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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Chilcote, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.93 |
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CHILCOTE is a township, on the river Mease, 6½ miles
south-west from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 8 north-east from Tamworth, 9 south-east
from Burton-upon-Trent, and 3 south-west from Donisthorpe station
on the Ashby and Nuneaton branch of the Midland railway, in the Southern
division of the county, belonging to the parish of Clifton Campville,
in Staffordshire, and forms a detached portion of the hundred of Repton
and Gresley, Swadlincote petty sessional
division, union and county court district of Tamworth, rural deanery
of Tamworth, archdeaconry of Stafford and diocese of Lichfield. The
chapel of St. Matthew is a small plain brick building, which, after
being wretchedly repaired in 1842, was thoroughly renovated in 1885
by Mrs. Robertson, of Nether Seal Hall, in memory of her late husband,
Frances Robertson esq. and their only son; it consists of chancel,
nave, north porch and a small turret on the western gable containing
one bell: in a niche in the south wall stands the upper part of the
14th century octagonal font, 27in. in diameter : previous to the repairs
of 1842 there was a round-headed Norman doorway in the north wall
of the nave: there are 48 sittings. The living is a chapelry annexed
to the rectory of Clifton Campville, average tithe rent-charge £580,
joint gross yearly value £728, including 103 acres or glebe,
with residence, in the gift or H. J. Pye esq. and held since 1868
by the Rev. Thomas Samuel Fraser Rawlins M.A. late fellow of Worcester
College, Oxford, who resides at Clifton Campville, Staffs. Mrs. Mary
K. Robertson, of Nether Seal Hall, is the sole landowner. The soil
is mixed ; subsoil, sandstone, clay and gravel. The chief crops are
wheat, barley, beans, oats and turnips. The area is 1,325 acres ;
rateable value, £1,915; the population in 1881 was 194. Parish Clerk, Charles Spencer. Letters through Ashby-de-la-Zouch, which is the nearest money order & telegraph office, arrive at 9.30 a.m. WALL BOX cleared at 5.10 p. m. week days & 10 a.m. Sundays School (mixed), erected in 1876, for 40 children; average attendance, 18; Miss Mary Cowan, mistress Faux Joseph Wright, farmer Faux Richard, farmer Mear John, farmer Mear John, jun. farmer Thompson Richard, farmer [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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