIAL. & taxes & school attendance officer Reed Francis Thomas, butcher & beer Ashton J oseph, joiner Gill Wm. wheelwrght. builder&saw mill retailer, Apperknowle Beard Waiter, farmer, May farm Hardwick Geo. shopkeepr.Apperknowle Riley James, & Chesterfield Fisher Mary (Mrs.), farmer Hardwick Elizabeth (Mrs.), beer re- carrier, Unstone hill Gill William, farmer tailer, Summerley Robinson John, shopkeeper, Post office Hartley Hy. tailor & assistant overseer Hardwick Jas. beer retlr. Apperknowle Robinson Thomas, station master Hartley Sarah (Miss), dress maker Hardwick 'Villiam, farmer, Sum merley Sheppard George, butcher, Crow lane Ha venhand Eli7-abeth (Mrs.), shopkeepr Harrison John & Sons, edl'!e tools, Sheppard William, beer retlr. Crow la Havenhand John, heavy edge tool mnfr scythe, sickle &c. mfrs. Vnstone mills Smedley Edward, boot & shoe maker, Helliwell Geo. shopkeeper & news agent Hawley Hannah (Mrs.), grocer, Ap- New Unstone Hebblethwaite Frank, farmer, Sickle~ perknowle Stafford James, farmer, Unstone hill brook farm Hawley Harvey, farmer, Hundow Summerfield Thomas E. insurance agt Longden William, farmer Hewitt George, manager to Unstone Swift Gharles, farmer, Apperknowle Mason George, shopkeeper Coal & Coke Co. Limited Swift John, Horse & Jockey P.H Mather John, farmer Hewitt John L. & Co. farmers & coal & Unstone Coal & Coke Co. Limited, Morton Wm. Howe,farmer,Pf)veyfarm coke burners, Bull close colliery owners & coke burners (Geo. Oldfield William, beer retailer Hewitt Wm. farmer, Bull Close farm Hewitt, manager; Henry Singleton, Pashley George, file cutter Hibbert Alien, beer retailer, Hundow assistant sec) PearsJn.frmr.Woodcockfrm.&overseer Holmes Alfred, blacksmith Vickers Albert, farmer, Smnmerley hall Powell Thos. shopkeeper, beer retailer Johnson Joseph Robert, clerk to the Walker Jabez Hollingworth, grocer, & farmer Unstone school board draper & beer retailer Priestley Sam, farmer, Bentley hall Johnson Sampson, butcher & farmer 1Valker Thomas Peter, grocer & pro- Renshaw Annie (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Kitchen Thomas, co11iery underviewer, v-ision dealer, & agent to W. & A. Post office Apperknowle Gilbey, wine & spirit merchants Shaw John, farmer, Birches farm Knowles Jn.Thos.corn miller,Unstn.grn Ward Ann (:Mrs.), farmet, Summerley Shaw Thomas, blacksmith La" ton Joshua, grocer & draper Ward John, farmer, Apperknowle Smith William L. Chequers P.H Longden Joseph, farmer, Summerley WardThos. Wm.frmr. Unstone Hill farm Street Catherine (:Mrs.), shopkeeper Massey John, farmer, Unstone green vVebster William, shopkeeper & beer Taylor Edward, Cross Daggers P.H MasseyThomas,shopkeeper, Unstone grn retailer, Unstone green Taylor William, beer retailer Mather Thomas, farmer, Hundow \Vheatley William, fjlrmer Unwin Edward, farmer Merickes John, newsagent Widdison William, farmer, Moor Top lValentine Wm. farmer, West Bank frm Oliver Susannah (Mrs.), dress maker, farm, Apperknowle Windle John, farmer Apperknowle 1 Widdowson William, carpenter

DUFFIELD, delightfully situated in a _valley, on the value £164, including 12 acres of glebe, with a vicarage banks of the river Derwent and Ecclesbourne brook, is a house, in the gift of Rowland Smith esq. and held since 1858 township, extensive parish and station on the North Mid- by the Rev. Francis Wellington Moore, of St. Bees, surra­ land railway, s! miles north from Derby by the railway and gate. Earl Beauchamp is lay rector, and receives the great 5 by road, 2~ south from Belper and 132 from London, in tithes commuted at £66o. There are Baptist, Wesleyan the Mid division of the county, Appletree hundred, Belper Methodist and Free Methodist chapels: £270 was left by union, Belper and Ilkeston county court district, petty ses- Richard Holden in 1832 to the trustees of the Wesleyan sional division of Belper, rural deanery of Duffield, arch- chapel; £9 is distributed in bread to the poor on the first deaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. The township .Monday in the year, and the remainder is applied to repair­ is lighted with gas by a company formed in r866. The ing the chapeL A cemetery, of 3~ acres, was opened March church of All Saints is a building of stone in mixed styles, the 9th, r88o, at a cost of £7,500: it has two mortuary from Early English to Perpendicular, consisting of chancel chapels and superintendent's