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Ward Walt.er, farmer COMMERCIAL. Priestley Sam, farmer, Bentley hall Ward William, farmer, Summerley Ashton Jsph. joiner & rate collector Renshaw Annie ("Mrs.), shopkeeper Webster William, shopkeeper & beer Beard WaIter, farmer, May farm Post offi'ce ' retailer, green Fisher Mary (Mrs.), farmer Rhodes Albert, farmer Wheatley William, farmer Havenhand Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkpr Robinson James, farmer Widdison William, farmer, Moor Top Hebblethwaite Frank, farmer, Sickle- Shaw John, farmer, Birches farm farm, Apperknowle brook farm Shaw Thomas, blacksmith Helliwell Geo. shopkpr. &; news agent Smith William L. Chequers P.H COAL ASTOX. Mason George, shopkeeper Street Catherine ()Irs.), shopkeeper l'RIVATE RESIDENTS. Mather John, farmer Taylor Edward, Cross Daggers P.R Bruce 1\1r8 Oldfield William, beer retailer Taylor 1Villiam, beer retailer Harri:>on Frederick Gea. Crabtree ho Pashley George, file cutter Unwin Edward, farmer Hopw00d Geo. El!gland, Bentley hill Pears John, farmer, 1Voodcock farm, Unwin Wilfrid, shopkeeper Lucas 'rhos. Hl.\rrison, Bowshaw ha & overseer Valentine Wm. frmr. West Bank frm Marshall Frederick Powell Thomas, shopkeeper, beer re­ Widdowson William, carpenter Oxley Sidney, The Elms tailer & farmer 'Vindle ..John, farmer DRONFIELD WOODHOUSE is a parish formed in soil is fine light land; subsoil, limestone and gravel. The 1894 out of the parish of Dronfield, and comprises the chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, turnips and some hamlets of Dronfield 'Voodhol1se, Cowley, Mickley and land in pasture. The rateable area is 1,466 acres, rated Stubley. Dronfield Woodhouse is about I mile south at £3,983. from DronEeld station on the AmbeI1gate and Post Office, Dronfield WoodJhouse.-William Benneti, sub­ ,section of the l\Iiidland railway, about 6 north-west from postmaster. Letters through Sheffield, by foot post, Chesterfield and about 6 soutlh from Sheffie,ld, in the from Dronfield, arrive at about 10.15 a.m.; d~spakhe.d Korth Eastern division of the county, Scarsdale hundred, at 5.25 p.m. on week days only. The nearest money ~ssional Eckinglion petty division, Chesterfield uni{)n order & telegraph office is at Dronfield and county court di:rtrict, rural deanery of Dronfield, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of S{)uthwe,ll. The Board School (mixed), wdh master's residence, erected in inhabit-ants attend the church at Dronfield. The trustees 1875, at a cost of £3,060, for 200 children; average at· of the Cecil estate are the principal landowners. Tlw tendance, 135; George lVayne, master DRO~FIELD WOODHOUSE. Wilkinson Thomas 'Wood, farmer STUTILEY. Addington Frank, farmer 'Villiams Edward, greengroeer 'Walker Harry, Stubley house Bennett James, shopkeeper COWLEY. Biggin Joshua, farmer CO)I)IERCIAI,. Carline Caroline (Mrs.) shopkeeper Bingham Richard, farmer Biggin Isaac, farmer Dobbs George, farmer Hitch Benjamin, farmer Biggin Vernon, assistant overseer &; Elliott Emma (Mrs.), shopkeeper Holmes John, farmer, Cowley Bar clerk to the Dronfield 'Woodhouse Gammon Isaac, farmer J ohnson 1Villiam, farmer parish council Gregory James, shopkeeper Levick ·Wm. shopkpeper, Cowley Bar Bond Thomas, farmer Hattersley Henry, Miners' Arms P.Il Outram Ellis, joiner, Cowley Bar Bonser Thomas, farmer Pinder John, farmer Sharp Samuel, farmer Brunt John, beer retailer Simpson Edward, beer retailer Townley Joe, beer retlr. Cowley Bar Copley 'Villiam, grocer Stevenson Elizbth.S.(~Irs.),dressmkr Ward Martha (Mrs.),frmr.Cowley Bar Creswick George, farmer Swift Benjamin, farmer MICKLEY. Fox Ann (Mrs.), frmr. Barns farm Ward Frederick Evans, farmer Unwin John, farmer Sheard Richard, farmer, Stubley frm lVheatley George, blacksmith Warhurst Jane (~Irs.), farmer Vickers John, farmer DUFFIELD, delightfully situated in a valley, on the considerable property in this parish), his two wives and banks of the river Derwent and Ecclesbourne brollk, is a 20 children; the 3 children by the second wife, however, township, extensive parish and &tation on the Midland do not appear on the monument: the font is octagonal railway, si: miles north from Derby by the rililway and and dates from about 1002: the edif1ce underwmt exten­ 5 by road, 2! south from Belper andl 132 from London, in sive restoration in 1847, and has 578 sittings, 218 