KIRK HALLAM, parish, contains the townships of Kirk Hallam in this Hundred, and Mapperley in the Hundred of Appletree, 1706A. 2R. 25P. of land, mostly a strong soil, and in 1851 had 95 houses and 473 inhabitants, of whom 239 were males and 234 females; rateable value £2607 12s. 1d.

KIRK HALLAM, a township and small picturesque village, 8¾ miles E.N.E. from Derby, and 1 mile S. by W. from Ilkeston station, contains 734A. 0R. 12P. of land, of which 29A. 3R. 11P. are in plantations; rateable value £1055 2s. 1d., and in 1851 had 19 houses and 114 inhabitants, of whom 58 were males and 56 females. Francis Newdigate, Esq., is lord of the manor, principal owner, and patron of the living. The Church, All Saints, is a vicarage, valued in the King’s books at £4 9s. 7d., now £313. It has been endowed with £600 Queen Anne’s bounty invested in land. The Rev. Alfred Newdigate, M.A., incumbent. It is a small structure with nave, chancel, low embattled tower, and 3 bells. It was re­paired in 1844, and new roofed in 1848. The value of the tithe is £140, with 18A. 3R. of glebe in Chilwell, Nottinghamshire, and 9A. 25P. in Sandiacre, 40s. is also paid by Her Majesty’s receiver of fee farm rents, to the vicar. The Nutbrook canal passes near the village, and occupies 4A. 3R. 16P. of land, and Lord Belper is a small owner. Feast, first Sunday after All Hallows day. The manor of Kirk Hallam, at the Domesday survey, belonged to Ralph de Burun. It was in the Greys of Codnor in the reign of Edward I. The large estate of the Leake family, with the impropriate rectory and advowson of church, which had belonged to Dale Abbey, and granted to Francis Leake, Esq., in 1562, were sold after the death of Nicholas Leake, to the Earl of Scarsdale in 1736, since which they have been in the Newdigate family. In 1762, Fras. Newdigate, Esq., of Nottingham, bequeathed it to his nephew Francis Parker, Esq., who took the name of Newdigate.

MAPPERLEY, a township and small village in the Appletree Hundred, 7½ miles N.E. from Derby, and 2 miles N. W. from Ilkeston station, contains 972A. 2R. 13P. of land, mostly a strong cold clay, 76 houses and 359 inhabitants, of whom 181 were males and 178 females; rateable value £1552 10s. A M. Mundy, Esq., W. D. Lowe, Esq., and Mr. John Fletcher are the principal owners, the former is lord of the manor. The Nutbrook canal crosses the eastern side of the township, and occupies 20A. 1R. 20P. of land, and 4A. 2R. 4P. belongs to Risley school. Francis Newdigate Esq., is a small owner and impropriator of the great tithe, commuted for £84, and the vicarial for £130 per annum. A Chapel of Ease dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was erected in 1851, at a cost of about £750, towards which the patron gave £100 and the bricks, the lord of the manor £50 and the site, W. D. Lowe, Esq., £50 and the stone, and the Rev. Chas. J. Newdigate, £50 and the communion plate. It is a neat edifice in the early English style, with nave, chancel, porch, and turret with 2 bells, has 164 sittings all free. The Methodists have a small chapel. In 1791, Henry

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Leaper left £6 a year for the support of a Sunday school, established 1792; but it has not been paid for the last 30 years. Feast Sunday after November 13th. The Manor House, an ancient half-timbered building with gables, now in three tenements, near which formerly was a bowling green, taken up about 20 years ago. Park Hall, a small hamlet half a mile N.W. from the village, near which, in a wood of about 7 acres, is a moated site, on which formerly stood a large mansion, of which nothing remains. At the Domesday survey, Wm. Peverel held Mapperley for the king. Richard Sandiacre held this manor in 1235, for the service of providing a dog kennel. In the year 1266, a market on Mondays, and a fair at the festival of the Holy Trinity, were granted to Simon de Arden, in which he was suc­ceeded by Thomas de Luche. Sir Richard Willoughby, the judge, acquired this manor by marriage with the heiress of Morteyne, and had a large park at Mapperley. Afterwards it belonged to the Gilberts of Locko. Sir Anthony Strelley who died seized of Park Hall, in Kirk Hallam, in 1691, which has since passed with Shipley to the Mundy family.

