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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Pentrich, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - pp.283-284 |
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| PENTRICH is a township and parish, 5 miles north-cast from Belper, 2½ south-west-by-south
from Alfreton, 3 west from Ambergate station, about 1¼ miles
from the Butterley station of the Midland railway, which is 135 miles
from London, in the Ilkeston division of the county, hundred of Morleston
and Litchurch, Belper union, Smalley petty sessional division, Alfreton
county court district, rural deanery of Alfreton, archdeaconry of
Derby and diocese of Southwell. The church of St. Matthew, standing
on a gentle height, is a building of stone, consisting of chancel,
nave of five bays, aisles, south porch, and a low western embattled
tower containing 5 bells, two of which are ancient ;
the others are dated 1715 and 1869 : the nave arcades are late Norman,
about 1150 ; the circular font, excluding the base, dated 1662, is
also Norman, to which style the lower part of the tower probably belongs,
its wall at this point being about 4 feet in thickness: the whole
building seems to have been renovated and enlarged in the Perpendicular
period, about 1430: in 1859 it was plainly but carefully restored,
with new pews and roofs, at the cost of the Duke of Devonshire K.G.
and in 1875 the chancel was re-floored and re-arranged: the east and
south windows are stained and the sills of several windows are composed
of sepulchral slabs with rudely incised crosses : there is a monument
to Edmund Horne esq. of Butterley Hall, d. 1873: and the church
affords 200 sittings. The register of baptisms dates from the year
1621, and of marriages and burials rather later; it contains also
records of a large number of collections by Brief, and the signatures
of 180 persons to the declaration of conformity to Presbyterian practices
insisted on by the Parliament about 1646. The living is a vicarage,
average tithe rent-charge £60, gross yearly value £150
with 27 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Duke of Devonshire
K.G. and held since 1874 by the Rev. William Jellicorse Ledward. There
is a Wesleyan chapel here. The poor have £7 5s. from the Gisborne
Charity in 1818 by
the Rev. Francis Gisborne, sometime rector of Staveley, for flannel.
There is a large colliery in this parish. In the garden of Mr. G.
J. Beighton is a sundial on a stone pedestal, in good preservation,
and dated 1660. The Duke of Devonshire K.G. is lord of the manor and
chief land-owner. The soil is mixed, but loam and clay predominate
; subsoil, chiefly clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats, roots and
pasture. The area of the township is 1,883 acres ; rateable value,
£2,388 ; the population in 1881 was 887 in the township, and
8,185 in the parish, which includes RIPLEY, which see. CONEYGREY House is in this parish and near to it is a hill supposed to have been a Roman station. WAINGROVES, formerly in this parish, is now included with Ripley. POST & M. O., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance office.-William Burgin, postmaster. Letters arrive via Derby at 7.20 a.m. & dispatched via Ripley at 6.25 p.m. Nearest telegraph is at Swanwick This place is included in Ripley United District School Board National School (mixed) built about 1800 by a former Duke of Devonshire, for 120 boys & girls & 60 infants ; average attendance 60. George Mountford master; Miss Emma Painter, mistress Ledward Rev. Wm. Jellicorse, Vicarage Towlson Arthur John COMMERCIAL. Atkinson Richard, farmer, Coneygrey Beighton George John, farmer Booth Job, farmer Booth Walter, shopkeeper Cutts Thomas, assistant overseer & rate collector, Hartshay Fletcher Brothers millers, (steam & water) & farmers Godber Benjamin Old Dog P.H. Haslam Wm. Colliery proprietr Hepworth Mary (Mrs.) Devonshire Arms PH. & farmer, Lane end Holmes Samuel, farm bailiff to W. C. Haslam esq Moore James, farmer Power John, farmer Smedley Richard, farmer, Amberley fm Tomlinson William, farmer Topham Annie(Miss), farmer Towlson & Co. cotton doublers & lace thread manufacturers, Egerton mill Turton John, farmer Wilson Gamaliel, farmer, Asherfield [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation are as they appear in the Directory.]
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More on site information about Pentrich and the surrounding area  Derbyshire's Parishes, 1811Wolley Manuscripts, Derbyshire for more information about Derbyshire
deeds, pedigrees, documents and willsSouth Wingfield Association, 1796, for the prosecution of
felons. Also included Pentrich and other nearby parishes or townships as part of the group. |
