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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Sheldon, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.298 |
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| SHELDON is a parish formed out of Bakewell,
3 miles west from Bakewell and 2½ from Longstone station on
the Ambergate and Manchester section of the Midland railway, in the
Western division of the county, union, petty sessional division and
county court district of Bakewell, hundred of High Peak, rural deanery
of Bakewell, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. The village
is situated on an eminence and commands varied and extensive views
of the surrounding country : the water supply is derived from springs.
The church of St. Michael and All Angels, erected in 1865, is a building
of stone, in the Gothic style, and takes the place of a more ancient
edifice formerly standing in the village street, with the materials
of which it is partially constructed ; it consists of apsidal chancel,
nave, south porch and a turret containing one bell : there are 140
sittings. The register of baptisms dates from the year 1813 and of
burials from 1853, other entries being made at Bakewell, and there
is a record of a singular marriage between a woman of eighty and a
lad of fourteen at this chapel in the 17th century. The living is
a vicarage, annexed to that of Ashford, joint gross yearly value £250,
in the gift of the vicar of Bakewell, and held since 1871 by the Rev.
John Reddaway Luxmoore of St. Bees, who resides at Ashford. There
is a Primitive Methodist chapel here. There are two charities of about
£13 annual value. The Duke of Devonshire K.G. is lord of the
manor and principal landowner. The soil is principally limestone ;
subsoil, stone beds or shale. The land is used for grazing. The acreage
is 1,070 ; rateable value, £1,048; the population in 1881 was
169. Letters by messenger from Bakewell arrive at 9.20 a. m. Ashford is the nearest money order & Bakewell the nearest telegraph office National School (mixed), erected in 1878, for 36 children ; average attendance, 24 ; Miss Elizabeth Needham, mist COMMERCIAL. Bateman William, farmer Blamey Catherine (Miss), shopkeeper Bonsall John, farmer Bramwell George, farmer Brocklehurst Critchlow, farmer Brocklehurst John, farmer Brocklehurst Thomas WiIliam, farmer Brocklehurst William, farmer Frost James, saw mills, & farmer Frost Michael, farmer Frost Michael, jun. farmer Furniss Thomas, farmer Gyte Anthony (Mrs.), Devonshire Arms P.H. & farmer Harrison John, farmer Naylor William, farmer [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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