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DIRECTORY.] DERBYSHIRE. BRAMPTON. 51 Decorated: the exterior walls exhibit various singular stone Sitwell hart. J.P. of Renishaw Hall, Eckington, Messrs. Wil figures of Early English date, including effigies under cano- cockson Brothers and John Brown esq. are the principal pies of SS. Peter and Paul: the north aisle retains a piscina landowners. The soil is light clay; subsoil, clay. The parish with a trefoiled head: the chancel has a flat Perpendicular is chiefly agricultural ; a small portion of it is woodland. roof, the east window and two others on the south being of The acreage is 7,915; rateable value, £19,549; the popula the same period: in the wall at the west end of the nave is tion in 1881 was 6,385. a stone slab with inscription, in Lombardic characters, to PosT OFFICE.-John Collis, receiver. Letters from Chester- Matilda le Caus, probably the heiress of that barony, who field at; 8.30 a.m.; dispatched at 6 p.m. The nearest died in 1224 : through a quatrefoil opening at its upper end telegraph & money order office is at New Brampton appear the head and shoulders of a female in has-relief, and a narrow oblong opening at the bottom discloses the feet and PosT & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, Cut- lower part of the drapery: there are monuments of the 17th thorpe.-Clemep.t Needham, sub-postmaster. Letters, and 18th centuries to the Clarkes of Somersall, and beneath via Chesterfield, received at 7·30 a.m. ; dispatched at 5·25 one of these a small brass to Nicholas Clarke of Brampton, p.m.; no delivery or dispatch on sunday. Chesterfield is ob. 1589: the church was restored in 1868 at a cost of £700, the nearest telegraph office • when the tower arch was opened, the aisle arches repaired, ScHOOLS :- and tracery restored to the clerestory windows: there are A School Board, consisting of 7 members, was formed 15th 330 sittings. In the churchyard, near the priest's door, March, 1876, for Brampton & Walton; Mr. Wiiliam Tom lies an Early English sepulchral slab, sculptured with foliage. Jones, Chesterfield, clerk; S. Haslam, attendance officer In lieu of an ancient claim of burial exercised by Chesterfield, Board (mixed), Cutthorpe, erected in 1884 at a cost, inclu- 2S. was formerly annually paid to the vicar of that parish sive of site, of about £2,000, for goo children; average for the first person who dies at Brampton after New Year's attendance, so boys, 40 girls & 29 infants; James Lindsay, Day. The register dates from the year 1658. The living is master; Mass .!nnie Shaw, mistress; Miss Amy Hopkin- a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £72, net yearly value son, infants' mistress £288, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Southwell, Board (formerly National School), erected in 1830, for 8o and held since 1879 by the Rev. George Shipton, of Cumbrae children ; average attendance, 63 ; Miss E. A. Tomlinson, College, and rural dean of Dronfield. There is a Wesleyan mistress; Miss Ada Wilkinson, assistant mistress chapel at Hollins. Shaw's, .Allenborough's and oth r chari- Industrial (Chesterfield Union), erected in 1881, for 200 ties for distribution amount to £215 18s. 1d. yearly. The children; number in 1890 was II7; Harry J. Hodgkinson, Duke of Devonshire K.G. who is lord of the manor, Sir G. R. master; Miss Ellen Read, mistress PRIVATE RESIDENTS. 1 Froggatt Benjamin, grocer, Wadshelf Mnrfin Thomas A. farmer, \Vigleys Barnes Alfred M.P., D.L., J.P. Ashgate Froggatt Hezekiah, farmer, Wadshelf Needham Clement, rate collector & post lodge; & 105 Pall mall, London s w Froggatt Jason, farmer, Stonelowe office, Cutthorpe Barnes Arthur Gorell J. P. Ashgate lodge Froggatt John, farmer, Free birch lane N eedhamHerbert, basket m a. Cutthorpe Barnes Miss, Ashgate cottage Froggatt John Turuer,farmr. Wadshelf Nelson Thomas James, gardener to Barnes Mrs. Ashgate house Furness John & Co. quarry owners, Alfred Barnes esq. M. P., J. P. Ashgate Bothamley Charles P Moorhay Newbold Elizh.(Mrs.), farmr.Wadshelf Dixon George, Brampton ball Gilling Thomas, farmer, Cutthorpe hall Newbold George, blacksmith, Wadshelf Hill Charles Hall Elias, farmer, East moor Newbold John Steele, farmr.I<'ree Birch Margereson Francis, Thorpe house Hall John, farmer, 'Vadshelf Newn George, farmer, Rod Knowle Margereson Thomas, Pratt hall Hancock Charles, farmer, Up.Newbold Nichols Chas.joiner& wheelwt.Cutthrpe Moore Miss, Pratt hall Hancock James, !