DIRECTORY.} DEHBYtiHIRE. SOUTH DAR .... EY. 13~ Davenport Th()mas Bentley, Plough Maddocks John, farmer, Northwood I Dale. T A "Scholastic, Two Dales;'' inn, Two Dales Martin Henry, Square & Compasses T N :ro Darley Dale Dawsou. Charles Edward, architect & P.H. Darley Bridge 1 'rwyford Thos. stone masn. Two Dales surveyor, Fircliffe house Matlock Bank Industrial & Provident Wagstaff Samuel, farmer, Two Dales Derbyshire Henry & Sons, nursery- Society Limited, Two Dales Wagstaff William, butcher, TwoDales men, Hillside nurseries Morten Ernest Bremner, grocer Wain Matthew, farmer, Two Dales Derbyshire Stone & Marble Co. stone Moxon Herbert Wm. B.A., M.R.C.S. Wall Joseph, butcher;- Main Dale rd. merchants Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. physician & & farmer, Tinkersley Derbyshire George, joiner, Hillside surgeon, & medical officer of Wall Waiter (Mrs.), aparts.Riversdale Eaton .J. & Co. fibre cloth manu- health to North Darley Urban Dis- WaltQn James, miller (water),Warney facturers, Two Dales mills. T A trict Council, The Hazels,Two Dales mill & grocer, Two Dales "Mill, Two Dales" Norman George W. grocer, Two Dales Waterfall Frederick William,butcher, Eckershall Thomas, steward to J()hn Redfern Geo. blacksmith, Two0 Dales Two Dales Barlow esq. Abbey farm Redfern John, farm bailiff to B. L. Waterfall Osmond, farmr.Sydnope hll ream Henry, jun. farmer, Tax farm Barrow esq. J.P. Sydnope Home Watts James Arthur, blacksmith & Feam Jn. Herbt. draper,Main Dale rd farm, Two Dales I shopkee-per, Two Dales Fearn Thomas, farmer, Tynkersley Redfern Samuel, farmer, Woodside fm 1 tWheatcroft Eliza (Mrs.),apartments, Fielding Christopher, farmr. Hackney St. Elphin's Ohurch of England Darley villa, Hackney Fielding Henry, boot maker School for Daughters of the Clergy White Stephen, farmer, Fallinge Fielding M. E. (Mrs.), apartments & & Laity (Miss Margaret L. Flood Whitworth Hospital (W. Thorburn boarding house, Ash Tree farm, 1 M.A. head mistress), Darley Dale. F.R.C.S., R. H. Luce M.A., M.B., Hackney 1 T N 53 Matlock B.C., F.R.C.S. hon. consulting sur- Fielding Waiter, coal dlr. Two Dales Sharpe William Cecil M.D., C. M. geons; W. C. Sharpe M.D., C.M. ·

Freeman Edward, market gardener, 1 Edin. Red house Herbert W. Moxon B.A., M.R.C.S., Hackney Lane Siddall Ada (Miss), shpkpr.Up. Hckny L.R.C.P. & E. Crarer M.B., C.M. Freeman Thomas, gardener to A.Clay Siddall Hannah (Mrs.), grocer, & hon. medical O'fficers; C. E. Daw- esq. J.P post office ~on, seC» ; Miss Alice Pringle, Gentle Charles, farm bailiff & gar- Smith Gervase & Sons, market gar- matron), Darley Dale dener to A. .S. Marsden-.Smedley deners, Upper Hackney Whitwortb Institute,PleasureGrounds, esq. Darley Dale Smith James & Sons (Darley Dale) Baths. Billiard & Reading Rooms, Gill John (Mrs.), apartments, Butts la Limited, nurserymen, Darley Dale Library &c. (Rev. Evan Evans B. A., Gould George, Grouse P.H nursery. TA "Smithiana, Two A.T.S. sec) Gregory Anthony, carpntr. Two Dales Dales;" T N 7 Darley Dale. See Wildgoose Chas. farmer, Burley fields Gregory George, farmer advertisement Williams Deacon's Bank Ltd. (sub- Gregory Hugh, market gardener (fruit Smith Annie (Mrs.), shopkeeper, branch) (Lionel Healey, manager), & vegetables). Hill side, Darley Dale C'hurchtown open daily, n a.m. to 2 p.m. ; Gregory John, timber merchant Smith Joseph A. deputy registrar .of sat. II to I2 a.m. ; draw on head Gregory Thomas, market gardener, births, deaths & marriages, Upper office, 20 Birchin lane, London E C Darley Dale farm Hackney Wilmot Jn. nurseryman, Sydnope hl Gregory William, farmer, Hackney Smith Matthew W. nurseryman, The Wilson Richd. farmr. B~mper castle Lane Forest nurseries, Darley Dale. TA Wood Rose (Mrs. ),shopkpr. Two Dales Holmes Thomas, Nag's Head P. H. "Smith, Hazels, Two Dales." See Wood William Preston, Labnrnum Two Dales advertisement inn, Over Hackney Holmes William, Holly Tree inn, Smith Thomas, coal merchant; soh• Woolliscroft James Henry, green- Over Hackney local agent for the Pentrich & Rid- grocer, Main Dale road Hopkinson Henry, grocer dings collieries, Darley Dale sta- Wragg Herbert, farmer, Farley