DI'RECTOltY. J DERBY SHIRE. HEAGE. 295 ptlarked thus t receive their letters COMMERCIAL. Marsden Joseph William, gardener td through Belper.) Ball Frank, farmer Percy W. Hull esq. The Lodge fAlderson Mrs. Chevin end Beardsley William, farmer Mason Thomas B. farmer tEddowes Cha.s. Randolph Beaumont, 1 Chadwick James & Co. grocers Scotney James, farmer The Rise, Blackbrook I Cooper David, joiner Shaw George, cowkeeper Fitzwilliam Lady Charlotte Mary Cox on John, cow keeper Slater John, farmer & assistant over­ Wentworth, Holmeside Hole Isaac, butcher seer & clerk to the Parish Council, Bull Percy Winstanley, The Knowle Jackson James, wheelwright Chapel farm tPym Edgar James, Watergates tJones John William, farmer Smith Jabez, farmer Simpson George J.P. Hazlebrow Land Herbert, farmer Spendlove Fanny (Mrs.), cow keeper Smith Goorge S Land Jeremy, farmer &i sub-postmistress Smith John, The Mount Leese James, farmer Swift Herbert, coal merchant, Rail­ Turner Rev. Wm. By. B. A. Vicarage Lomas Robert (Mrs.) &i Son, farmers, way station fW od Alfred Gratton, Lumb grange Hazlewood hall Watson Daniel, cowkeeper HEAGE (or High Edge) is a large parish, with a Sexton, William Street. rcattered population, on the Chesterfield road, r! miles Post & M. 0. Office.-Miss Rebecca Alton, sub-post­ east from Ambergate station, on the Derby, Chester­ mistress. Letters arrive from Belper at 8 a.m.; dis­ field and Sheffield branch of the Midland railway, 2~ patched at 8.50 a.m. & 6.30 p.m. ; no sunday delivery. north-east from Belper and 143! from London, in the Ambergate is the nearest telegraph office, 3 milea ~hd division of the county, Appletree hundred, Belper distant union and petty sessional division, Belper and Ilkeston Post, M. 0. & T. Office, Ambergate.-Isaa~ Adams, county court district, rural deanery of Duffield, arch­ sub-postmaster. Letters are received from Derby; deaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. The arrive at 5.30 a.m. & 4.30 p m. ; dispatche-d at I<>.45 parish was under the management of a Local Board a.m. & 7.30 p.m.; snndays, 7.30 p.m from z863, but was succeeded in 1895 by an Urban Wall Letter Boxes.-Nether Heage, 7.30 a.m. et 6.30 District Council, under the "Local Government Act, p.m.; Bakers hill, 8.55 a.m. &i 6.40 p.m. week days 1894" (56 and 57 Vict. c. 73). The. river Amber flows only; Station, ro.15 a m. &i 12.35, 6.55 & g.4o p.m.; along the northern boundary of the parish and joins sundays, 9·5 p.m the Derwant at Ambergate. The Cromford canal also County Constabulary, William Bags;haw, constable in passes through. In 1844 it was formed into an ecclesi­ charge of Ambergate; William Doughty, constable in a~tical parish from the civil parish of Duffield and charge of Heage tnade a rectory r867. The church of St. Luke, formerly a chapel of ease to Duffield, consists of chancel, tran- URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL. septal nave, south porch and a turret on the north s1de containing one bell: in the chancel are two Meeting Ist thursday in the month at Council house,_ ~tained windows, erected in r88I by F. N. Smith esq. at 7.30 p.m. to his father and his wife, and there are also three others: the 14th century font, which formerly stood Members. jn the garden at Heage Firs, has been renovated and Chairman, William Hemmings. placed in the church : the church was enlarged and Retire April, 1913. ft>paired in 1836, and in 18gB was reseated and decorated throughout: there are 450 sittings : half an Francis Newton t Elija,h Weightman David Wainwright acre of land was added to the churchyard• in r88r. The register dates from the year z8zg for baptisms and Retire April. 1914. 1847 for marriage.s and burials. