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Yates Edwin, farmer , EDNASTON. Fitchet.fi Ch~rles, farmer ifates John, farmer, The Green Knowles Robert J.P. ;Edna!lton lodge F*hett William, f~rmer 'Yates John. farmer, Old Park Mayall George, The Close Frost Thomas, carpenter !f.; ioiner Yates Mary (Mrs.), frmr.The Mount Radford William H. Brook cottage Goodall Thomas, farmer. Birch hous~ Yates Thomas, miller (water), Brails- t Haynes John, farmer ford mill COMMERCIAL. Lawton Thomas, farmer, Home farm :Yates Thomas Radford, farmer, Cor- Archer John Willi~m, farmer, Ednas- Sharpe Albert, farmer ner farm ton Hall farm Shenton Archibald, beer retailer Yates Trevor, gravel mrchnt. & frmr Baimbridge Francis, farmer Thompson Thomas. smith Yeomans Wm. farmer, T~urows Cotterill Selina (Mrs.), farmer (let­ Twigg Thomas, bricklayer ters through Yeldersley,Ashbourn~) Wheeldon. John, head gardener ~o Ooxon Annie (Mrs.), farmer Robert Knowles esq BRAMPTON and WALTON . • BRAMPTON (or Old Brampton) is a township, extensive Orders Confirmation (No. 14) Act, 1892, and came into and important villag~ and parish, including part cf the operation November 9th, 1892, parts of the townships of di~trict of St. Thomas', , adjoining Chester­ Brampton and W alton were added to Chesterfield Munii. field on the west, in the Chesterfield division of the cipal Borough, the added parts being transferred to rlotmty, Scarsdale hundred, union, petty sessional Chesterfield civil parish March 26th, 1894, by Local division and county court district of Chesterfield, and Government Board Order No. 30,633, such portion not in the rural deanery and archdeaconry of Chesterfield, included within the limits of that boropgh are now and diocese of Southwell. In 1875 Brampton parish, under the control of an Urban District Council, estab­ with the township of Walton in Chesterfield parish, lished under the " Local Government Act, 1894" (56 adopted the " Local Government Act, 1894 " (56 and and 57 Vict. c. 73). · 57 Vict. c. 73). The church of SS. Peter and Paul is On November gth, 1910, {)Id Brampton was added to an embattled edifice, consisting of chancel, clerestoried Chesterfield municipal borough and civil parish. nave of three bays, aisles, south porch and a tower Nether Loads and Upper Loads are hamlets in th with octagonal broach spire, containing 5 bells wjth parish, inscriptions, a i;anctus bell in a bell-cot over the i'astern gable of the nave.,. and a new clock, provided W ALTON is a township on the , in th1 in April, 1898, in commemoration of "the Diamond parish of Chesterfield and in the ecclesiastical district ol Jubilee of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria: of the St. Thomas, Brampton ; but since 1892 certain portions church existing here prior to 125 3 there is at least immediately adjoining the river have been included in one relic in the Norman doorway of the south porch, the , and extends about g miles which on the inside becomes Early English, the two south-west of Chesterfield. The Duke of Devonshire styles being intermixed : the south porch, with the tower P.C. who is lord of the manor, Capt. Philip Hunloke, and spire, and some buttresses of the chancel are Deco­ of Wingerworth Hall, and Mrs. Jebb are the principal rated : the exterior walls exhibit various singular stone landowners. The soil and subsoil are clay; the chief figures of Early English date, including effigies under crops are wheat and oats. The area is 2,356 acres of canopies of SS. Peter and Paul: the north aisle retains a land and 4 of water; assessable value. £2.324; the piscina. with a trefoiled head: the chancel has a. flat Per­ population in 1901 was 513. pendicul~r roof, the east window and two others on the • south being of the same period: in the wall at the west is on the river Hipper, and in the· end of the nave is a stone slab with inscription, in Lom­ ecclesiastical parish of St>. Thomas. New Brampton, !z bardic characters, to Matilda le Caus, probably the heiress miles south-west. Here is a Mission church and there of that barony, who died in 1224: through a quatrefoil are also a Congregational chapel, erected in 1862, with opening at its upper end appoor the head and shoulders 16o sittings, and a Primitive Methodist chapel, and .ta of a female in bas-reliaf, and a narrow oblong opening Working Men's Institute. at the bottom discloses the feet and lower part of the Post Office, Old Brampton.