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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Ridgeway (by Eckington), Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.290 |
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RIDGEWAY is an ecclesiastical
parish, formed in 1844 from the civil parish of Eckington, 2½ miles
north-west from Eckington station on the Midland and Manchester,
Sheffield and Lincolnshire railways, and 7 north from Chesterfield,
in the North-Eastern division of the county, hundred of Scarsdale,
Chesterfield union and county court district, Eckington petty sessional
division, rural deanery of Staveley, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese
of Southwell. The church of St. John, erected in 1840, at a cost
of £2,000, is a building
of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles,
porch and an embattled western tower with four pinnacles containing
one bell: the east window is stained: the church was restored in
1868 at a cost of over £2,000, and further restorations and
additions were made in 1883 at a cost of £1,000 : there are
650 sittings. The register dates from about the year 1843. The living
is a vicarage, net yearly value £300, paid out of the tithes
of the mother parish, with residence, in the gift of the rector
of Eckington, and held since 1868 by the Rev. Mark Gamwell Hubback
M.A. of University College, Durham. Here is a Wesleyan chapel, built
in 1848. The principal landowners
are the Rev. Edmund Hiley Bucknall-Estcourt M.A. rector of Eckington,
and Sir George Reresby Sitwell bart. of Renishaw Hall. The soil
is various, hardly two fields alike; subsoil, same. The chief crops
are wheat, barley, oats, hay, turnips and potatoes. Scythes, table-knife
blades and sickles are made here. The area is 2,625 acres ; population
in 1881 was 2,188. POST OFFICE.-John Nicholson, sub-postmaster. Letters through Chesterfield arrive at 8.30 a.m. ; dlspatched at 4.45 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office at Eckington. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid WALL LETTER Box cleared at 4.30 p.m. ; no collection on sundays. Police Station, Joseph Jowett, resident constable Board School (mixed), erected in 1873, for 200 boys & girls & 160 infants ; average attendance, 120 boys & girls 50 infants. William Berrill, master, Miss Lucy Smith, infants' mistress CARRIERS TO SHEFFIELD.-Jonathan Marsh, tues. thurs. & sat. returning same days ; John Nicholson, tues. thurs. & sat. returning same days. Broomhead Misses Goodall William, Oak house Hubback Rev. Mark Gamwell M.A. Vicarage Hutton John Jermyn, Newlands Hutton Mrs. The Lawn Morton William, Charnock hall Sayles Mrs. Rose cottage, High lane COMMERCIAL. Atkin Samuel, grocer Bell Jarvis, Queen's Head P.H Belfit Fred, farmer Bolsover Bros. wheelwrights, High la Bolsover Thomas & Sons, sickle manufacturers, High lane Bolsover Chas. Edwn. grocer, High lane Carnall Henry, farmer, High lane Drury Jas. Old Harrow P.H. White lane Dunston William, farmer, Geer lane Fiddler Frederick, butcher Fidler James, stone mason, High lane Fidler Margaret (Mrs.), farmer Fisher Jas. scythe mfr. & frmr. Burley hey Fox William & Sons, sickle reaping hook manufacturers Fox Emma J. (Mrs.), shopkeeper Fox George, draper Fox Lewin Fussell, butcher Goodliffe Charles, boot & shoe maker & shopkeeper, High lane Green George, farmer, Ford Green Herbert, draper Hartley John Joseph, Phoenix inn Haslam John & Sons, sickle manufrs Haslam Arth. farmer, Camm Ho. farm Havenhand Sam, beer retailer, High la Haywood Jarvis, farmer, Geer lane Helliwell Henry, farmer Hutton & Co. scythe, sickle & hook manufacturers, High lane Hutton John Jermyn, farmer, Newlands Kirkby Thomas, farmer, High lane Lemons William, farmer, Carter Hole la Lucas Jn. Wm. farmer, Church farm Marsh John, farmer, High lane Marsh Jonathan, farmer & carrier Marsh Samuel, farmer, Carter hill Moorcroft Angus, shopkeeper Moore Frederick, farmer, The Ford Morton William, farmer, Charnock hall Nicholson John, shopkeeper & carrier, Post office Rhodes John, farmer, White lane Rodgers Lacy, shopkeeper Rodgers Mary (Mrs.), White Swan Rodgers Thomas Hattersley, blacksmith & edge tool manufacturer Savage Joseph, boot maker Staniforth John, farmer, Litfield farm Sykes Joseph, architect Vardy Andrew, colliery propr. High lane Wall Hy. David, table knife blade forgr Wall Joseph, Bridge inn Wall William, shopkeeper & farmer Wall William, jun. farmer Walton Thos. market gardener, High la Watmough John, farmer, Carter lodge Whittaker John, tailor [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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