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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Muggington, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - pp.268-269 |
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| MUGGINTON is an extensive parish on an acclivity
and comprises the townships of MUGGINTON, WESTON UNDERWOOD, RAVENSDALE
PARK and MERCASTON in the Southern division of the county, hundreds
of Appletree (except Weston Underwood), the three first townships
in the Union of Belper, Derby petty sessional division and county
court district, and Mercaston in Ashborne petty sessional division,
union and county court district and all in the rural deanery of Duffield,
archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. Mugginton is 7 miles
north-west from Derby and 4½ west from Duffield station on
the Midland railway. The church of All Saints consists of chancel,
nave of four bays, south aisle, south porch and an embattled western
tower with pinnacles and containing 4 bells ; the 3rd and 4th, dated
1512, are said to have been brought from the suppressed priory of
Breadsall; the 1st and 2nd bear date respectively 1721 and 1659: there
is a clock inside the church the tower, apart from its late battlements,
is much the same as it was in the Norman period, although the original
round headed doorway has been blocked up and another opened in the
south wall: traces of Early English work are seen in the small doorway
of the south aisle c. 1250-75 and to the Decorated period belong
the south doorway and porch, and the four pointed arches on octagonal
piers forming the arcade of the south aisle: during the Perpendicular
period the south aisle was lengthened to form a chapel, separated
from the chancel by two pointed arches; later on, probably between
485 and 1509, considerable alterations
were made, Perpendicular windows being inserted both in the aisle
and nave, and the high-pitched roofs reduced: the font is 4th century
work, hexagonal in shape, and bears an inscription: there is a small
piscina in the south wall of the aisle: a good oak screen, of Perpendicular
tracery, in fair preservation, divides the aisle from the chapel:
in the south chapel is an altar tomb, 4 feet in height, covered with
a slab of Purbeck marble, inclosing a figure in brass of a knight
in plate armour, girt with a heavy sword, his bare head resting on
a helmet and his feet on a lion ; around his neck is a collar of SS.
with a portcullis as a pendant, and by his side a lady in a long flowing
garment and mantle, tied with tasselled cords; at the angles are shields
with the arms of Kniveton impaling other coats, and at the base the
figures of four sons (a fifth being missing), also in armour, and
one daughter; only a fragment of the ribbon inscription remains, but
the tomb is that of Nicholas Kniveton, of Mercaston and Underwood,
ob. 1400 ; the date of the brass is probably c. 1475
; on the sides of the tomb are other shields of arms : against the
west wall of the aisle is an inscription to Hugh Radcliffe, of Islington,
"haberdasher of hatts " to Charles I. (1678) : and at the
west end of the aisle a mural monument to the Rev. S. Pole, a former
rector (1758) : other monuments of some antiquity disappeared during
the renovation of 1845: the interior of the chancel was restored in
1888 at the cost of the vicar: there are 300 sittings, all free :
in the churchyard is a very large yew tree, planted in 1735. The register
dates from the year 1764 for all entries, and is in fair condition.
The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £382, net
yearly value £352, with 26 acres of glebe and residence, in
the patronage of R. W. Chandos-Pole esq. and held since 1869 by the
Rev. Randle Feilden B.A. of Pembroke College, Oxford. The church library,
principally of the 16th, 17th and early part of the 18th centuries,
chiefly consists of theological and classical works. INTAKE CHAPEL,
a very small building, erected about 1660 in the parish of Hulland,
as a chapel of ease to Mugginton, was enlarged and re-seated in 1890
: divine service is conducted here every Sunday afternoon: the chapel
has an endowment in land of £40 yearly. (See
HULLAND.) Here is also a Baptist chapel. A charity of £5
10s. was left in 1817 by the
Rev. F. Gisborne, sometime rector of Staveley, to be distributed yearly
in flannel for the benefit of the poor. The Rev. Brabazon Hallowes
M.A. of Glapwell Hall, is lord of the manor of Mugginton, and Lord
Scarsdale of that of Ravensdale Park and Weston Underwood. R. W. Chandos-Pole
esq. J.P. of Radburne Hall, is lord of the manor and principal landowner
of Mercaston. The principal landowners are the Rev. B. Hallowes M.A.