CHARTIES.—Francis Gisborne’s Charity.—(See Bradley).—The annual sum of £5 10s is received by the vicar of this parish, and laid out in the purchase of flannel or coarse cloth and distributed alternately to the poor of Kirk Hallam and Mapperley.

Richardson’s Charity.—(See Smalley.)—This township is one of those entitled to the benefit of this charity, in case there should not be 10 poor colliers in Smalley. At present a quarterly pension of 14s. is paid to two.

Henry Leaper, in 1791, gave £100 upon trust, that in case a Sunday school should be established at Mapperley, within two years after his decease, the yearly proceeds of the said sum should be applied in support of such school; if not established, or discontinued, then it should be considered as part of the residue of his personal estate. The legacy remained with Mr. Cater and his widow, who died 1825. At the time of our investigation, Mr. Edward Fox, of Derby, had undertaken to pay the above-mentioned sum when Mrs. Cater’s property was disposed of, and it was to be placed on good security for the support of a Sunday school, the master of which to receive £6 per annum for instructing poor children.

West Hallam School.—The inhabitants of Mapperley are now entitled to send 11 children to the school, founded by the Rev. John Scargill. (See West Hallam.)

 

KIRK HALLAM TOWNSHIP.

 

Buxton Henry, colliery agent Newdigate Rev. Alfred, M.A., vicar

Rice Samuel, parish clerk Winfield Charles, wheelwright

 

Farmers. Blunstone William,   Ladywood

Brown John, Thacker   Barn

Evans Ann, Fields Evans Thomas

Hardy John Parkin Robert

 

MAPPERLEY TOWNSHIP.

 

Clarke Miss Charlotte Else William, butcher Fletcher Mrs. Hannah, Brook Hardy William, beerhouse Harvey John, beerhouse and shoe maker,   Park Hall Harvey Thomas, joiner Johnson Josiah, colliery agent Martin Francis, corn miller and assessor of   property tax

Moon George, shopkeeper and shoe maker Oldershaw John, bricklayer Trueman Elijah, wheelwright, joiner, and   builder Trueman Thomas, wheelwright Wain Thos., vict. and maltster, Black Horse Walters Joseph, shopkeeper

 

Farmers. Bardell Robert, Park   Hall

Else Joseph Fletcher John, Head   House

Green John Pegg Richard, Park   Hall

Potter Isaac, Park   Hall Spendlove Anthony,   Park hall

 

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KIRK LANGLEY is a considerable but scattered village and parish, in which are several good houses, situated on the Derby and Ashbourn road, 4½ miles N.W. from Derby, it contains together with MEYNELL LANGLEY hamlet, 2,441A. 1R. 32P. of land, and in 1851 had 130 houses, and 657 inhabitants, of whom 340 were males and 317 females; rateable value £2,788 16s. 0d. Godfrey Franceys Meynell, Esq., (now a minor) is lord of the manor, and also a small owner, E. S. C. Pole, Esq., T. G. Copestake, Esq., Thos. Peach, Esq., M.D., the Rev. Philip Gell, Mr. James Brough, W. Cox, Esq., Mr. John Brough, John Morley, and Thomas Campión are the principal owners. The Church, dedicated to St. Michael, is an ancient structure, with nave, chancel, side aisles, and low embattled tower in which there are three bells. In the east window a small portion of stained glass remains. In 1824, the late patron erected a new vestry, and in 1840, the church was thoroughly repaired, re-pewed, and a gallery erected on the south aide, at a cost of £600. at the same time the remains of an ancient chapel were discovered, and some tesselated bricks on the north side. A new organ was placed at the east end of the south aisle, at a cost of about £70, in June, 1854; the money was raised by subscription. In the church are several neat monuments to various rectors, of which the last is to the Rev. Edward S. Wilmot. There also several to the Meynell family, one of which, a handsome marble tablet, was erected in 1855, by the Officers of the 75th regiment, to the memory of their brother officer, the late Lieut. Wm. Meynell, who was killed at Guergivo, on the Danube, on the 7th day of July, 1854, he was 28 years of age; also a very neat tablet to the memory of John Meynell, Esq., of Tapton, in this county, who was suddenly deprived of life by a collision in the Clay-cross tunnel, on the Midland railway, May 29th, 1851, aged 44 years. The living is a rectory valued in the King’s book at £12 2s. 1d., now £318; Godfrey Franceys Meynell, Esq., (now a minor) is the patron, and the Rev. Henry James Feilden, M.A., rector. The Rectory is a good residence, a little N. of the church. The tithes were commuted in 1842 for £213. The rector has 90 acres of glebe, a con­siderable portion of which was awarded to him at the enclosure of Meynell Langley, in lieu of tithes. The commons were enclosed in 1834, by an act then obtained. In 1845, the rector erected a large school room, to be used as a day and Sunday school, since which, a house for the master has been added; about 80 scholars attend, who pay from 3d. to 6d. per week each, except twelve poor children who are taught free in consideration of land amounting to 3A. 2R. 21P., which is let for £12 per annum. An infant school was established in 1849, which is attended by about 40 children, who pay 1d. each, per week. The Primitive Methodists have a small chapel here, erected in 1832. Brun House, a good substantial building, 1 mile S.E. of the village, is the residence of Mr. John Aulton, and property of Thos. Goodall Copestake, Esq.

