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| Monyash, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.267 |
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MONYASH, in Domesday "Maneis," situated among the
hills, is a small town, chapelry and township, with ONE ASH, 5 miles
from Miller's Dale station on the Ambergate and Manchester section
of the Midland railway,5 south-west from Bakewell and 8 from Buxton,
in the Western division of the county, hundred of High Peak, Bakewell
union, petty sessional division, county court district and rural deanery
of Buxton, archdeaconry of Derby, diocese of Southwell. The church
of St. Leonard consists of chancel, nave, aisles and an embattled
western tower with an octagonal spire, containing 3 bells, the 2nd
of which is of ancient date, with an invocation to the Virgin; the
1st and 3rd are respectively dated 1732 and 1656 : in the south waIl
of the chancel are three graduated sedilia under a Norman arcade,
prolonged towards the east so as to include a piscina under the fourth
arch: traces of Early English work appear in a blocked window in the
chancel, and in its buttresses : the east window is square-beaded
with plain mullions and almost all the other windows are somewhat
similar, either Perpendicular or of some more debased style : the
font is a pannelled octagon, bearing on one panel a quatrefoil, and
on another a shield of arms: the roofs are all flat and plastered,
and there is a gallery at the west end: in the south aisle is a sort
of transept or chantry, and in the north aisle are remains of the
doorway leading to the rood-Ioft ; some portions of the tower are
Early English; in it is preserved an ancient chest, 10 feet long by
2 feet broad and bound with many clamps of iron : in 1887 the church
was thoroughly restored, mainly at the expense of the Ven. Dr. Balston,
archdeacon of Derby and vicar of Bakewell ; the chancel, portions
of the body of the church and the tower and the whole of the spire
were rebuilt, the old material being used as far as practicable; the
church was also new-roofed and reseated : there are 183 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1701. The living is a vicarage, net
yearly value £45, including 64 acres of glebe, with residence,
in the gift of the vicar of Bakewell, and held since 1888 by the Rev.
W. Harold Ford, of Trinity College, Dublin. The Society of Friends
have a meeting-house and the Primitive Methodists a new chapel. There
are charities of about £16 annual value for distribution, left
in 1818 by the Rev. Francis Gisborne, sometime rector of Staveley.
A weekly market on Tuesdays was granted to this place in 1340, and
a fair for three days at the festival of Holy Trinity; these are now
discontinued. An ancient market cross, now consisting of the shaft
and base only still stands in the centre of the village. It is recorded
in Domesday that Monyash was a penal settlement for refractory monks.
A Barmoot court is held here once in six months, for determining all
disputes and debts relating to lead mines in the hundred of High Peak.
The principal landowners are William Finney esq. who is lord of the
manor, Stephen Melland esq. and the trustees of the late Richard Finney
esq. The land is principally on limestone; the whole district has
a bleak appearance, the partition fences being all stone walls without
mortar. The area is 3,416 acres ; rateable value, £3,069 ; the
population in 1881 was 399. HUNTLOW, Hurdlow, Whim and Ditchhead are places here. Parish Clerk, Thomas Bonsall. POST OFFICE.-William Palfreyman, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive at 10.30 a.m. through Bakewell, which is the nearest money order & telegraph office ; dispatched at 4.45 p.m. week days only. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid National School (mixed), erected in I871 by subscription & enlarged in 1890, for 103 children ; average attendance, 70 ; the school is endowed with £29 yearly, arising from land formerly belonging to the Free School ; a certain number of boys & girls are still educated free ; John Jones Morgan, master; Mrs. Mary Ann Morgan, mistress for infants CARRIERS :- To Bakewell, William Bonsall & James Briddon, on fri To Buxton, William Bonsall, on sat. returning same day Critchlow William Finney Mrs. Ivy house Ford Rev. W. Harold, Vicarage Harrison Thomas Melland Stephen COMMERCIAL Andrew William, farmer, Highlow Bagshaw James, farmer Bembridge Benjamin, cattle dealer Bembridge Job, huckster Bonsall Joseph, farmer Bonsall William, farmer & carrier Bramwell Thomas, blacksmith Briddon James, farmer & carrier Briddon Saml. frmr. The Cales, One Ash Bunting Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Critchlow James, farmer & cattle dealr Critchlow John Henry, shopkeeper Critchlow Mark, Bull's Head P.H. Hurdlow Dutton Joseph, farmer Finney Martha (Mrs.), farmer, Ivy ho Frost David, farmer Greensward Mining Company (Thomas Hampson Brown, manager), proprietors of lead & ochre mines Harrison Jas. farmer & tallow chandler Hawley Thomas, wheelwright Hawley William, farmer, Summerhill Heathcote Robert, wheelwright Hibbert John, coal merchant Housley John, farmer Housley John, jun. farmer Johnson Edwin, mason Lomas George, farmer, One Ash grange Melland Stephen, farmer & landowner Mellor Benjamin, farmer, Whim farm Millington John, farmer, Endmoor Millington Joshua Caleb, marble & chert merchant Needham John, Golden Lion P.H Palfreyman William, butcher & grocer, Post office Skidmore Martha (Mrs.),Bull's Head P.H Webster George, farmer, Rake End [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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