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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Beauchief, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.42 |
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| BEAUCHIEF, formerly extra-parochial, is now
a parish, 4 miles south-by-west from Sheffield and 3½ north-west
from Dronfield, in the North Eastern division of the county, on the
borders of Yorkshire, situated in the vale of the Sheaf, a station
on the Midland railway, in the Eckington petty sessional division,
hundred of Scarsdale, union of Ecclesall Bierlow and Sheffield county
court district. The chapel of St. Thomas, erected in 1660 out of part
of the ruins of the abbey, is a small building, with a western tower
in the Norman style. The register dates from the year 1812 for baptisms
and from 1814 for burials. The living is a donative, exempt from any
ecclesiastical jurisdiction, in the gift of Col. Edward Strelley Pegge-Burnell
J.P. ; the Rev. William Mercer M.A. of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge,
and vicar of Norton Woodseats, is chaplain. Beauchief abbey was founded
by Robert FitzRanulph, lord of Alfreton, Norton and Marneham, between
the years 1172 and 1176, and assigned about 1183 to canons of the
Premonstratensian order; who received their name from Premonstre (Premonstratum),
a desert valley in Picardy, bestowed upon St. Norbert, the founder
of the order, by the Bishop of Laon, and so called because pointed
out, as it was said, by the Blessed Virgin, to be the head of this
reformed order ; of this monastic house, dedicated to St. Mary the
Virgin, some fragments still remain. Beauchief Hall, occupied by WiIliam
Wilson esq. J.P. is a handsome mansion, situated near the abbey, and
has extensive gardens and grounds. Col. Edward Strelley Pegge-Burnell
J.P. of Winkburn Hall, Notts, is lord of the manor and principal landowner.
The soil is loamy; subsoil, varies. The chief crops are wheat, barley,
oats, turnips and hay. The area is 745 acres or land and 3 or water;
rateable value, £2,156; the population in 1881 was 97. Parish Clerk, George Watson. Letters through Sheffield ; the nearest money order office at Abbeydale; telegrams, Dore station Railway Station, John Dicken, station master Wilson William J.P. Beauchief hall Biggin Jn. Arth. farmer, Cockshutts farm Sampson George, farmer & land agent Sampson George & Son, land agents & surveyrs. agnts. to the Beauchief estate Sampson William, farmer & land agent Smith Jn. Jas. farmer & wood steward [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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