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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Shipley, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.298 |
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| SHIPLEY is a township, in the civil parish
of Heanor and ecclesiastical parish of Cotmanhay, with a station on
the Erewash section of the Midland railway and another near ShipIey
colliery, on the Great Northern branch of the Ilkeston and Heanor
line now in course of construction, 127 miles from London by rail
and 134 by road, 1½ south from Heanor and 2½ north from
llkeston, in the Ilkeston division of the county, Morleston and Litchurch
hundred, Smalley petty sessional division, Basford union, Belper and
Ilkeston county court district. The river Erewash, which flows on
the eastern side of the township, forms part of the boundary of the
county. A. E. M. Mundy esq. D.L. J.P. is sole owner and lord of the
manor. His seat, Shipley Hall, is a mansion of stone, situated on
an eminence and surrounded by an extensive park containing three lakes.
The district abounds in coal of good quality, the collieries being
worked by the proprietor, and in direct communication with the Great
Northern, Midland and London and North Western railways and the Nutbrook
canal, which commences here. The land is principally pasture. The
acreage is 2,010 ; rateable value, £8,366 ; the population in
1881 was 724. POST OFFICE.-Mrs. Eliza Simms, receiver. Letters through Derby arrive at 7 a.m. ; dispatched at 7.10 p.m. week days only. The nearest money order office is at Marlpool & the telegraph office at the Midland railway station Shipley & Cotmanhay National School, established in 1842 by the late lord of the manor & rebuilt in 1859, for 205 boys, 193 girls & 160 infants ; average attendance, 180 boys, 140 girls & 130 infants ; William Waller Dodson, master ; Miss Mary Louisa Blacklock, mistress ; Miss Lydia Wheatley, infants' mistress RAILWAY STATIONS :- Shipley Gate (Midland), George Watkinson, station master Shipley (G.N.), station master Marshall Charles Stephen Mundy Alfred Edward Pollard Henry Smith Charles Sebastian COMMERCIAL. Adams George, farmer Beardsley George, farmer, Lodge farm Fletcher Alfred, farmer, Abbotsford Fletcher Joseph, farmer Glazebrook Wm. farmer, Lane End frm Hunt Samuel Fox, farmer, Owlsgrave Moore Thomas, assistant colliery mangr Morley William, farmer, Chapel hill Morris William R. gamekeeper to A. E. M. Mundy esq. D.L., J.P Noon Mary (Mrs.), Boat inn, & farmer Outram John, farmer, Purdy house Rooth John S. coal grinder, Shipley mls Sawyer Henry, shopkeeper Shipley Collieries (A. E. M. Mundy esq. proprietor ; C. S. Smith, agent; R. Robinson, managr. & H. Pollard, cashr) Smith Charles Sebastian, estate agent gamekeeper to A. E. M. Mundy esq Walker Philip, farmer Woolley George, farmer, Flat meadow [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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