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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Eggington, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p. 202 |
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| EGGINTON is a parish,
village and joint station on the North Staffordshire and Gt. Northern
railways, 4½ miles north from Burton-on-Trent, 8 south-west
from Derby and 127 from London, in the Southern division of the county,
hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, Derby petty sessional division,
Burton-on-Trent union and county court district, rural deanery of
Longford, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. The river
Dove bounds the parish at its southern extremity and falls into the
Trent. The church of St. Wilfrid is a building of stone consisting
of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, vestry, and a low embattled
Perpendicular tower at the west end surmounted by pinnacles and containing
3 bells, the second of which is an early bell, with an inscription
in Lombardic characters, and was no doubt spared when its fellows
were sold to repair Monk's bridge ; the first and third are dated
1778 and 1615 respectively : the oldest existing work may be referred
to about 1290-1300, when the church was almost entirely rebuilt :
the arches of the nave differ in style, that on the north side being
Decorated, and consisting of three arches, on circular piers ; the
south aisle is 14th century work, with piers of four clustered shafts
: the chancel retains a good sedile, with trefoil head, and near it
a piscina ; in the opposite wall is an almery ; the chancel also contains
an oak chair, dated 1686, and a copy of Murillo's Holy Family, by
Henderson, presented to the church in 1833 by Jos. Leigh esq. of Belmont,
Cheshire : in the south aisle, beneath an arched recess, is the mutilated
recumbent figure of a woman, holding a heart in her hands : in the
chancel are monuments to Sir Simon Every, the first bart. ob.
1649, and Sir Henry Every, second bart. d. 29 Sept. 1701 ;
the church has also various other memorials of this family, from 1690
to 1812, and to successive rectors of the parish : the church was
repewed in 1874 and is now (1890) about to be restored : there are
300 sittings. The register, which is well preserved, dates from the
year 1561, but is a copy from an earlier volume until 1598 ; in the
vestry is kept a black-Ietter copy of Erasmus' Paraphrase of the New
Testament. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £245,
gross income £390, including 51 acres of glebe, with residence,
and held since 1888 by the Rev. Joseph Chatto Lamb M.A.. of Jesus
College, Cambridge, the patronage being now in five parts, two turns
belonging to Sir Henry Flower Every bart. two to R. C. Pole esq. and
one to Joseph Leigh esq. The charities amount to £70 yearly,
for distribution, arising from £,2,000, left by William Newton
in 1820, and £300, left in 1836 by the Rev. John Leigh, late
rector : Bugbury's charity, of 12 penny loaves weekly, dates from
the early part of the 18th century. The Burton Corporation Sewage
farm was established here in 1885. Egginton Hall, the seat of Sir
Henry Flower Every bart. D.L. J.P. lord of the manor, is a handsome
mansion, situated in a park of about 50 acres. The principal landowners
are Sir Henry F. Every bart. the Corporation of Burton-on-Trent and
the Etwall and Repton incorporation. The soil is chiefly light; subsoil,
gravel. The parish is mostly pasture land, consisting of large dairy
farms; there are crops of wheat, barley, clover, mangolds and turnips.
The area is 2,289 acres; rateable value, £9,989; the population
in 1881 was 408. Parish Clerk, Joseph Hardwick. POST OFFlCE.-Robert Webster, receiver. Letters are received from Burton-upon-Trent at 8.10 a.m.& dispatched at 3 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Willington A School Board of 5 members was formed in 1873; (G. Bansall, clerk to the board & attendance officer Board School (mixed), erected in 1857 for 70 children ; average attendance, 60; Miss Emily Edmonds, mistress Railway Station. Alfred Bailey, station master CARRIER.-William Baldwin ; to Burton-Upon-Trent, thurs.; to Derby, fri *Letters received through Etwall, Derby. Every Sir Henry Flower bart. D.L., J.P. Egginton hall Lamb Rev. Jsph. Chatto M.A. [rector] Robinson Philip, Park hill COMMERCIAL. Baldwin William, carrier Bakewell James, farmer Bromley John, farmer & coal merchant Brooks William, farmer Bull William, Every Arms P,H. & farmer Bullock Thomas, farmer, Ivy house *Egginton Dairy Co. (Thos. Hy. Bullock. manager & sec.), Egginton junction Hicking Stephen, cabinet maker Hollingworth Jn. Barton, grocer & baker Hulland Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Jackson William, farmer Locker George, farmer Parker William, wheelwright Pendleton William, farmer Radford Walter, farmer Wade Jas. farmer, Egginton cottage Webster John, gardener to Sir H. Every bart. Webster Robert, tailor, Post office White George Llewelyn, farmer & colliery agent Woodward Robt. wheelwright & blacksth [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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