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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Peak Forest, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.283 |
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| PEAK FOREST is a liberty
or parish and small village, 5 miles north-east from Buxton, 4 south-east
from Chapel-en-le-Frith, in the High Peak division of the county,
hundred of High Peak, union, petty sessional division, and county
court district of Chapel-en-le-Frith, rural deanery of Buxton, archdeaconry
of Derby, and diocese of Southwell. The Peak Forest station of the
Midland railway is about 2 miles distant, and locally in Wormhill.
The old church, a rectangular building, erected 1657 by Christiana,
Countess of Devonshire, partly in the Italian style, has been pulled
down. The present church of King Charles the Martyr, built in 1876,
about 20 yards distant from the former site, by the Duke of Devonshire
K.G. is an edifice of stone in the late Perpendicular style, consisting
of chancel, nave of three bays, aisles (Needham's chapel) on the north-east,
vestry and an embattled tower with pinnacles, serving also as porch,
on the south-west, and containing one bell dated 1657 : there is a
monument to the Bower family of Rushop, dated 1756, and one to the
Needhams (1742) : the centre light of the east window has been filled
with stained glass to the memory of the Rt. Hon. Lord Frederick Charles
Cavendish P.C., M.P. Chief Secretary for Ireland, assassinated in
the Phoenix Park, Dublin, 6 May, 1882, and there are also stained
windows in the Needham chapel and in the south aisle: there are 240
sittings. The register dates from the year 1669, but the earliest
portion is in a dilapidated state ; from 1727 it is almost perfect.
The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £195, including It
acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Duke of Devonshire
K.G. and held since 1881 by the Rev. George Rogerson L.Th. of Hatfield
Hall, Durham. This was originally a free chapelry in the king's forest, and was extra-episcopal and extra-parochial, and up to 1804, when it was abolished by Act of Parliament, there was an average of 80 weddings annually, which might fairly be termed "Gretna" marriages. The minister then held a court for the proving of wills and making of affidavits &c. The ancient seal, now in the possession of the vicar, is dated 1661. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. The Duke of Devonshire K.G. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. Many extensive lime works adjoin the Midland railway station. There are the following charities :-Nicholas Green's, £2 4s. ; John Vernon, of Sparrow pit, 10s. ; John Vernon, Small dale, 10s. ; Humphrey Wilshaw's, £1 1s. ; Jeremiah Ward's, 10s. ; Samuel Frith's, £1 ; John H. Radcliffe's, £2 13S. 4d.; John Frith's (given in linsey), £1 4s. ; Samuel Needham's (in calico), £6 ; Countess of Devonshire's fund for apprenticing poor children, about £10; Rev. F. Gisborne's (for flannel), £5 10s. ; and S. Needham's of £4 2s. 6d. for coals. The soil is brown loam; subsoil, limestone ; the land is chiefly used for grazing purposes, the arable growing oats. The area is 5,299 acres ; rateable value, £4,935; the population in 1881 was 499. Parish Clerk, J. F. Pearson. POST OFFICE.-Mrs. Elizabeth Wylde, receiver. Letters arrive from Stockport at 9.45 a.m. ; dispatched at 5.45 p.m. week days only. Tideswell is the nearest money order & telegraph office Church of England School (mixed), erected in 1868, for 100 children; average attendance 50; William Capewell, mast Rogerson Rev. George L.Th. Vicarage COMMERCIAL. Barker William, farmer, Perryfoot Barnsley George, farmer, Dam hole Bower Annie (Mrs.), farmer, Laneside Bower Nathaniel John, farmer, Slack ho Bower William, farmer, Beyton's dale Clayton Wm. joiner & farmer, Dam dale Crichlow John, jun. farmer, Barmoor Crichlow William, farmer, Peak's hill Lakin Joseph, farmer, Small dale Fletcher Edward, farmer, Loose hill Fletcher Francis, shoe maker Fletcher Henry, farmer, Kemp's hill Fletcher John, farmer, Dam dale Fletcher John, farmer, Ivy farm Fletcher Sarah (Mrs.), farmer, Pedleycote Fletcher William, farmer, Back lane Goodwin Samuel, farmer, Beyton's dale Hadfield Robert, farmer, Heath Hadfield Sarah (Mrs.), frmr. Small dale Hadfield William, farmer, Dam side Hall Herbert, Devonshire Arms P.H. Sparrow pit Hambleton John, farmer Hill George, Devonshire Arms P.H Hill George, farmer, Brock terrace Hill Joseph, farmer, Chamber knowl Hoyle Daniel, coal merchant Hoyle Daniel, farmer, Snelsow Hoyle John, farmer, Back lane Hoyle 'Thomas jun. farmer & shoe ma Hoyle William, farmer, Small dale Jackson John, farmer, Old dam Jackson John, jun. farmer, Eldon Jane Lomas Joseph, butcher Lomas Joseph, farmer, Chamber farm Lomas Thomas, farmer, Barmoor Mellor Joseph, farmer, Barmoor Mellor George, farmer, Loose hill Mellor Thomas, farmer, Rushop edge Parker William, farmer, Small dale Peak Forest Equitable Co-operative Society Lim. (Jn. Thos. Taylor, mngr) Pearson John, farmer Sellors Joseph, joiner Taylor Charles, farmer, Harratt grange Taylor Jonathan, farmer, Barmoor Vernon Frank, farmer, Knowl top Vernon William, farmer, Ridge close Warhurst John, farmer, Judge close Watts Henry, farmer, Copp Watts Isaac, farmer, Rushop edge Wilson James, farmer, Small dale Wylde Elizh.(Mrs.), farmer, Post office [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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