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £2oo, including 4 acres of glebe, with Samuel Allsop l Fred Ernest Paige residence, in the gift of the vicar of Dnffield, and held Israel Learn aince 1888 by the Rev. George Arthur Tindall B.A. of Retire April, 1915. Corpus Cbristi College, Cambridge. The church of St. Anne, at Ambergate, erected in IBgo-I, at a cost William Coope ' Richard Peden of about £I,8oo, is a buildihg of stone in the Early William Hemmings English style, consisting of chancel, nave, transept, north porch and a western turret containing one bell: Officers. the basement comprises a large room, used as a Clerk, Bernard Glossop, Ambergate Sunday ~hool: there are 200 sittings. The living is a Treasurer, Henry Holmes, Parr's Bank Limited, Belper perpetual curacy, net annual value £235, with resi­ Medical Officer of Health, Nicholas Charles Boyle L.R.O.P. dence, in the gift of five trustees, and held since 1897 & S.Edin. Scarsdale house, Cromford road, Ripley by the Rev. Harry Eardley Field B.A. of Durham Surveyor & Sanitary Inspector, Bernard Glosaop, Univenity. There are Wesleyan, Primitive, Reform .A.mbergate and United Methodist chapels here. A charity of Collector, Edwin Barlow, Brook street, Heage [6 12s. nd. yearly, left in r817 by the Rev. F. Gis­ borne, sometime vicar of Staveley, is distributed in SCHOOLS. ,.cloth and flannel to the poor of Heage. Holland's charity of £6, left in 1744, is divided between the rector (who There is a school committee of 6 managers for the four receives £3 ~.) and the poor who attend Heage church, following grouped schools; Joseph Barlow, Bipley who receive the remainder, the value. in bread or money road, coro-espondent to the school committee where necessary. Francis Cecil Albert Hurt esq. of Assistant School Medical Officer, W. L. Thomson M.D., .!lderwasley Hall, is lord of the manor. George Herbert Ch.B.Gla<:., D.P.H.Camb. 33 Raginald street, Derby Strutt esq. of Makeney House, Derby, and Francis Heage CentTal (mixed &i infants), originally endowed by Nicholas Smith esq. of Wingfi.eld Park, are the principal George Storer in 1705 & rebuilt in 1go8, for 244 chil- mndowners. The soil is clayey; subsoil, clay and rock. dren; average attendance, 240; J oseph All sop, master; The chief crops are corn and grass and Toots. The area Miss Sarah Allsop, infants' mistress is 2,350 acres of land and 17 of water; rateable. value, Nether Heage (mixed & infants), erected in 1877, for 75 £n,9f)6; the population in I9II was 3·474 in the civil boys &i girls & 43 infants; average attendance, 95;, parish and Urban District, and 2,071 in the ecclesiastical Harry Lager, master; Miss Eunice Gray, infants' mist pariah in 190~. Upper Heage (mixed &i infants), built in 1877, enlarged in Toadmore and Ambergate, ~~ miles west-north-west; r8g6 &i again in IBgg, for 304 children; average attend- Boothgate. I mile south; Nether Heage, half a mile ance, 292; Alfred Watherston, master; Miss Helena wed, and Ridgeway, are places here. Adams, infants' mistress .Ambergate is the junction station on the Midland rail- Ambergate (mixed), erected in r8g8, for 153 children; 1ray for Derby, Sheffield and the Matlock, Buxton, Man- average attendance, n8; John Joseph Kirk, master; ehester and Liverpool and Mansfield, Worksop and Ret- Miss C. Holmes, infants' mistress ford lines. Railway Station., Ambergate. Robert. Manners, statn. mast HEAGE. .Allsop Thomas, farmer, Common A.lton Henry, beer retailer, Brook st Paige F'red Ernest, Ridgeway house, farm, Nether Heage Argyle John,cowkeeper, Nether Heage Nether Heage Allsop William, farmer, Manor farm, Barlow Edwin, butcher, collector of Per kin! Thos. Tower ho.N ether Heage Morley park poor rate & of Urban District rates, Tindall Rev. Geo. Arthur B.A.Rectory Alton John &i Rebeccs (Miss),farmers, Brook street COHMERCIAL. Chapel farm Barlow Joseph, farmer, correspondent Allen Willia:w, Spanker inn, Nether !.)ton Elizabeth Mary (Miss), farmer, to the Heage School Committee & Beage Heage Firs school attendance officer for Belpel' AllBOp Saml. farmer, :Morley Park fm Alton George, farmer, Ripley road • district, Ripley road .