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| Brassington, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - pp.59-60 |
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BRASSINGTON, anciently BRAZINCTUNE, is a township, village
and parish, formed out of Bradbourne in 1886, 6 miles north from Ashborne,
4 west from Wirksworth, the nearest railway station, and 5 south from
Winster, in the Western division of the county, Bradbourne civil parish,
Wirksworth hundred, petty sessional division and county court district,
Ashborne union, rural deanery of Wirksworth, archdeaconry of Derby
and diocese of Southwell. The High Peak line, belonging to the London
and North Western railway, has a station at Longcliffe, used only
as a goods station. The church of All Saints, situated on an acclivity,
is an ancient edifice of stone, chiefly in the Norman style, and was
thoroughly restored in 1880 at a cost of £1,400, raised by public
subscription: it consists of chancel, nave with clerestory, aisles,
south porch and a western embattled tower containing a clock and 3
bells, dating from 1677 to 1743 : of the original Norman fabric there
are extensive remains, particularly in the very narrow south aisle,
with its three semicircular arches, supported on massive rounded pillars
; and also in the south aisle of the chancel, from which it is separated
by two smaller Norman arches, the centre pillar being an octagon,
with well-defined foliage, of the later Norman period. The clock,
added in 1889, was presented by Mrs. Potts, of Manchester, in memory
of her late husband, at a cost of £100 : the tower and font
are Norman, and inside the west wall of the tower is a small stone
rudely carved in high relief with the three-quarter figure of a man
with one hand on his heart: the chancel has an almery on the south
side and on the opposite wall is a quaint inscription on brass to
Michael Adams B.D. of St. John's College, Cambridge, and rector of
Treeton, Yorks, who died here while on a journey, 27 Dec. 1680, and
to his son who is buried with him: there are 250 sittings. The register
dates from the year 1716, but its earlier portion is in a very dilapidated
condition. The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £10,
net yearly value £107, with residence and 11 acres of glebe,
in the gift of Miss Foster, and held since 1877 by the Rev. Isaac
Vandenheuvel Macrae, of St. Bees. There are Wesleyan, Congregational
and Primitive Methodist chapels. Gisborne's charity of £6 10s.
left in 1818 by the Rev. Francis Gisborne, sometime rector of Staveley,
is distributed yearly. John Buxton, in 1699, left £100, the
interest to be applied in apprenticing the poor children of the parish,
but this charity has been lost; George Buxton, in 1699, left 20s.
yearly for the necessitous; Samuel Mather, £1 annually from
the Buckleather close ; German Buxton left 30s. yearly from lands
in the village of Bradbourne : and in 1472 Thurstan Dale gave four
acres of land and directed the proceeds to be employed in educating
12 poor children of the parish. The landowners are Lord Scarsdale,
the legatees of the late Sir Joseph Whitworth bart. F.R.S., D.C.L.
(d.1887), H. Chandos-Pole-Gell esq. J.P. of Hopton Hall, J.
Watson, J. Shuttleworth and Thomas Hodgkinson, esqs. with a few smaller
proprietors. The soil is light; subsoil, limestone. The land is chiefly
in pasture for dairy produce. The acreage is £4,023 ; rateable
value, £5.404; the population in 1881 was 690. Parish Clerk, George Slater. POST OFFICE.-John Andrews, postmaster. Postal orders issued, but not paid. Letters arrive from Derby at 8.30 a.m. Box closes at 4.15 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Hognaston. There is no sunday delivery or dispatch. Wirksworth is the nearest telegraph office Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1871 by voluntary subscription & endowed with £7 15s. yearly, for 120 children; average attendance, 94 ; William Winnal, master CARRIER.-Francis Watson to Ashborne, every Saturday Breakell John William, The Hall Gould John, sen Hodgkinson Thomas, West end James Mrs. Ivy bank Macrae Rev. Isaac Vandenheuvel, Vicarage Truman Mrs Watson John COMMERCIAL. Allsop George, farmer Allsop George, jun. farmer & cattle dlr Allsop James, farmer Allsop Robert, pig dealer Allsop Thomas, cattle dealer Andrews John, tailor, Post office Breakell John Wm. manufr. of umbers &c. High Peak paint & color works Brindley Joseph, tailor & outfitter Brindley Thomas, grocer &c Broomhead John, farmer, Moor Charlton Alfred, assistant overseer Charlton George, farmer Cook John, Holly Bush P.H Cope William, farmer, & goods agent for London & North Western Railway Co. Longcliffe Dale Alice (Miss), dress maker Fearn Danl. coal agnt. for Hy. Wheatcroft Fearn Ebenezer, farmer &c. Fearn Fras. Jug and Glass P.H. Longcllffe Fearn John, grocer & corn dealer Gould John, jun. mine agent Gould Luther, agent for F. Wright.& Co. coal merchants Gould Thomas, farmer, Cliffe cottage Green-Armitage Edward, gannister sand & fire clay works, Longcliffe ; residence, Brassington. See advert Gregory John, farmer, Harbro' farm Grindy Isaac, farmer Handley Samuel, surveyor Harrison Joseph, farmer, Moulderidge Heathcote Robert, farmr. Knockerdown Hodgkinson James, farmer Hodgkinson Samuel, manager to Messrs. James White & Co. brick makers Howard John, farmer, Tithe farm KNOWLES JOHN & SON, builders, contractors, timber merchants & general smiths, Steam saw mills MelIor George, shoe maker MelIor Robert, farmer Millward William, farmer, Moor farm Radford John, blacksmith Rains John, farmer, Moor Seal Edmund, farmer Seal John, farmer, Clipshead Seal Thomas, farmer Seal William, farmer Seal William, jun. farmer & pig dealer Slack William, grocer & draper Slater George, landowner & farmer Spencer Francis, farmer Spencer John, butcher & farmer Spencer Sarah (Mrs.), Gate P.H Stone Samuel Thorn Tree P.H Taylor Joshua, wheelwright Torr William, farmer Walker William, farmer Walker William, shoe maker Waterfall John, farmer, Hoe grange Watson Francis, carrier Watson Joseph, farmer, Ivy house Watson Richard, George & Dragon P.H, & farmer White James & Co. firebrick manfrs. &c Wright Frank, corn & coal merchant &c.; & at Ashborne Yates Benjamin, shopkeeper [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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