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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Swanwick, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.313 |
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SWANWICK is a hamlet and ecclesiastical district, in the parish
of Alfreton, 1½ miles south from Alfreton and about a mile
north from Butterley station on the Ambergate, Mansfield and Southwell
branch of the Midland railway. Swanwick was constituted a consolidated
chapelry by Order in Council, 22 Nov. 1861, and is in the Midland
division of the county, Scarsdale hundred, Belper union, Alfreton
petty sessional division and county court district, rural deanery
of Alfreton, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. The church
of St. Andrew, erected in 1860, at a cost of about £3,000, is
a building of stone in the Geometrical Decorated style, and consists
of chancel, nave of five bays, aisles, north porch and a turret over
the western gable containing one bell: the chancel is fitted with
oak stalls and the west window is stained: under the chancel is a
spacious parish room: in 1889 an oak pulpit, reading desk and lectern
were set up at a cost of about £100 : there are 450 sittings,
of which 300 are free. The register dates from the year 1861. The
living is a vicarage, net yearly value £153, with residence,
in the gift of trustees, and held since 1890 by the Rev. Stanley Augustus
Pelly B.A. of Trinity College, Dublin. Here are Baptist, Primitive
Methodist and Free Methodist chapels. In the neighbourhood are extensive
collieries, the property of Charles Rowland Palmer-Morewood esq, J.P.
Swanwick
Hall, a little south-east of the village, is a brick mansion, situate
in a small park, the seat of Christopher Wood esq.: there are also
the Grange, a stone mansion, the seat of George Cressy Hall esq. J.P.
situate in a park, and The Hayes, a stone mansion, the seat of Fitz-Herbert
Wright esq. D.L., J.P. A considerable part of the district of Sleet
Moor is in this parish. The principal landowners are C. R. Palmer-Morewood
esq. J.P. of Alfreton, Christopher Wood esq. George Cressy Hall esq.
J.P. and Lieut.-Col. Fitz-Herbert Wright J.P., D.L. of Alfreton. The
soil and subsoil are various. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley
and much land is in pasture. The area is 963 acres ; rateable value
included with Alfreton ; and the population in 1881 was 1,747. Parish Clerk and Sexton, Nehemiah Spencer. POST, M. O. & T. O., S. H. & Annuity & Insurance Office.- James Gabbitas, postmaster. Letters arrive from Alfreton at 6.45 a.m. & 3.15 p.m.; dispatched 9.50 a.m. & 6..15 p.m.; no sunday delivery National Schools, opened in 1888, for 192 boys, 189 girls & 200 infants; average attendance, 146 boys, 115 girls & 147 infants; Frederick George Clarke, master; Miss Alice Hardy, girls' mistress; Miss Ella Keary, infants' mistress CARRIER.-George Gadsby, to Nottingham, wed. & sat. & Derby, fri Elliott Alfred, Prospect house [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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