MEYNELL LANGLEY, a small but straggling hamlet, consisting of a few houses prin­cipally built of brick, with blue tiles, and forming the east side of the parish. The Flagshaw, a small brook, separates it from Kirk Langley. It contains 1,146A. 3R. 16P. of land, of the rateable value of £1,324 10s. 4d. Godfrey Franceys Meynell, Esq., is lord of the manor and principal owner. The school land mentioned above, is situated in this hamlet. Langley Park, a handsome stone mansion, 1 mile E.N.E. from the village, situated in a well-wooded park of about 60 acres, and commanding a fine view of Derby; it is the seat of Godfrey Meynell, Esq. The manor of Langley Meynell took its name from an ancient family who possessed it as early as the reign of Edward III.; from them it passed by successive female heirs to the families of Basset and Cavendish. William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, sold it in the year 1669, to Isaac Meynell, citizen of London, who left an only daughter and heir, whose second husband, Robert Cecil a younger brother of James, Earl of Salisbury, sold Church Langley and Meynell Langley to Godfrey Meynell, Esq., another branch of the family. Mr. Meynell having no issue, he bequeathed the estate to his cousins, and the manor and estate was divided; of which the shares in the manor were all sold to the late Godfrey Meynell, Esq.

CHARITIES.—Rev. John Bailey and Isabella, his wife, in 1750, erected a school house

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at Langley; and in 1763, left a rent charge of £5 yearly, out of a messuage and lands at Boylstone, for teaching poor children of the parish. Frances Bayley, in 1768, for a nominal consideration, sold to certain trustees a close called the Upper Cunnery, for teaching two poor children at the school; and if the said close, 3½ acres, with the annuity, should exceed £10 a year, the surplus to be used in repairing or altering the school. The schoolmaster occupies the land, at the value of £6 16s., and receives the rent charge, £5, allowing to the rector £1 for repairs, and he appoints 12 children to be taught free.

Hough’s Charity.—(See Dalbury.)—In respect of which, £1 a year. has been hitherto paid for the poor of this parish, and given amongst 20 of the poorest persons.

Rev. Mr. Bailey gave the interest of £10, to be paid on the four sacrament days, agreeable to the will of the donor. This has been in the hands of the Cheney family, and 5 per cent for many years paid; but the son of the late General Robert Cheney has sold his estate in this pariah., so that it is desirable that the money should be called in, or a fresh security given.

Mrs. Cheney, in 1821, placed the sum of £20 in the savings’ bank, at Derby, under the name of “the poor of Langley, by Mrs. Cheney,” and directed the interest to be paid to the minister for the time being, for the use of the poor who should attend the sacra­ment. Owing to some inadvertence, this sum has never been demanded, so that there is now (1826) £25 in the savings’ bank.

 

KIRK LANGLEY TOWNSHIP.

 

Post Office, at John Hodgkinson’s. Letters arrive from Derby at 4 30 a.m., and are despatched at 8 0 p.m., and 6 0 a.m, to Radbourn, Dalbury, &c.

