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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Duffield (with Windley), Derbyshire |
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| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - pp.190-192 |
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DUFFIELD, delightfully situated in a valley, on the banks
of the river Derwent and Ecclesbourne brook, is a township, extensive
parish and station on the North Midland railway, 5¼ miles north
from Derby by the railway and 5 by road, 2½ south from Belper and
132 from London, in the Mid division of the county, Appletree hundred,
Belper union, Belper and Ilkeston county court district, petty
sessional division of Belper, rural deanery of Duffield, archdeaconry
of Derby and diocese of Southwell. The township is lighted with
gas by a company formed in 1866. The church of All Saints is a
building of stone in mixed styles, from Early English to Perpendicular,
consisting of chancel with a north aisle, clerestoried nave of
three bays, aisles, north transept, vestry, south porch and an
embattled western tower with lofty spire, containing clock and
10 bells, 8 of which were hung in 1885 and 2 others in 1887 : no
traces now exist of the ancient Saxon church of St. Alkmund, but
the corbel table of the north chapel affords sufficient evidences
of the former existence of a Norman edifice, and some sepulchral
slabs of that date, with incised crosses, have been built in above
the windows of the belfry : the arcade on the south side of the
nave is Late Decorated: the north arcade has semicircular arches
with classic capitals: all the piers lean toward the east or river
front, a circumstance attributed to the washing of the alluvial
sub-soil into the graves during floods : in 1620 the church was
new-roofed and tile names of the churchwardens carved on the western
truss : in the chancel aisle is an altar tomb of alabaster, with
recumbent effigies, to Sir Roger Mynors and his lady (1536), the former
in a complete suit of plate armour, girt with a sword, his gauntlets
lying by his side, his bare hands placed together in the attitude
or prayer and round his neck a collar of SS; the lady wears an
angular-shaped head dress, a broad collar, gown and mantle ; only
the latter part of the inscription is now visible : in the transept
is a large and quaint monument with effigies dated 1603 and erected
by himself, to Anthony Bradshaw, of the Inner Temple, great-uncle
of the regicide, John Bradshaw (whose family possessed considerable
property in this parish), his two wives and 20 children; the 3
children by the second wife, however, do not appear on the monument
: the font is octagonal and dates from about 1662: the edifice
underwent extensive restoration in 1847 and has 578 sittings :
218 being free. The situation of the churchyard on the banks of
the Derwent is extremely picturesque, and a fine yew tree of great
age stands to the north-east of the church. The registers date
from the year 1598, and are in very fair condition, some portions,
however, being imperfect. The living is a vicarage, average tithe
rent-charge £53, yearly
value £6, including 12 acres of glebe, with a vicarage house,
in the gift of Rowland Smith esq. and held since 1858 by the Rev,
Francis Wellington Moore, of St. Bees, surrogate. Earl Beauchamp
is lay rector, and receives the great tithes commuted at £660.
There are Baptist, Wesleyan Methodist and Free Methodist chapels: £270
was left by Richard Holden in 1832 to the trustees of the Wesleyan
chapel ; £9 is distributed in bread to the poor on the first
Monday in the year, and the remainder is applied to repairing the
chapel. A cemetery, of 3½ acres, was opened March the 9th, 1880,
at a cost of £7,500: it has two mortuary chapels and superintendent's
house, and is under the control of a burial board of 9 members.
Edward Potterell, in
1667, built two almshouses for four poor people, who receive 1s.
per week, besides flannel and coals at Christmas. The late Sir
Richard Paul Jodrell bart. Left, in 1861, £100 Three per
Cents, to be distributed in clothing among those who have had the
largest families and have been least burdensome to the parish.
The Rev. Francis Gisborne, formerly rector of Staveley left in
1817 £7 5s., yearly, to be laid out by the vicar in coats
and flannel for the poor. Webster charity or Peak money, left in
1699 and 1703, is a fund derived from two-thirds of the interest
of £5,089 18s, 9d. now standing in £2¾ Consolidated
Stock, producing £93 7s. 4d. distributed half-yearly to 100
poor persons not in receipt of parish relief ; in the district
of Duffield, Milford, Belper, Holbrooke, Hazelwood and Heage :
the management of the funded property is, by an order of the
Court of Chancery, in the hands of 19 co-operative trustees. The
Old Almshouse Fund Charity, produced by the sale of some old almshouses,
consists of £333 3s 4d. invested in £2¾ percent. Consols
; the dividends are distributed half-yearly among four poor persons.