being the Mid division of the county, AppIetree hundred, Helper free. The situation of the churchyard on the banks of union, Belper and Ilkeston county court district, petty the Den~-ent is extremely picturesque, and a fine yew tree sessional division of Belper, rural deanery of Duffield, of great age stands to the north-east of the church. The archd€aconry of Derby and' diocese of Southwell. The registers date from the year 1598, and are in vpry fair township is lighted- with gas by a company formed in condition, some portions, however, being impprfect. The 1866. By Local Government Board Order, Farnah living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £.~8, net Green was in 1886 transferred from Hazlewood' to Duffield, yearly value £r5o, including 12 acres of glebe, with a and at the same date Cow Ways was transferred from vicarage house, in the gift of Rowiand Smith esq. and Duffield to Hazlewood, and part of Cowhouse Lane to held 'since 1858 by the Rev. Fras. Wellington Moore, of St. Shottle and Postern. The church of All Saints is a build- Bees,surrogate. Earl Beauchamp is lay rector, and receives ing of stone in mixed styles, from Early English to Per,- the great tithes commuted at £660. There are Baptist, pendicular, consisting of chancel with a north aisle, clpre- Wesleyan Methodist and! Free Methodist chapels: £270 storiedt nave of three bays, aisles, north transept, VEstry, was left by·Richard Holden in 1832 to the trustees of the south porch and' an embattled western tower with lofty Wesleyan chapel; £9 is distributed in bread to the poor spire, containing a clock and 10 bellS', 8 of which were on the first Mondav in the year, and the remainder is hung in r885 and 2 others in r887: no traces now exist applied to repairing the chapel. A cemetery, of 31 acre., of the ancient Saxon church of St. Alkmund, Lut the was opened! March the 9th, r880, at a cost- of £7,500: it corbel table of the north chapel affords sufficient evi- has two mortuary chapels and superintendent's house, dences of the former existence of a Norman edifice, and and is under the control of the Parish Council. Edward some sepulchral slabs of that date, with incised crosses, Potterell, in r667, built two almshouses for four poor have been built in above the wind{)ws of ille bplfry: the people, who receive IS. per week, with an extra payment arcade on the south side of the nave is Late Decorated,; at March and' Christmas. The late Sir Hichilrd Paul the north arcade ha~ semi-circular arches with classic J odTeU bart. left, in 1861, £ roo Three per Cents. to be capitals: all the piers lean towards the east or riverfront, distributed in clothing among those who have had the a circumstance attributed to the washingJf the alluvial largest families and have been least burdensome to the subsoil into the graves during floods: in r620 the church parish. The Rev. Francis GiSlborne, formerly rector of was new-roofed' and the names of the churchw.l.J"dens Staveley, left in 1817 £7 5s. yeat-Iy, to be laid out by the carved on the western truss: in the chancel aisle is an vicar in coats and flannel for the poor. 1Vebster cl'arity altar tomb of alabaster, with recumbent effigies, to Sir or Peak money, left in 169<} and 1703, is a f'md derived Roger Mynors and his lady (1536), the former in a com- from two-thirds of the interest of £5,089 18s. gd. now plete suit of plate armour, girt with a sword, his gauntlets standing in £2t Consolidated Stock, producing Dn 78. 4d. lying by his side, his bare hands placed together in the distributed half-yearly to roo poor persons not in receipt attitude of prayer, and round his neck a collar of SS; the of parish relief in the district of Duffield, Milford, Belper, lady wears an angular-shaped headJ d'ress, a broad collar, Holbrooke, Hazelwood and Heage: the manage:nent of gown and mantle; only the latter part of the inscription the funded property is, by an order of the Court of Chan- is now Tisible; in the tramept is a large aild quaint monn- cery, in the hand's of r9 co-optative trustees. The Old ment with effigies, dated 1603 and erected by himself, to Almshouses Fund charity, produced by the sale of wrne Anthony Bradshaw, of the Inner Temple, great-uncle of old almshouses, consists of £333 3s. 4d. invested in £21 the regicide, John Bradshaw (whose family possessed per cent. Consols; the dividends are distributed half-