 

Allcock Edw., baker & flour dealer, Common Ault Thomas, shoemaker Bacon Thomas, tailor Barton Rev. John Boam Jph., sawyer Bown John, wheelwright Bull George shoemaker Cooper Danl., shoemaker Copestake Thomas Goodall, Esq. Dawes Charlotte, infant school Feilden Rev. H. J., M.A., rector

Gibson H. & A., schoolmaster and mistress Hodgkinson John, shopkeeper Kirkland Henry, beerhouse Lee Eliz., blacksmith Needle Mr. George Pedley Wm. butcher Ridgard Wm., butcher Starbuck Eliz., vict., Nag’s Head Taylor Thos., beerhouse Vernon Cornelius, builder Wilson Mrs. Mary

 

Farmers. Aulton J., Brun House Bowley John Brough James, Old   Pastures Farm Brough John, Nether   Burrows

Brough Mrs. Mary Brough Mary Nether   Burrows Brough Wm., Langley   Green Campion Thomas Handford Elizabeth

Holden John, Ridding   Closes Jerram George Morley John, Petty   Closes Morley Mary, Burrows    Osborne Alfd., Snapes   Farm

Poyser John Spencer William Thompson Samuel, (&   butcher) Whittingham Thos.,   Sandy lane Whittingham Wm.,   Langley Green

 

MEYNELL LANGLEY HAMLET.

 

Cockerham Thos. cowkeeper Meynell Godfrey, Esq., Langley Park

Peach Thos., Esq., M.D., Old Hall Pickering Wm., joiner

 

Farmers. Bailey William, Buck   Hazles

Goodwin William Handford Elizabeth Hanson John, Lodge

Farm Hodgkinson Joseph,   HilI Top

Spalton Thos., New   Park

 

MACKWORTH parish, contains the townships of Mackworth and Markeaton, which together contain 3246A. 2R. 4P. of strong land, principally grazing, and had in 1851, 98 houses and 510 inhabitants, of whom 256 were males, and 254 females; rateable value, £5601 5s. 0d.

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MACKWORTH, is a township and scattered village, with a few modern houses on the Derby and Ashbourn road, 4 miles W.N.W. from Derby. It contains 1344A. 0R. 4P. of land, and in 1851, had 57 houses, and 306 inhabitants, of whom 158 were males, and 148 females; rateable value, £2170 5s. 0d. Wm. Mundy, Esq., M.P. is lord of the manor and principal owner. Lord Scarsdale, Godfrey F. Meynell, Esq., (a minor), and E. S. C. Pole, Esq., are also owners. A Court-leet is held occasionally at the Mundy Arms. The Church, dedicated to All Saints, is an ancient edifice, partly in the decorated style, with a nave, chancel, and fine tower, with an octagonal spire, and three bells. In the church are two marble tablets, to Wm. Forrester, of Broadfield, Herts, and Ann his wife, with several others. The living is a vicarage, valued in the King’s book at £9 3s., now £161, has been endowed with £200 Queen Anne’s bounty. Wm. Mundy, Esq., M.P., is the patron, and the Rev. Geo. Pickering, B.A., incumbent, who resides at the vicarage, a neat house near the church. In 1835, the patron erected a school room, which is available for both the townships; all classes are eligible on payment of 3d. per week to the master, who also receives £9 per annum from Mr. Mundy; about 40 attend. The schoolmaster has also £5 per annum, for teaching a Sunday school. An Odd Fellows’ lodge (Manches­ter Unity), is held at the Mundy Arms, and consists of about 80 members. The open lands of both townships (amounting to 2440A.), were enclosed in 1763. Mackworth in Domesday book, is called Machenorde, and is a place of some antiquity. The manor, in the time of Henry VI. belonged to a family of the name of Mackworth, one of whom in the third or fourth years of that King’s reign, represented the county of Derby in parlia­ment. Here was formerly a castle; anciently the seat of the De Mackworth’s; the only portion of it now visible is the Southgate; the time of its erection is uncertain, but the site is now the property of Lord Scarsdale: in the fourth of Phillip and Mary, it was held under the Crown, in the same manner as the honour of Tutbury, by socage and fealty, according to tradition, it was demolished during the civil wars, between Charles I. and the parliament, and some high ground in the neighbourhood, is still called Cannon Hills, because it is said that ordnance were planted there when the castle was destroyed. The manor of Mackworth has always been held with that of Markeaton.