Kenworthy Elizh. (Mrs. ),frmr.Hckny tion ; res. Stancliffe view Wragg Mary · (Mrs.), Blacksmiths' Kirkham John W. farmer,Up.Hackny Smith Thomas, farmer, Over Hackney Arms P.H. Two Dales Knifton Thomas, shopkpr. Two Dales Stanciiffe Estates Co. Limited (The). Wrag-g- William, farmer, Parley Lowe Ernest Francis, inspector of stone mers. Stancliffe, Darley Dale Wright & Co. explosives agents, nuisances & surveyor for the Urban Stancliffe Hall, preparatory 11chool for Strathallan District Council, Two Dales Public Schools & Navy (D. Bar- Wright Tom, coal & coke merchant, Lynam Edwd. nurseryman, Stancliffe court Clarke M.A. & S. Vincent Darley Dale ; & at Matlock & • I Conway M. A. principals), Darley. Hassop. T N 41 Matlock SOUTH DARLEY (or Wensley) is an Urban Dis· parish participates with North Darley in Garratt's and trict, comprising the area of Wensley and Snitterton Gisborne's charities. Ann Phynney's charity now con­ township, and including in addition the hamlets of sists of four cottages in Wensley Dale for poor widows. Oakerside, Darley Bridge and Cross Green. The church In the parish is a lead mine. Mrs. Killick and the is about I mile north from Darley Dale station, on trustees of Wass and Son are the principal landowners. the Matlock and JJuxton section of the Midland railway, The soil is loam; subsoil, limestone. The land is 4 north-west from Matlock and 153 from London, in the chiefly in pasturage. The area of Wensley and Snitter­ Westem division of the county, hundred and county ton township is 1,994 acres of land and 14 of water; court district of WirkswBakewell union, and in (of the township and South Darley ecclesiastical the rnral deanery of Bakewell. archdeaconry of Derb~· parish), chiefly employed in mining. and diocese of Southwell. The parish is connected with Parish Clerk, James Knowles. North Darley by a bridge over the Derwent, and was I WENSLEY is about 1 mile south from Darley Dale governed by a Local Board from I863 until the "Local station. The reading room and library here was built Government Act, I894 '' (56 and 57 Vict. c. 73), estab- in 1891 by Mr. Joseph Taylor, of Manchester, at a cost lished an Urban District Council. The eccle5iastical of £ 1 ,000 ; the library contains upwards of soo volumes. parish was formed Aug. zo, I845, from Darley Dale. The Bridgetown and Oakerside are hamlets in the parish. church of St. Mary, erected in I 843, is a building of stone, in the Norman style, consisting of chancel, Post & M. 0. Office, Wensley. John K. Colman, sub- nave of one bay and a tower on the south-west, con- postmaster. Letters are delivered at Wensley through taining one bell: the chancel was added in 1886 and Matlock Bath about 7·45 a.m. & about 4.30 p.m.; further restoration was carried out in IS91 at a cost of dispatched at 1.30 & 6.20 p.m. week days only. [,r,3oo, when a :stained window was presented by Mr. Winster is the nearest telegraph office, 2 miles distant Joseph Taylor, of Manchester; there is also a window Letter Box at Bridge Town, cleared at I.15 & 6.20 p.m.; erected by Mr. C. K. Hall; one placed by the parish- Oakerhill, at 6.50 p.m ioners in 1903 to the Rev. John W. W. Booth M . .A.. Wall Letter Box, Cross Green, cleared at 6.30 p.m. vicar here 1882-92, and one erected in I9II to the Rev. 1 week days only Everard Evered by his children : there are 220 sittings. t URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL. The Ngister dates from the year I845· The living is a perpetual curacy, net yearly value £250, with resi­ The Council meet at the School room, Cross Green, the dence, in the gift of the rector of Darley, and held first wednesday in the month, at 6.30 p.m. since 189.3' by the Rev. Edward Augustus Had:field. Members. There is a Wesleyan chapel at Wensley, and a United Chairman, Sydney Bo wrnan. Methodist church at Oakerside, built in 1854. The Vice-Chairman, Thomas Ellis. Oake:rhill and Cross Green inclosu:re charity of 97 acres, Retire in March, 1913. let at [16o yearly, is applied in part payment of the Sydney Bowman I Jonathan George Vicart1 poo:r rates, the ratepayers paying the remainder. The J oseph Hardy