house, and is under the control with a north aisle, clerestoried nave of three bays, aisles, of a burial board of 9 members. Edward Potterell, in north transept, vestry, south porch and an embattled 1667, built two almshouses for four poor people, who receive western tower with lofty spire, containing a clock and :ro rs. per week, besides flannel and coals at Christmas. The bells, 8 of which were hung in 1885 and 2 others in 1887: late Sir Richard Paul Jodrell hart. left, in r86r, £100 Three no traces now exist of the ancient Saxon church of St. Alk- per Cents. to be distributed in clothing among those who mund, but the corbel table of the north chapel affords have had the largest families and have been least burden· sufficient evidences of the former existence of a Norman some to the parish. The Rev. Francis Gisborne, formerly edifice, and some sepulchral slabs of that date, with incised rector of Staveley, left iu :r817 £'7 ss. yearly, to be laid out crosses, have been built in abo\·e the windows of the belfry: by the vicar in coats and flannel for the poor. Webster the arcade on the south side of the nave is Late Decorated ; charity or Peak money, left in r699 and 1703, is a fund the north arcade has semicircular arches with classic capi- derived from two-thirds of the interest of £5,089 r8s. gd. tals: all the piers lean towards the east or river front, a now standing in £2! Consolidated Stock, producing £93 circumstance attributed to the washing of the allmTial sub- 7s. 4d. distributed half-yearly to 100 poor persons not in soil intp the graves during floods: in r62o the church was receipt of parish relief in the district of Duffield, 1\lilford, new-roofed and the names of the churchwardens carved on Belper, Holbrooke, Hazelwood and Heage: the manag-ement the western truss: in the chancel aisle is an altar tomb of of the funded property is, by an order of the Court of Chan­ alabaster, with recumbent effigies, to Sir Roger .i\Iynors and cery, in the hands of 19 co-optativetrustees. The Old Alms· his lady (1536), the former in a complete suit of plate house Fund Charity, produced by the sale of some old alms­ armour, girt with a sword, his gauntlets lying by his side, houses, consists of £333 3s. 4d. invested in£ 2! per cent. Con· his bare hands placed together in the attitude of prayer, sols; the dividends are distributed half-yearly among four and round his neck a collar of SS; the lady wears an poor persons. About a mile from the village is Farnah Hall, an angular-shaped head dress, a broad collar, gown and mantle; elegant mansion belonging to Lord Scars dale, now occupied only the latter part of the inscription is now visible: in the by Claudc Heaton Montford esq. Duffield Hall is the seat transept is a large and quaint monument with effigies, dated of Rowland Smith esq. J.P., D.L. Dutlield Park is the resi­ r6o3 and erected by himself, to Anthony Bradshaw, of the I deuce of the Hon. Frederick Standisll O'Grady; the park Inner Temple, great-uncle of the regicide, John Brads haw consists of 30 acres; the river Ecclesbourne passes through (whose family possessed considerable property in this parish), the grounds and includes a trout hatchery. The Lilies, his two wives and 20 children ; the 3 children by the second lVindley, is the residence of John Gilbert Crompton esq. wife, however, do not appear on the monument: the font D.L., J.P. ; the house is situated on a rising ground in the is octagonal and dates from about 1662 : the edifice under· centre of a park, and commands extensive views of the went extensive restoration in 1847, and has 578 sittings, neighbouring country. There are several other goood. houses 218 being free. The situation of the churchyard on the in the township. Duffield Castle has been ascertained, banks of the Derwent is extremely picturesque, and a fine through excavations carrried on by .Mr. W. Bland, late head yew tree of great age stands to the north-east of the church. master of the endowed school here, in the early part of r886, The registers date from the year 1598, and are in very fair to have existed on what is known as Castle Hill ; the founda­ condition, some portions, however, being imperfect. The tions, as now laid bare, through the aid of the Derbyshire living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £53, yearly Archreological Society, exhibit the basement of a rectangu-