MARKEATON, a scattered township and small ancient village, in which are several good houses, one mile and three-quarters W.N.W. from Derby, contains 1902A. 2R. of rich land, and in 1851 had 41 houses, and 204 inhabitants, of whom 98 were males, and 106 females; rateable value, £3,431, William Mundy, Esq., M.P., is lord of the manor and principal owner. Lord Scarsdale, Miss E. Trowell, and T. W. Evans, Esq., are also owners, and the corporation of Derby have 118 acres. In 1826 the late Mrs. Muudy established a free school here for girls of both townships; it is now used for both sexes, who pay 3d. per week, each; about 50 attend. The Hall, which was erected about the year 1750, is a large brick mansion, with a spacious park in front, is the seat of Wm. Mundy, Esq., M.P. The Old Hall, was of wood and plaster. A neat Gothic lodge and handsome iron entrance gate were erected in 1844, on the Derby and Ashbourn road. Thornhill, the seat and property of Miss E. Trowell, is a neat modern residence, commanding a fine view of Derby, from which it is distant one and a half miles W. by S.

This manor, Marchetone, is described in Domesday book as having been the property of Siward, and then held by Gozelin, under Hugh Lupus Earl of Chester. In the year 1251, Thomas, son of Robert Tusehet, had a charter of free warren here. They also claimed a park and a gallows for the execution of criminals in 1330. About the year 1516 John Tuchet, Lord Audley, sold the manors of Markeaton and Mackworth to John Mundy, citizen of London, from whom they have descended to the present possessor. The late Francis Noel Clarke Mundy, Esq, was for many years the much respected chairman of the quarter sessions at Derby, and author of the admirable poems of  “Needwood Forest,” and the “Fall of Needwood.”

CHARITIES.—Richard Croshaw’s Charity.—(See Derby).—In consideration of a

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legacy, the corporation pay £28 yearly for a weekly distribution amongst eight poor inhabitants of Markeaton and Mackworth in bread and money. Eight tenpenny loaves are sent every Sunday to the church at Mackworth; eight sixpences are also sent weekly, and distributed to four poor persons of each place. The residue, 5s. 4d., is paid to the parish clerk.

In respect of the same donor’s gift of £100 for loans to poor householders and trades­men of Markeaton and Mackworth,—(See Derby.)

Munday’s Charity.—(See Radbourn).—The annual sum of £2 8s. is received from the minister of Quarndon by the incumbent of the parish, who retains 4s. for himself, and pays 2s. a-piece to the respective churchwardens of Markeaton and Mackworth, and the remaining 40s. are distributed to the poor of the said places on St. Thomas’s day.

Peter Hough’s Charity.—(See Dalbury).—The sum of £1 10s. received from Edwd. Cooper of Ashbourn, is distributed, with others, on St. Thomas’s day.

Henry Stanley, in 1715, gave for the use of the poor of Markeaton and Mackworth, £100 to be applied as his trustees should appoint. Much suit had arisen by Hester Stanley, the testator’s daughter, concerning the said will, whereby the estate was greatly diminished. Only £73 could be gotten. The trustees agreed that £52 2s. should be applied for the poor of Markeaton as their share of the legacy, and that £30 should be applied to the poor of Mackworth. The said £52 2s. was laid out in pur­chasing two closes in 1724. John Bennett, the last surviving trustee, purchased, in 1762, 2A. 36P., of land in Garrowsitch Furlong for £40, for the use of the poor of Mackworth. The two closes belonging to Markeaton now form one field, let for £5 per annum, which is received by the churchwarden. The Mackworth land now form one field called the Poor’s Land, let for £6 6s. per annum, and is distributed on St. Thomas’s day.

Pole’s Charity.—(See Radbourn,) where it is fully described.

 

MACKWORTH TOWNSHIP.

 

   Post Office, at John Roome’s. Letters arrive from Derby, at 4.20 A.M.; and are despatched at 8.15 P.M.

