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FENNY BENTLEY is a parish and picturesque and stands on a round base with six deep flutings: in Wlage, situated in a pleasant valley, watered by a lllilall 1850 the church was thoroughly restored at the expense brook, to which it gives name and which is here crossed of the late Fraucis Wright esq. of Osma8'ton Manor, and by an ancient stone bridge of two arches, 2 miles north Sir Henry Fitzherbert bart. of Tissington Hall: the spire from .!Bhborne station on the North Staffordshire rail- was erected in 1,866 at the e~ense of Mrs. Barnes and way and 7 south-west from Wirksworth, in the West,'rn Miss Van Tuyl, and in 1873 an organ chambp,r and division of the county, Ashborne union, petty sessional vestry were added, at a cost of £1,717: there are 200 division Md county court district, hundred of Wirks- sittings. The registers date from the year 16°4, hut at worth, rural deanery of Ashborne, a:rohdeaconry of first are very illeg!ible and have been very irregularly and diocese of Southwell. The church of St. kept: there is a blank from 1642 to 1660. The living is Edmund, King and Martyr, a building of stone, consists a rectory, net yearly value £242, with 34 acres of glebe of chancel, nave, north 1risle, south porch and a toJwer and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Southwell, and with spire at the west end containing 3 bells, dated res- held since 1888 by the Rev. Richard Knott Bolton M.A. 01 peetively 18$0, 1654 and 1617: the whole building seems Trinity College, Dublin. There is a. Wesleyan Methodist to have been reconstructed in the early part of the 14th chapel, erected in 1832. The late Rev. J. Bames left the century, of which the east window and one in the neve sum of £6,000 to the Lichfield diocesan trustees, but this are good examples: the chancel is separated from the sum has been considerably reduced by succession duty and nave, and the aisle from the Beresford chapel by ex- change in the fluctuation of stock, and now (1899) amounts quisitely carved oak screens of Late Perpendicular date, to £5,152; two-thirds of the income of the investment is erected circa 1490 and restored in 1850: the principal paid to the (I'!OOj;or of Fenny Bentley for the increase of screen W8S1 a thankoffering given after the Wars of the his stipend, and one-third to the rector of Fenny Bentley Roses: the aisle is separated from the nave by an and other manager or managers of the Bentley school arcade of three bays; the high-pitched roofs of d.uk (belonging to the Rev. Sir Ricl1ard Fitzherbert bart.), to oak, as well as the tower land

FERNILEE is a townshi,p in the parish of , p&sons. The Duke of Devonshire K.G. is lord of the immediately adjacent to the Whaley Bridge station manor. The principal landowners are Col. E. T. D. Cot­ (in Cheshire) on the Buxton and section ton-Jodrell M.P. Henry Sbaw esq. J.P. of Whitehall. of the and North Western railway, 6 Iniles Buxton, Miss Grimshaw and the Hon. :Mrs. Preston. The north-west from Buxton, 3 south-west ±Tom Chapel-en- I soil is sandy loam; subsoil, millstone grit. The land is le-J<'rith, and 165 from London, in! the High Peak divi- chiefly used for gratling purposes, the arable growing oats. sion of the county, hundred of High Peak, union, petty The area is 2,756 acres of land and 8 of water; rateable lessional division and county court district of Chapel-en- vaJue, £5,7°3; the population in 1891 wag 1,233. l~-~rith. Fernilee is on the borders. of Cheshire, ~nd ~s Letters &; Parcels through Stockport via Whaley Bridge, diVIded from that county.by the rIver Goyt, whIch. IS which is the nearest money order &; telegraph office, here cro~sed by a stone brIdge.; the C:omfor~ an~ High arrive about 8 a.m. & 5.30 p.m. Wall Letter Box, Peak TailW~y pass~s through It, formmg a JunctlOn at Horwich end, cleared at 7. 15 p.m. on week days; Wall Whaley Bndge WIth the London and North West~rn Letter Box, Fernilee, cleared at 6.4~ p.m. week days. r~iIway. There .are no wat~r work~, the supply bemg All letters, parcels &; telegrams for South of Nook farm direct from sprmgs; gas IS supplIed by the Whaley by delivery from Buxton once a. day other places as Bridge Gas Company from works near the railway station. above ' The church of Holy Trinity, erected in l884, is an iron Schools. Btrncture, the services here are conducted by the Rev. Stackhouse William WaIter RA. of Charsley's hall, Taxal &; Fernilee National Church of England (mixed), Oxford, who has been curate in charge since 1895. St. for 200 children; average attendance, 150; the build- Joseph's Oa.tholic Chapel, formerly the Endowed School, ing hlllS lately (1894) been enlarged; Alfred Hunting- is served from St. Mary's, New Mills. The Wesleyan ton, master chapel at Fernilee, built in 187l, affords 290 sittings, and Wesleyan (mixed), enlarged in 1888, for 340 children; has a burial ground adjoining. The Wesleyan Methodist average attendance, 250; Joseph Woolley, master; 'Chapel, at Whaley Bridge, erected in 185l, will hold 800 ~fiss Arabella Hargreaves, mistres-s PRIVA.TE RESIDENTS. Cunliffe James William, Overleigh MelIor William, Horwich bank Gibson Alexander, Holly bank, Hor- Preston The Hon. Edward Francis, Darker Thomas, Overleigh bank wich end Errwood hall Barron George, Fernilee hall Grimshaw Miss, Errwood han Ritchie Robert, Overleigh cottage 'OoUon-Jodrell Lt.-Col. Edward Thos. Hall Edward J. P. Horwich bank Rowley Frank, Rock cottage Davenant M.P., J.P. Shallcross Hall Richard, The Carr Shaw Henry D.L., J.P. Whitehall manor; & Carlton club, LondnS W Irvine Mrs. Cold springs WaIter Rev. Stackhouse W., RA. 'Ohapman Robert J.P. Long hill Little George, Park house (curate-in-charge), The Hawthorn!