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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Linton, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - pp.247 |
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LINTON is a township, 1 mile south-west from Gresley station
on the Leicester and Burton branch of the Midland railway, 130 miles
from London, 5 south-east from Burton- on-Trent, 6 west from Ashby-de-la-Zouch,
in the parish of Church Gresley, southern division of the county,
Repton and Gresley hundred, Swadlincote
petty sessional division, Burton-on-Trent union and county court
district, rural deanery of Repton, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese
of Southwell. Christ Church, a chapel of ease to Church Gresley,
was erected and opened in 1881, at a cost of £3,500, and is
a structure of brick, in the Early English style, consisting of
apsidal chancel, nave and a western turret containing one bell:
an organ was introduced in 1886, at a cost of £500, principally
through the liberality of Messrs. Beard Brothers : there are 450
sittings; the Rev. William Watson M.A. of Wadham College, Oxford,
has been curate in charge since 1889. There are Primitive Methodist
and Wesleyan chapels. The principal landowners are Mrs. Clay, John
Beard, Morris Richardson,
of King's Standing, Burton-on-Trent, John Yeomans and William Orpe
Burton esqrs. The soil is a rich loam ; subsoil, sand and gravel.
The chief crops are barley, wheat and turnips. The area is 860 acres;
rateable value, £4,228 ; the population in 1881 was 1,193. Parish Clerk, John Clamp. POST & M. O.O., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-Mrs. Elizabeth Patrick, receiver. Letters arrive from Burton-upon-Trent at 5.30 a.m.; dispatched at 7.10 p.m. The nearest telegraph office is at Gresley railway station A School Board of 7 members was formed in 1882, for the united district of Linton & Castle Gresley ; J. Marsh, Cauldwell, clerk to the board & attendance officer Board School (mixed & infants), erected in 1884, for 250 boys & girls & 150 infants ; average attendance, 220 boys & girls & 120 infants; Tom Alton, master; Miss Mary Boulter, infants' mistress Bates Robert Beard John, Manor house Watson Rev. Wm. M.A.[curate in charge] COMMERCIAL. Allsop Isaac, butcher Archer John (Mrs.), farmer Burton Wm. Orpe, farmer & landowner Campion James, shoe maker Chadwick Ralph, blacksmith & beer ret Clamp George, shopkeeper Clamp Thomas, baker Coton Park & Linton Colliery (Henry Green, proprietor; Thomas Allen Wilson, certificated manager) Davies Charles, bricklayer Dennis William, shopkeeper Evans William, Red Lion P.H Grice William, Carpenters' Arms P.H. & blacksmith Gotheridge George, grocer & farmer Patrick Elizh. (Mrs.), shpkpr. Post office Simpkin Henry, bricklayer, shopkeeper & beer retailer Simpkin Mary (Mrs.), farmer Summerfield James, farmer Tilley Joseph, beer retailer & butcher Walthew Wm. grocer & beer retailer Wood Walter, Holly Bush P.H. & cooper [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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