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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Willesley, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.326 |
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WILLESLEY is a township and parish on the south-east border
of the county, 1½ miles south-west from Ashby-de-la-Zouch,
9 south-east from Burton-upon-Trent and 15 west from Derby, in the
Southern division of the county, hundred of Repton and Gresley, Swadlincote
petty sessional division, Ashby-de-la-Zouch union and county court
district, rural deanery of Repton, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese
of Southwell. The church of St. Thomas, beautifully situated close
to the Hall, is a building of stone dating generally from the first
half of the 14 century, and consisting of chancel, nave and an embattled
western tower with pinnacles, built in 1845 and containing 2 small
bells without date: there are some interesting monuments to the Hastings
and Abney families, including, on the floor of the chancel, two alabaster
slabs, with figures and inscriptions much worn, to John Abney and
Maria his wife (1505), and to George Abney and Ellen his wife (1571)
: on the floor of the nave is another alabaster slab with inscription
to Sir John Wylkins, priest; and there is also a fine altar tomb of
black and white marble to Sir Charles Hastings bart. d. 30
Sept. 1823: in the chancel windows are some fragments of old glass
and modern heraldic glass of the Hastings family: the church was reseated
in the year 1883 at the sole expense of the Earl of Loudoun, and a
handsome pulpit and prayer desk placed in it: there are 100 sittings.
The register dates from 1677 and contains also a list of moneys collected
by Brief from 1669 to 1707. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly
value £73, in the gift of the Earl of Loudoun, and held since
1866 by the Rev. John Denton M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge,
and surrogate, who is also vicar of and resides at Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
The Earl of Loudoun is lord of the manor and sole landowner, and has
a red-brick mansion here, called Willesley Hall, standing in a magnificently-wooded
park of about 155 acres. The soil is heavy; subsoil, yellow clay.
The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The acreage is 910 ; rateable
value, £1;066 ; the population in 1881 was 57. Parish Clerk, William Belcher Letters through Ashby-de-la-Zouch, which is the nearest post, money order & telegraph office, arrive at 7 a.m The children of this parish attend the schools at Moira, Measham & Packington Loudoun Earl of D.L., J.P. Willesley hall & Carlton, White's Marlborough, Bachelor & Orleans clubs, London Moseley George, bailiff to the Earl of Loudoun, wood farm Thompson Edward, farmer, Hill farm Smedley Richard, head keeper to the Earl of Loudoun [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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