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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Hazlewood, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - pp.226-227 |
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HAZLEWOOD (or HAZELWOOD) is a small township and parish, formed
1846 from the civil parish of Duffield, with a station on the Midland
branch of the Derby and Wirksworth railway, in the parish of Duffield,
2 miles north-west from Duffield, 3 south-west from Belper, 6½
north-west from Derby and 133 from London, in the Mid division of
the county, Appletree hundred, Belper union and petty sessional division,
Belper and Ilkeston county court district, rural deanery of Duffield,
archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. The church of St.
John the Evangelist is a stone building, erected in 1846, chiefly
at the cost of the late Colonel R. H. Colvile, consisting of a chancel,
nave, south porch and a western turret containing 2 bells, dated 1846:
the chanceI is separated from the nave by a handsome screen: the roof
is finely arched and ribbed: all the windows are stained, the east
window being the gift of Miss Anne Amelia Colvile, formerly of Duffield
Hall : the font was given by Mrs. Colvile : there is a handsome monument
in the early English style, erected by W. W. Hull Esq. M.A. to his
wife, who died in 1853, and a marble tablet, erected in 1879 to Colonel
R. H. Colvile: there are 300 sittings, 150 being free. The register
dates from the year 1846. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value
£196, including 2 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift
of the Bishop of Southwell, and held since i885 by the. Rev. William
Henry Turner B.A. of Jesus College Cambridge: the vicarage house,
a residence in the Elizabethan style, was erected principally at the
charges of the late Colonel R. H. Colvile. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Chevin House, the seat of Sir John Gay Newton Aileyne bart. J.P. and
The Knowle, the residence of the Hon. Louis Hope, are beautifully
situated. Lord Scarsdale, Percy Hull esq. and Herbert Strutt esq.
are the chief landowners. The soil is clay and sand ; subsoil, rock.
The land is chiefly in pasture. The area is 1,313 acres ; rateable
value, £.2,630 ; the population in 1881 was 686 in the parish,
and 413 in the township. Sexton, Daniel W. Watson. WALL LETTER BOX, near the church, cleared at 6.20 p.m. week days only. Letters through Derby received at 8 a.m. Letters for Chevin House, Farnah green & Depth of Lumb through Belper, arrive at 7 a.m. The nearest money order & telegraph offices are at Belper & Duffield National School (mixed), erected in 1846, for 100 children ; average attendance, 90 ; John Edwin Agar, master Railway Station, Herbert Swift, station master Alleyne Sir John Gay Newton bart. J.P. (member of Institute of Civil Engineers, member of Mechanical Engineers & vice-president of the Iron & Steel Institute), Chevin house Brown Mrs. Hillside Burbige-Hambly Charles Hambly, Holmside Hanson Isaac, Depth of Lumb Hope Hon. Louis, The Knowle Murphy Octavius Brabazon, The Mount Turner Rev. Wm. Hy. B.A. Vicarage Wilkinson John COMMERCIAL. Beeson William, farm bailiff to Henry Woodiwiss esq Blackwell John, farmer Cooper David, joiner Cooper Jonathan, farmer Eley George, farmer Hind William, farmer Hitchcock William, farmer Hudson Barbara (Mrs.), farmer Jackson James, wheelwright Knifton Curtis, farmer Land Jeremy, farmer Newton Thos. farmer, Wallstone farm Payne Gregory, quarry master Payne Samuel, Bell P.H. Farnah green Redfern George Henry, farmer Simpson John, farmer Slater John, farmer Slater Stephen, farmer, Smedley John, farmer, Hazlewood hall Smith John, blacksmith, Farnah green Spendlove John, butcher & farmer Spendlove William, farmer Stone George, farm bailiff to C. H. Burbige-Hambly esq. Holmside Street Nathan, stone mason, Farnah grn Travis John, farmer White William, cowkeeper, Lumb lane Wilkinson John, grazier Wilder Samuel Major, farmer Yeomans Thos. farmr. Nether Lane frm [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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