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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Horsley Woodhouse, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - pp.233-234 |
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HORSLEY WOODHOUSE is a township and village, and in 1878 was
formed into a parish from the parish of Horsley ; it is 7 miles north-east
from Derby, 3½ north-east from Duffield, 4 south-east from
Belper, and 1½ south-east from Kilburne station on the Derby
and Ripley branch of the Midland railway, in the Ilkeston division
of the county, hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, Smalley petty sessional
division, Belper union, Belper and Ilkeston county court district,
rural deanery of Duffield, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell.
The church of St. Susanna, consecrated by the Bishop of Lichfield,
May 30, 1882, and built at a cost of nearly £2,000, is an edifice
of local
stone, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, north
porch and a western turret containing one bell: the stained east window
was given by R. S. W. Sitwell esq. J.P. of Stainsby House, in memory
of some members of his family; another stained window and a brass
lectern were given by General T. E. Hughes at the consecration: there
are 240 sittings, all free. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly
value £216, with residence in the gift of Robert Sacheverell
Sitwell esq. of Morley Hall, and held since 1879 by the Rev. Arthur
Garmondsway Waldy M.A. of Merton College, Oxford. There are Wesleyan
and Primitive Methodist chapels here. Robert Sacheverell Wilmot Sitwell
esq.
J.P. who resides at Stainsby House, is lord of the manor and principal
landowner. The acreage is 622 ; rateable value, £2,842; the
population in 1881 was 906. Parish Clerk. William Bacon. POST OFFICE.-George Henry Parker, receiver. Letters arrive from Derby at 7 a.m. ; dispatched at 6.40 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Smalley National School (girls & infants), erected in 1869, for 130 children ; average attendance, 95; Mrs. Rosanna Walters, mistress The boys of this place attend the school at Smalley. Cadman Mrs [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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