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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Heath, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.230 |
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HEATH, in Domesday called "Lune," and
afterwards "Lowne," or "Lund," is a parish and
small agricultural village, on the road from Chesterfield to Mansfield,
5 miles south-east from Chesterfield, and 3 north-east from Clay
Cross station on the Midland railway, in the Chesterfield division
of the county, Scarsdale hundred, Chesterfield union, petty sessional
division and county court district, rural deanery of Chesterfield,
archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. There will be a
railway station in the parish on the branch of the M. S. and L.
railway, now (1890) in course of construction. The old church of
All Saints was situated about a quarter of a mile east of the present
village of Heath, where, no doubt, was the ancient village of Lowne
or Lund: subsequently, the heath being subjected to cultivation
and houses rising upon it, the new village took the name it now
bears: this church was pulled down, with the exception of the south
porch, in 1852: the porch still stands in the churchyard in its
original position, and from the material of the dismantled building
a small mortuary chapel has been constructed, which bears on its
eastern wall two churchwardens' names and the date 1622, and retains
other carvings of shields and emblematic figures: the flooring of
the part of the old church now remaining is chiefly composed of
monumental stones, none, however, earlier than the 18th century:
into the west wall has been built an oblong sepulchral slab of the
12th century, bearing incised representations of the human figure
: over the entrance to the porch is a crucifix; the structure itself
is chiefly Norman, and on its eastern side is a larger crucifix,
cut in strong relief : the present church of All Saints, erected
in 1853, is a building of
stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel and nave and
a western tower with spire, containing 5 bells, hung in 1883 at
a cost of about £400 : there are four stained windows and
250 sittings, 80 being free. The register dates from the year 1682.
The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £184,
net yearly value
£174, including 4 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift
of the Duke of Devonshire K.G. and held since 1859 by the Rev. Henry
Cottingham M.A. of Magdalene College, Cambridge, who is also vicar
of Ault Hucknall and prebendary of Southwell. Gisborne's charity
of
£7 5s. yearly, left in 1818 by the Rev. Francis Gisborne, sometime
rector of Staveley, is for clothing to be distributed by the vicar.
In the neighbourhood are coal mines. The Duke of Devonshire K.G.
who is lord of the manor, and Earl Manvers are the landowners. The
soil is mixed, of a loamy and black heathy mixture ; subsoil, clay.
The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The acreage is 1,611;
rateable value, £2,158; the population in 1881 was 356. Parish Clerk, William Houldsworth. POST, M. O. & T. O., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office. -Samuel Hardwick, receiver. Letters arrive from Chesterfield at 7 a.m. ; dispatched at 6.10 p.m WALL LETTER BOXES.-Hardstoft, cleared at 3.50 p.m. ; & Shire lane at 6.10 p.m School (mixed), erected in 1816 & enlarged in 1867 & 1879, for 150 children; average attendance, 76 ; chiefly supported by the Marquess of Hartington ; Miss Margaret Ann Rippon, mistress CARRIER TO CHESTERFIELD.-John Hays, sat Cottingham Rev. Henry M.A. [prebendary of Southwell], Vicarage Denham Mrs Ward John, West End house COMMERCIAL. Bacon John, farmer Bennett William, tailor Grant James, wood steward to the Marquess of Hartington M.P Hardwick Charles, farmer Hardwick Samuel, butcher, Post office Hardwick William C. farmer Houldsworth William, blacksmith Jepson John, farmer Joule John, farmer Maylor Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Naylor John, farmer Pattison John Henry, farmer Pattison Mark, farmer Roberts Robert, farmer, High house Rome William, Elm Tree P.H Rose Thomas S. shopkeeper Sleney George, farmer Shacklock Charlotte (Mrs.), farmer & shopkeeper Smith Samuel, farmer Toft George, wheelwright Whetton William, farmer, Owl Cotes White William P. grocer Whitworth Charles, blacksmith Widdowson William, mason Wingerworth & Hardwick Colliery Co. (John Ward, managing partner) Owl Cotes colliery [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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