<'ox & Goose P.H Nicholls George, blacksmith, & Peacock Rogers William, Pratt ball Wigley green P.H. Cutthorpe Shipton Rev. Geo. [ Yicar & rural dean] , Hancock Thomas, farmer, Freebirch Nicholls Wm. John, farmer, Cutthorpe coMMERCIAL. HancockThomas,farmer,Cutthorpe grn Pearson Samuel, farmer, Bluster castle Barlow John B. colliery proprietor, Hardwick Dorothy (Mrs.), farmer, Preston Christr.Cutthorpe hotel,& frmr Broomfield colliery Cutthorpe Robinson Edward, wood carver & dealer Bonsall Samuel, farmer, Wadshelf IHeath Joseph, farmer, East moor in antiques, \Voodnook Botham Vi'illiam Drabble, auctioneer & Heath Joseph,sen, farmer,Rod Knowle Robinson Jane(Mrs.),farmer,East moor farmer, Londsley green j Hill Charles, joiner, East moor Shemwell John, farmer, Leadhill Bothom Wm. mason & farmr.Cutthorpe Hill Edward, farmer, Rod Knowle t:lhipley Isaac, George & Dragon P.H Bower Wm. farmer & carrier, Hib hill Hill Joseph, farmer, Rod Knowle Silcock William, farmer, Wadshelf Bowler Charles, farmr. Up.Asbgate frm Hopkinson Samuel, farmer&gamekeepr Simpson George, cowkeeper, Cutthorpe Bradley William, farmer, Wadshelf HudsonMargt.(Mrs. ),farmer,East moor Slack Joseph, cow keeper, Woodnook Bradshaw Edmund, farmer, Frith hall Kay Joseph, farmer, East moor Swann Benjamin, farm bailiff to Bem- Bradshaw Jn.Thos.cowkeepr. Woodnook LittlewoodEiizh.(Miss),frmr.Bagthorpe ard Lucas esq. Birley Bradshaw Joseph, farmer, Birches Lowe George, cowkeeper, Woodnook Toplis William, quarry owner, Ridings Hrampton Reading Room & Library Lowe Jas. shopkpr. & farmer, Wadshelf TurnerFrank,monmntl.msn.Cutthorpe (John Mee, superintendent) Lowe Robert, Gate inn, Overgreen Turner Gervase, cowkeeper, East moor Collis John, shoe maker, Post office Mansfield George, farmer, Wadshelf Turner Mary (Mrs.), beer retlr. & farmr Crookes Ellen (Mrs.), butcher & far- Margereson Francis & Sons, quarry Turner Peter, stone mason, Cutthorpe mer, Cutthorpe owners, Thorpe house Vickers Arthur, farmer, Stonelowe Cutthorpe Reading Room & Library Margereson George,farmer, Pratts hall Walker Charles, farmer, Wadshelf (Mrs. Ann Turner, superintendent) Margereson Peter, farmer, Wadshelf Walker Peter, grocer, Cntthorpe Dixon George, farmer, Hall farm Marples George, blacksmith & farmer Waterhouse Edward, farmer Drabble John Hibbert,farmer,Hollins hl Marsh Benjamin, stone mason & farmer Wilcockson John, farmer, Broomfields l''idler Elizabeth Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Mason Ann (Miss), farmer, Cutthorpe Wilcockson Samuel, farmer, The Yews Priestfield Mattingley Charles, farmer, East moor Wilson James, farmer, Cutthorpe Fisher George, New inn, East moor Mee John, beer retailer, Cutthorpe Wragg Herbt.joiner &farmer,Grove frm Fox Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper Mitchell Jsph. farmer,Caus ho.Ashgate ST. THOMAS', NEW BRAMPTON, is an exten- ·register dates from the year 1831. The living was declared sive ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1832 from that of a rectory r6 Aug. r867, average tithe rent-charge £210, net Brampton and Chesterfield, including HoLYMOORSIDE, WAL- yearly value £250, in the gift of the Bishop of Soutbwel1, TON and part of NEWBOLD. The parish includes an area of 1 and held since r889 by the Rev. Edward Starkie Shuttle about 5 miles by 3 on the borders of Chesterfield, and is on Iworth M.A. of St. Mary Hall, oxrord. There is a Congre,O"& the river Hipper, in the Chesterfield division of the county, tiona.l chapel, erected in 1873 and enlarged in 1877, at a cost Scarsdale hundred, union, petty sessional division and county of £2,700, with sittings for 480 persons. The Wesleyan C<Jurt district of Chesterfield, rural deanery of Chesterfield, chapel was built in 1827, and enlarged in 1848 to seat 130. archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. Hrampton There are two Primitive Methodist chapels, one of which, and Walton are governed by a local board of 12 members, 1 enlarged in 1866, will seat 200, and the other, built in 1871, formed 5 March, 1875. The Chesterfield Tramway Co. run has sittings for 300. There is a Working Men's Institute and cars here from Chesterfield every 20 minutes. The parish is Museum, and several large factories for brown earthenware lighted with gas and supplied with water by the Chesterfield and stone bottles, cotton wick, chip boxes, pot moulds, lint, Water Works and Gas Light Co. The church of St. Thomas, fire-bricks and needles, besides a brewery, ironfoundries and erected in 1831, is a building of stone, consisting of chancel, chemical works. The neighbourhood abounds with coal and nave and a western tower surmounted by four pinnacles and ironstone. The Duke of Devonshire K.G. who is lord of the containing one bell: there are marble tablets to the Rev. manor, Sir G. R. Sitwell hart. J.P. of Renishaw Hall, and Matson Vincent M.A. and the Rev. John Berridge Jebb ~LA. Bernard Lucas esq. are the principal landowners. The soil first and second incumbents of this parish: a new chancel is is clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are whea.t and oats. now (1890) in course of erection, at a cost of ,£1,100: tke The population of the parish in 1861 was 5,259, and in x881 church contains 1,6oo sitt.ings, half of which are free. The was 7 0 251. .