-John Henry Collis. sub-post­ drapery: there are monuments of the 17th and 18th master. Letters from Chesterfield at 8.ro a.m.; dis­ centuries to the Clarkes of Somersall, and beneath one patched at 5·45 p.m.; no sunday delivery. The of these a small brass to Nicholas Clarke of Brampton, nearest money order office is at Cutthorpe & tele­ ob. 1589: an eagle lectern of carved oak and a brass font graph office at New Brampton, 3 miles distant ewer were presented in 18gB by the Barnes family: the Post & M. 0. Office, Cutthorpe.-William Black, sub­ church was restored in 1868 at a cost of £700, postmaster. Letters, via Chesterfield, received at 7.10 when the tower · arch was opened, the aisle arches a.m.; dispatched at 5-SO p.m.; no delivery or di&­ 'repaired, and tracery restored to the clerestory windows, patch on sunday. Chesterfield is the nearest tele­ and underwent further restoration in 188g-g1, at a cost of graph office, 4 miles distant £t,85o: there are 330 sittings. In the churchyard, near Post Office, Walton.-Arthur :Hooker, sub-postmaster. the priest's door, lies an Early English sepulchral slab, sculptured with foliage. A memorial window was Letters from Chesterfield at 7 a. m. ; dispatched at 6.40 p.m. ; no sunday delivery. New Brampton, e erected in 1903, by his family, to Mr. Alfred Barnes, miles distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph for many years churchwarden. The register dates from the year 1658. The living is a vicarage, net yearly office Post & M. 0. Office, Holvmoorside.-Mrs. Sarah Hanna'b value £250, with 12 acres of glebe and residence, in • the gift of the Bishop of Southwell, and held since Ollerearnshaw, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive from 1910 by the Rev. Evan Charles Mackenzie M.A. of Keble Chesterfield at 7· 10 a.m. ; dispatched at 5·55 p.m. ; Oollege, Oxford. In lieu of an ancient claim of burial no sunday delivery. The nearest telegraph office is at New Brampton, 3 miles distant flxercised by Chesterfield, 28. was formerly annually paid to the vicar of that parish for the first person Wall Letter Boxes.-White Hart, cleared at 6.20 p.m.; who dies at Brampton aftar New Year's Day. There Ash gate, cleared at 6. 5 p.m. & Brookside, cleared at is a Mission room at Wadshelf, Wesleyan chapels 7.30 a.m. & 5.30 & 9·45 p.m. ; sunday, 9·45 p.m at Bollins and Pratthall, and Primitive Methodist chapels at Cutthorpe and Wadshelf. Shaw's and other BRA~IPTON & W ALTON UR:BAN DISTRiar COUNCIL. charities amount to £I66 Igs. 2d. yearly, and are for Meetings are held at the Council room the 3rd wednes:­ distribution over the whole of the ancient parish of day in each month, at 7 p.m. Brampton, which includes a considerable part of the Members. district of St. Thomas'. Ashgate Lodge is the residence of Edwin Clay Barnes esq. J.P. The Duke of Devon­ Chairman, William Hubert Crookes. shire P.C. who is lord of the manor, Sir G. R. Sitwell Vice-Chairman, Isaac Ernest Ashmore. hart. of Renishaw Hall, Eckington, and Frederick J. All retire in April, 1914. Butcher esq. are the principal landowners. The soil Cutthorpe Ward. is light clay; subsoil, clay. The parish is chiefly William Hubert Crookes I James Lindsay agricultural and stone quarries ; a small portion of George Heywood it is woodland. The area is 7,714 acres of land and 30 of water; assessable value, £9,414; the population Old Brampton & Wadshelf Ward. in 1901 was 2,185. The area of the Brampton and Walton William Henry Bridden I Robert Godley Hill Urban District is ·9,734 acres; assessable value, £7,815; Holvmoorside• Ward. "'he population in 19II was 2,125. The population of Isaac Ernest .A.shmore I Richard Shemwell the ecclesiastical parish in 1901 was 914· William Nicholson Thomas Lowe Watkinson By Local Government Board Order No. P 882, which Walton Ward. was confirmed by Local Government Board Provisional Frederick Clavton• I Samuel Taylllr