About a mile from the village is Farnah Hall, an elegant mansion
belonging to Lord Scarsdale, now occupied by Claude Heaton Montford
esq. Duffield Hall is the seat of Rowland Smith esq., J.P. D.L.
Duffield Park is the residence of the Hon. Frederick Standish O'Grady
; the park consists of 30 acres ; the river Ecclesbourne passes
through the grounds and includes a trout hatchery. The LiIies,
Windley, is the residence of John Gilbert Crompton esq., D.L.,
J.P. ; the house is situated on a rising ground in the centre of
a park, and commands extensive views of the neighbouring country.
There are several other good houses in the township. Duffield Castle
has been ascertained through excavations carried on by Mr. W. Bland,
late headmaster of the endowed school here, in the early part of
1886, to have existed on what is known as Castle Hill; the foundations,
as now laid bare, through the aid of the Derbyshire Archæological
Society, exhibit the basement of a rectangular
Norman keep, 98 feet by 95, with two rooms of unequal size, surrounded
by concrete walls 15 feet thick: in the larger room is the well 4
feet in diameter and 80 feet deep, without any stone lining, with
the shales through which it was sunk, 800 years ago, still firm,
and 18 feet of water within it; the bucket has been restored from
the staves found in the well : the mound on which the castle stood
is 70 feet above the river Derwent, encircled by a moat now filled
in, except on the west side, where it is, in places, 16 feet across
the bottom, 32 feet at the top and 7 feet deep, and it inclosed an
area of 5 acres: many relics have been exhumed, such as a Norman
spur, a spear head, bridle-bit and three knives, besides human bones,
and from a trench cut through the mound a quantity of pottery was
taken, which, upon competent authority, was declared to be Roman
and indicating that the building stood upon the site of a Roman station:
the castle was erected by Henry de Ferrars, who rendered service
to William the Conqueror, by whom he was granted 114 lordships in
Derbyshire, besides estates elsewhere, and it remained with this
family until Robert de Ferrars, Earl of Derby, engaged in rebellion
against King Henry Ill. and, being captured, was tried for high treason
(1266), and, though his life was spared, the estates were confiscated
and conferred on Prince Edmund, Earl of Lancaster : subsequently
the Royal army destroyed the castle by fire, and ultimately all remains
of it disappeared. On Burley Hill, about a mile and a half from the
castle, a potter's kiln of the Norman period was discovered in 1862,
and found to contain pitchers, small porringers and dishes, the most
important being a pitcher 16 inches high, now in the possession of
Lord Scarsdale and marked with the horse-shoe badge of the family
of Ferrars. Herbert Strutt esq. LP. Lord Scarsdale, Lord Belper,
the Hon. F. Strutt J.P. and Rowland Smith esq, D.L., J.P. are the
principal landowners. The Duffield Inclosure award was made in
1791, under an Act passed in 1786; it occupies upwards of 200 large
sheets of parchment, and is kept with the parish registers and
Tithe Commutation award in a fire-proof safe at the vicarage. The
soil is mixed; subsoil, clay and sandstone. The chief crops are
wheat, and barley, and about three quarters pasture. The following
townships and hamlets are in this parish :-DUFFIELD, BELPER, HEAGE,
HAZLEWOOD, HOLBROOKE, MILFORD
and MAKENEY,
SHOTTLE and POSTERN, TURNDITCH and
WINDLEY. The area of the parish is 16,564 acres; and of the township
3,421 ; rateable value, £18,410,
