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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Kingsterndale, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.244 |
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| KINGSTERNDALE is an ecclesiastical parish,
formed in 1851 from the civil parishes of Bakewell and Hope, on the
river Wye, 3 miles east from Buxton railway station and 9 north-west
from Bakewell, in the Western division of the county, Bakewell hundred
and petty sessional division, Chapel-en-le-Frith union and county
court district, rural deanery or Buxton, archdeaconry of Derby and
diocese or Southwell. Christ Church, erected in 1848, is a small building
in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch
and a turret containing one bell ; the chancel is lighted by three
stained lancet windows : there are two others at the west end : the
church affords 130 sittings. The register dates from the year 1851.
The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £130, with residence,
in the gift of the Misses Pickford, and held since 1890 by the Rev.
George Allen Dawson. here are the remains of an ancient stone cross.
The principal landowners are the Misses Pickford, Sir Joseph Cocksey
Lee J.P. of Lea Hurst, Cromford, and Messrs. James Holme and John
James Lees. The soil is brown loam ; subsoil, limestone. The land
is chiefly used for grazing purposes, the arable growing oats. The
population in 1881 was 191. Sexton, William Bonsal. Letters received about 8 a.m. through Buxton, the nearest money order & telegraph office School, erected for 25 children ; average attendance, 19 ; & supported by the family of Pickford ; Miss J. Harrison, mistress Dawson Rev. George Allen, Vicarage Goringe George Pickford Misses Gilman James, farmer, Cowlow Heskey Thomas, farmer, Cowlow Holme James, farmer & landowner Holme Thomas, farmer, Cowdale Moseley Thomas, farmer, Cowdale Ollerenshaw Joseph, farmer, Cowdale Skidmore & Bradbury, farmer Skidmore Benjamin, farmer Taylor Jonathan, farmer, Cowlow [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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