Cook John, vict, Mundy’s Arms Ducker, Rev. John, M.A., curate Fielden Miss Elizabeth Johnson Joseph, tailor Maddocks Richard, jun., shoemaker Maddocks William, shoemaker

Pickering, Rev. George, B.A., Vicarage Roome John, joiner, and shopkeeper Roome William, parish clerk Russell Thonmas, M.A., boarding school Stevens Henry Isaac, architect

 

Farmers. Mkd. * are Cottagers. Beeston James & Wm. Cockeram Francis Cook John

Flower Henry,   Wheathill Goodall Philip, (and   wheelwright) Goodall Samuel

Goodall William Hanson Samuel Maddocks Charles * Maddocks John * Maddocks Richard,

Smith Thomas Spalton John, Bow-   bridge Tomlisson George,   Field

 

MARKEATON TOWNSHIP.

 

Mundy William, Esq., M.P., The Hall Brown William, house steward, Thornhill Johnson Mary, schoolmistress Tomlinson & Harpur, brickmakers

Roper John Crask, farm steward Trowell Miss Elizabeth, Thornhill Wallis German Henry, blacksmith

 

Farmers. Allen John Bennett James Bennett Joseph

Brown John Bryer George, Park   farm Bryer John, Vicar   Wood

Finney Charles,   Humbleton Pegg John, Hill farm Potter Benjamin Poyser Samuel, Row-   ditch

Richardson John,   Thornhill Thornton George Webster George

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MICKLEOVER PARISH contains the township of Mickleover, and the townships and chapeiries of Findern and Littleover, with the hamlet of Potlock, which together contain 5,481A. 1R. 25P. of land, and in 1851, had 372 houses, and 1,809 inhabitants, of whom 912 were males, and 897 females; rateable value £9,382 11s. 11½d.

MICKLEOVER is a large and well-built village and township, 3 miles W.S.W. from Derby. It contains 2,361 acres of land, including the common, (800 acres), which was enclosed in 1790, and in 1851, had 162 houses, and 791 inhabitants, of whom, 400 were males, mind 391 females rateable value, £4,466 14s. 0d. Charles E. Newton, Esq. is lord of the manor; Edward S. C. Pole, Esq., Rev. Joseph Sikes, (of Newark), Cockshutt Heathcote, Esq., Sir Hugh Seymour Blane, Baronet, Mr. G. Wade, and Moses Harvey, Esq., are owners. The Church, which is dedicated to All Saints, was appropriated to Burton Abbey by William the Conqueror; it is a neat stone edifice, situated on an eminence, and has nave, chancel, side aisles, low embattled tower, and three bells. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £9 11s. 5½d., now £510, has been endowed with one-third of the rectorial tithes. The Executors of the late Lady Scarsdale, are patrons, and the Hon. and Rev. Frederick E. Curzon, B.A., is the incumbent. The Vicarage, situated a little N. of the church, is a large and neat modern mansion, the vicar has about 300 acres of glebe and allotments in lieu of tithe. The impropriate tithe which was commuted in 1842, for £158 15s., belongs to Mrs. Chapman of Neesham Hill, Durham. The Wesleyan Methodists hare a small chapel here, built in 1820, which will give accommodation to about 200 pursons. The Primitive Methodists erected a small neat brick chapel in 1852, at a cost of about £100. It will seat about 100 persons. In 1852, a National school was erected for boys and girls, by Mrs. Newton of the Leylands, Derby, it is a neat brick building, and will accommodate about 100 children; the average attendance is about 80, nine of which are educated free, in consideration of £9, the interest of the £200 left by Robert Newton, Esq. The Manor House, the ancient seat of the Newtons, is a large handsome brick mansion, situated close to the church, and contains upwards of 70 windows, it is now the residence of Chas. E. Newton, Esq. The Cedars, an ancient house in the Elizabethan style of architecture, on the entrance porch is Nisi Deus Frustra, 1648. It is supposed to have been built by a Captain in Cromwell’s army, Mr. William Harvey is the present occupier. Mickleover House, the seat and property of Moses Harvey, Esq., is a neat residence, having beautiful pleasure grounds attached, from which may be had extensive views into the Counties of Leicester and Stafford. The Limes, a handsome modern mansion, commanding some fine views, is the residence and property of Mrs. Amelia Wright. The Pastures, situated a short distance from the Derby and Burton road, 3 miles S.W. from Derby. It is a large handsome mansion, erected about 30 years ago, the seat and property of Sir Hugh Seymour Blane Bart. The Feast is held Sunday after December 6th. The manor of Mickleover was given with Findern, Littleover, and Potlock, by William the Conqueror, to Burton Abbey. King Henry VIII. granted them to William Pigot, in 1648. Sir Edward Wilmot purchased two shares of them, the remaining part was sold the same year, by the heiress of Sir William Withepol, who married the elder of Sir William Read’s granddaughters, to Sir John Curzon, which was purchased by John Leaper Newton, Esq. The Derbyshire Lunatic Asylum is situated in this parish, for which see History of Derby, page 80.