for Duffield only; the population of the township in 1881 was 2,549. WINDLEY township is 2½ miles north-west. Lord Scarsdale is lord of title manor and chief landowner. The acreage is 1,158; rateable value, £2,125; the population in 1881 was 352. POST, M. O. & T. O., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.- Samuel Mills, receiver. Letters arrive from Derby at 4.45 a.m, & 4.40 p.m. ; dispatched at 11.40a.m. & 8 p.m. sundays, 8 p.m. Money orders are granted & paid from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m POST OFFICE, Windley.-John Lomas, receiver. Letters arrive from Derby by mail cart at 5 a. m. & dispatched 7.45 p.m. Duffield is the nearest money order office & Hazelwood station the nearest telegraph office WALL LETTER Box, King street, cleared at 7.30 p.m. week days only WALL LETTER Box, near The Lilies, Windley, cleared at 6.40 p.m, week days only SCHOOLS :- National Church of England, erected in 1870, for 100 girls; average attendance, 59; Miss Alice Hind, mistress Free, erected in 1869, for 180 boys; average attendance, 115; endowed with the rent of 13A. IR. 32P. of land, left in 1565 by William Gilbert, for the building of premises, the free education of a certain number of boys & the payment of a master; the yearly value of this endowment is about £35, in addition to which the school receives an annual sum of £50 from Webster's charity, making the total income about £85; 36 children from the village of Duffield & several other places in the old parish of Duffield have a claim to free education here, on account of the above charities ; Samuel Wright, master Infants,' established & wholly supported by Rowland Smith esq, J.P., D.I. for 130 infants; average attendance, 90 ; Miss Mary Clark, mistress Railway Station, Frederick Perry, station master Duffield PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Allen Arthur William Allport Sir Joseph James J.P. Spring hl Allsop Arthur, Ivy cottage Baddeley Mrs. Granville terrace Bland John, Castle hill Bland William, Granville terrace Bland William Robert, Granville ter Burgess Mrs. Castle hill Cash Mrs. Arden road Cash Mrs. Derby road Chadfield Edward Joseph, The Homestead Clarke Andrew Court Fredecick Hales, Farnah villa Crossland Enoch, Milford road Dakin William, CIeveland cottage Davis Shirley Wadsworth, Ellesmere Disney Mrs. Bank view Downes John Rathbone, Milford road Drew Mrs. Rose villa Dumelow John, Burley villa Dyer Mrs. Tamworth house Gillett Fras. Calvert, Duffield bank ha Greaves Frederick William, Kirkstile Green Mrs. Cedar cottage Greenwell Geo. Clementson Elmtree Idg Hardcastle John, Ivy lodge Henson John, Burley villa Heny Alfred, The Meadows Heywood Arthur Percival M. A., J.P., Duffield bank Higgins William Baker, Duffield Bank wd Hingley Andrew, Castle hill Holloway Charles, The Limes Holme Frank Dinsmore Hoskin Edward Hurd William, Loxley villa Jones Charles Henry, Hazeldene Jones Misses Longdon Miss, Castle lodge Longdon Mrs. Robert, Castle hill Loverock Mrs Mann Mrs. Lucius, Hazlebrow Marples John, Melbourne cottage Mart John Bradley, Derwent view Meakin William, F. P. Castle hill Montford Rev. Hy Cape M.A. [curate], Grantebrigge Montford Claude Heaton, Farnah hill Moore Rev, Francis, Wellington [vicar & surrogate], Vicarage Moore Herbert Octavius, Milford road Moore James Mason, Castle hill Morley John, Mile-stone-edge Morrison Robert Murphy James Edward, The Oaks Naylor Miss, Castle hill Needham Mrs. Spring hill Newbold Wm. James, Peveril cottage O'Grady Hon. Frederick Standish, Duffield park Orton Henry William, Lilac villa Peat, Alfred, King street Piggott Francis William, Castle hill Ridgard Mrs. Ivy cottage Scriven John Swain M. D Shoobert Walter, The Hollies Slater Mrs. Derby road Smith Mrs. The Ferns Smith Rowland D.L., J. P. Duffield hall Souter Miss, Granville terrace Stevenson Miss, 4 Milford road Tempest John, Milford road Terry Charles, Castle hill Thompson Frank Edwin Thompson Rev. Saml. (Cong.], Castle hill Travis Mrs. The Poplars Turner Miss, Green trees Waite Richard, Green trees Wake Thomas Edward, Moscow cottage COMMERCIAL. Abell Thomas, blacksmith & ironmonger Allsop Arth. surgical elastic bandage ma Allsop Gervase, saddler & harness ma Allsopp George, painter Alton Joseph, frmr. Farnah House frm Alton Joseph, jun. farmer, Meadows Ball Charles, farmer, Cumber hills Barton Elizh. Jane (Mrs.), quarry ownr Bates