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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Alkmonton, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.20 |
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| ALKMONTON is a township and picturesque village,
2 miles south-west from Longford, 6 south from Ashborne and 6 from
Tutbury (the nearest railway stations are Tutbury and Ashborne), in
the Western division of the county, Appletree hundred and petty sessional
division, Ashborne union and county court district, rural deanery
of Longford, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. In 1849
the township of Alkmonton was, with the liberty of Hungry Bentley,
formed into a parish, called the "chapelry district of Alkmonton".
The church of St. John, erected in 1843, chiefly at the cost of the
late William Evans esq. and consecrated by Bishop Lonsdale in 1848,
is a building of flint and stone, in the Early English style, consisting
of chancel, nave, south porch and a western turret containing one
bell : in 1878 the church underwent a thorough restoration, when the
chancel was added, the porch rebuilt and a bell turret erected : the
circular Norman font, the sculptures upon which have been destroyed,
was dug up in Cockshut Croft in the course of excavations on Alkmonton
Old Hall farm in this parish: there are 160 sittings. The register
of baptisms dates from 1850, of marriages from 1855, and of burials
from 1856. The living is a vicarage, net yearly
value £104, including 1 acre of glebe, with residence in the
gift of Sir Thomas W. Evans bart. and held since 1887 by the Rev.
William Buck Dearden, who is also vicar of Yeaveley; the vicarage-house
was erected in 1844 at a cost of £1,200. Sir T. W. Evans bart.
D.L., J.P. of Allestree Hall is lord of the manor and sole landowner.
The soil mixed; subsoil, marl, clay, gravel and loam. The chief crops
are hay, wheat, barley, oats and beans. The area of the township is
739 acres; value, £714; the population in 1881 was, of the parish
177, and of the township 95. Hungry Bentley is a liberty in the parish of Alkmonton, 6 miles south from Ashborne. Lord Vernon is lord of the manor and owner of the liberty. The area is 1,086 acres; rateable value, £1,323 ; the population in 1881 was 82. Letters through Derby. WALL LETTER BOX cleared at 4.30 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Longford. Tutbury & Ashborne are the nearest telegraph offices Church of England school (mixed), erected with house for mistress, in 1856, & entirely supported by Sir T. W. Evans; Miss Mary Ann Parker mistress Alkmonton. Dearden Rev. William Buck, Vicarage Bailey Richard & Thomas, farmers Maulton William, farmer, Old hall Rose Arthur John, farmer Saint, John, farmer Saint, Samuel, farmer, Dairy house Hungry Bentley. Hidderley Samuel, farmer, Bentley hall Hidderley William, farmer Jeffery Mary (Mrs.), farmer Peach Lawrence, blacksmith Salt William, farmer Tudor Thomas, farmer [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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