Lord Scarsdale and Burton Burough esq. The soil is gravel; subsoil,
lime and sandstone. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley, and
about three parts pasture. The area of the parish is 5,324 acres ;
area of Mugginton only, 2,203 acres ; rateable value, included with
that of Weston Underwood, £4,542 ; the population of Mugginton
township in 1881 was 194, and of the parish 501. RAVENSDALE PARK is a township, 1 mile north, with a population in 1881 of 46; acreage, 635; rateable value, £569. MERCASTON is a township, three-quarters of a mile west, in Ashborne union and petty sessional division: the population in 1881 was 86; the area is 1,157 acres; rateable value, £1,931. Sexton, William Miller Letters arrive from Derby, via. Windley, at 8 a.m. WALL LETTER BOX cleared at 5.50 p.m. week days only. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Brailsford Free School, for 20 boys, built in 1840 & enlarged in 1885 ; built by subscription, for 60 children; average attendance, 58 ; Herbert Shaw, master; Miss Jane Bigg, mistress Weston Underwood is a township, in the parish of Mugginton, hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, pleasantly situated 6 miles north-west from Derby and 4 west from Duffield station. Weston Lodge, at present unoccupied, is delightfully situated, and commands some very fine views. Lord Scarsdale is lord of the manor and owner of the land. The acreage is 3,177 ; rateable value. £4,542, including Mugginton ; the population in 1881 was 344. WALL LETTER BOX cleared at 5.35 p.m. week days only. Letters through Derby arrive at 7.30 a.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Duffield CARRIER TO DERBY.-William Murfin, every fri Mugginton. Feilden Rev. Randle B.A. Rectory Wrench Thomas Pickering, The Grange COMMERCIAL. Beeston Matilda (Miss), shopkeeper Boam Maria (Mrs.), farmer Boam Sarah (Mrs.), farmer, Lane end Burton John, farmer, Cockshut hill Coxon John, farmer, Leasowes Feam Edmund, farmer Flint George, farmer Flint Joseph, farmer, Corkleys Johnson Samuel, farmer, Mansell park Johnson William, farmer, Shuckton Kay Thomas, farmer, Clives Kirkland John, farmer Knifton James William, farmer Murfin William, farmer & carrier Oakley Samuel, farmer, Lime kilns Offiler David, farmer, & Cock Inn Raynes George, hay & straw dealer Shaw Herbert, poor rate collector Smith Francis, farmer Stevens Robert, blacksmith Tempest William, farmer, Newlands Woodward William, farmer Wrench Thomas Pickering, farmer, The Grange Weston Underwood. Bainbrigge William, farmer, Mosleylee Gregory Samuel, farmer, The Clouds Hunt Elizabeth & Lucy (Misses), farmers Miller James, farmer Miller John, shopkeeper Ride Hugh, wheelwright Wardle Richard, farmer Wardle William Ratcliffe, farmer Mercaston. Archer Samuel, farmer, Wild park Archer Charles, farmer, Wild park Burton James, jun. farmer Dethick George, miller (water) Pedley Samuel, farmer Webster & Hunt, thrashing machine proprietors Webster Geo. farmr. & mechanical engnr Webster Samuel, farmer Webster Thomas, farmer, Mercaston hall Webster William, farmer, Netherfield Yates Hamlet, farmer, Wild park Ravensdale Park. Boam Joseph, farmer Gadsby Wm. farmer & manure manfr Holmes Charles, farmer, Hill Top farm Holmes William, farmer Rodgers William, farmer Sherlock John, farmer Slack James, farmer Slack James, jun., farmer Walker Thos. gamekpr. to Lord Scarsdale Wallis George,, farmer Yates William, farmer [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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