Benjamin, farm bailiff to H. T. Gadsby esq. Manor farm Bowmer Jsph. farmer, Hurley meadow Bridges John, farmer, Moscow farm Broderick Michael, dairyman Cash Joseph, greengrocer Calvert James & Sons, dispensing chemists ; & at Belper Cemetery (Joseph Pym, clerk to the burial board ; Henry Hough, supt) Chadwick James, grocer & baker Cholerton George, beer retailer Clarke James, New inn Clarke Mark, carpenter Collard William, plumber Copeland Joseph Benjamin, draper Cordon Robert Curtis, district surveyor, Hillside cottage Crossland Enoch, artist, Milford road Crossley John, miller (water) Derby Co-operative Provident Society Limited (branch) Duffield, Allestree &, Quarndon Gas Light & Coke Co, Limited (H. J. Redfern, sec.; Joseph Green, mangr) Duffield Angling Club (E. Barnes, sec) Duffield Conservative Association (Wm. Bland, hon. sec) Duffield Literary Institute (Rev. H, C. Montford. M.A, sec) Duffield Working Men's Conservative Club (William BIand, treasurer) Eite John, cattle dealer Ellis James, boot maker Eyre George Augustus, butcher Flanders James Cross, White Hart P.H Fowke Osmond, pork butcher Fowke William, boot maker Fowlston Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper Goodwin & Chambers, quarry masters, Duffield bank Gratton John Bruce, confectioner Harvey Henry, farmer, Flaxholme Hawley & Son, color & paint manufrs Henry Alfred, solicitor, The Meadows Hickinbottom Isabella (Mrs.), beer retailer Bingley Andrew, builder & contractor Holmes Frank Dinsmore B.A., L.R.C.P. Edin, physician & surgn Hoskins Edward, surgeon, & medical officer & public vaccinator Duffield dist, Belper union & Breadsall dist. Shardlow union & cert. factory surgn Hoskyns Edwrd John Hadderton L.R.C.P. Edin. physician & surgeon, Milford road Kent Henry, joiner Kent Mary Ann (Mrs.), grocer Kirk Samuel, Bridge inn Meakin Henry, cowkeeper Mills Samuel, grocer, & post office Montford Claude Heaton, school for engineers, Farnah hall Moore Herbert Octavius, solicitor, Milford road Morrison Robert L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S., L.M. Edin. physician & surgeon Murfin Samuel, shopkeeper Oliver William, farmer, Court house Peat Constance (Mrs.), grocer Porter Charles, farmer, Burley house Rains John, farmer, Newtony Redfern Thomas & Sons, grocers Richardson George, farmer Scriven John Swain M.D., C.M. surgeon Sheldon Sarah (Mrs.), grazier, Hall frm Shepherd Vincent, King's Head hotel & posting house Sims Selina (Mrs.), farmer Slater Joseph, farmer, Meadow Slater Stephen, farmer, Farnah green Slater Mary (Mrs.), farmer Smith George, shopkeeper Smith Wm. Bolton & Co. colliery agents & coal merchants, sole agents for the Butterley Co.'s coals & Marehay Jerries, Town street; & at Belper & Shottle Spendlove Robert, farmer Spencer William, farmer, Botany farm Stables William, farmer Stanesby William, cooper Stewart John, butcher & farmer Streets Jn. miller (water), Middle mills Taylor Henry, shoe maker Taylor Martha (Mrs.), hosier Taylor Timothy, farmer, Burley hill Tempest Joseph Michael, assistant overseer for Derby Wagstaff Joseph, cab proprietor Waite Richard, architect & land agent, Green trees Wake Tom, registrar of births & deaths, Moscow cottage Walker Wm. farmer, Burley grange Ward John, tailor Warren Elias, boot maker Wilson Agnes (Mrs.), butcher Windley. Burrows William Ebenezer, Old hall Crompton John Gilbert D.L., J.P. The Lilies COMMERCIAL. Allen Samuel, farmer, Windley hill Allen Samuel, jun. farmer, Hole farm Bainbrigge Wm. jun. farmer, Gun hills Bates William, blacksmith Burrows Albert Edward, farmer Cooper Rebecca (Mrs.), Puss in Boots P. H Fowke Herbert, farmer Goodwin William, farmer Leadham Thomas, farmer Livermore Frederick, beer retailer Moore Thomas William, miller (water) Moorley Joseph, corn merchant Smith Thomas, farmer Stewart Geo. farmer, Cumber Hills ho Whysall Wm. farmer, Champion farm [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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