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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Cauldwell, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.75 |
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| CAULDWELL is a township and chapelry, village
4 miles south from Burton-upon-Trent and 3 south-west from Gresley
station on the Derby and Birmingham section of the Midland railway,
in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Repton and Gresley,
parish of Stapenhill, Swadlincote petty
sessional division, union and county court district of Burton-upon-Trent,
rural deanery of Repton, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell.
The chapel of St. Giles is an ancient building of grey sandstone,
now chiefly in Decorated style, consisting of a chancel, nave,
south porch and a western turret containing two bells, cast in
1865 : of the original structure there remain in the nave two very
small lights of rude workmanship, one on each side, with circular
heads, and there is another in the north wall of the chancel ;
these are undoubtedly of pre-Norman work, and must have been where
Abbot Briteric gave the church of Stapenhill and its appurtenances
to Burton monastery : there are inscribed stones on the floor of
the chancel to Elizabeth, daughter of Edmond Sleigh, of Derby,
and wife of Collingwood Sanders (1588-1652); to Major Henry Sanders,
of London (1552-1616) ; and to Collingwood Sanders, lord of Cauldwell
and Ireton (1578-1653), a modern brass to Sir Thomas Gresley bart
M.P. d. Dec. 18, 1868 : the east
window is stained : the church was renovated in 1843 and restored
in 1865, and has 80 sittings. The register of baptisms and burials,
incorporated with that of Stapenhill, dates from 1679 ; marriages
were solemnized at Stapenhill. The living is a vicarage, annexed
to that of Stapenhill, average tithe-rent charge £110, net
yearly value £321, with 89 acres of glebe, in the gift of
the Marquess of Anglesey, and held since 1875 by the Rev. Edmund
Warbeck B.A. of Trinity college, Dublin, who resides at Stapenhill.
Here is a small Baptist chapel. Cauldwell Hall, the seat of Lieut.-Col.
Charles Milligan J.P. who is lord of the manor and principal landowner,
is a fine mansion of brick, surrounded by picturesque grounds with
an ornamental piece of water. The soil varies ; subsoil, clay.
The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots. The area is
1,028 acres ; rateable value,
£2,080 ; the population in 1881 was 164. WALL LETTER BOX cleared at 5.35 p.m. Letters through Burton-upon-Trent arrive at 8 a.m. The nearest money order office is at Litton & telegraph office is at Gresley station The children of the parish attend school at Roslington & Linton Milligan Lieut.-Col. Charles J.P. Cauldwell hall Beard John, farmer, Breach farm Beard Thomas, farmer, Norris croft Durant Marcus, Royal Oak P.H Grammer William, farmer Marsh John, farmer Swinnerton Joseph, farmer Tipper William, blacksmith [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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