FINDERN, township, chapelry, and pleasant village, 5 miles S.W. by S. from Derby extends round a green of about 1 rood. The parishioners attend a court leet at Litchurch held by the crown. It contains 1,628A. 2R. 22P. of land, 89 houses and 467 inhabitants, of whom 248 were males and 219 females; rateable value £3711 5s. 11½d. Sir J. H. Crewe, Bart., Rev. F. W. Spilsbury, Robert Erpe, and John Drury are owners. The parish is intersected by the Trent and Mersey canal, and the Birmingham and Derby Railway. The Chapel, dedicated to All Saints, is an ancient structure, with a low wooden turret and two bells. It was new pewed in 1796. It is a chapel of ease to Mickleover. The Rev. Geo. Fritche is the curate. About 60 acres of glebe belong to the vicar. The

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Wesleyan Methodists have a neat chapel, erected in 1835; and the Unitarians an ancient brick chapel, with pointed gables. It is said traditionally that this place belonged to Lord Findern, in the time of Richard III., and was confiscated after the battle of Bosworth Field. There are about twelve velvet and silk looms here. Feast Sunday after Nov. 5th.

     POTLOCK, an estate and manor in Findern township, which contains abommt 350 acres of land and 2 houses, which are all included in the Findern return. Sir J. H. Crewe, Bart, is the owner. Here was anciently a chapel, dedicated to St. Leonard, of which there are now no remains, though portions of the foundations are continually being dug up. John de Toke or Touke, whose family resided here for several generations, gave 14 acres of meadow, and 60s. rent to the support of this chapel. The old mansion was taken down about 50 years ago, by the late Mr. Glover, who erected the present farm houses. Potlock House is a large white cemented building, 6 miles W. of Derby, the residence of Mr. John Jowett Clover.

LITTLEOVER, township, chapelry, and long straggling village, 2 miles S.W. by S. from Derby, contain 1491A. 3R. 3P. of strong marl land, and in 1851 had 121 houses and 551 inhabitants, of whom 264 were males and 287 females; rateable value £1204 12s. E. S. C. Pole, Esq., Cockshutt Heathcote, Esq., John Harrison, Esq., Sir Hugh Seymour Blanc, Bart., Mr. Joseph Middleton, (of Horsley) Wm. Wilson, and Thomas Lowe are owners, the former is lord of the manor. The Chapel, is a small ancient edifice, with nave, chancel, turret, and 1 bell. It is about to be thorougly repaired and repewed, and to have a north aisle added, by which means 73 additional sittings will be obtained for the poor. In the chapel is a handsome monument to Sir Richard Harpur, also a neat tablet to the mnemory of Elizabeth, the wife of Cockshutt Heathcote, Esq. It is a chapel of ease to Mickleover, the Rev. Geo. Fritche, curate. The vicar has 74A. 2R. 1P. of glebe and a portion of the hay tithe, commuted for £20. The Old Hall, now a farm house, stands on an elavation at the west end of the village. It is a large brick building embowered with trees, the property of C. Heath­cote, Esq., and residence of Mr. T. Topham. Fairfield House, on the Derby and Burton road, 1¼ miles S.W. by S. from Derby, is a large handsome mansion, the residence of John Tempest Morley, Esq., near which is Littleover House a large and commodious mansion the residence of James Allport, Esq. In 1845 a National school was erected for boys and girls, with a house for the master; it is a neat small brick building, and will hold about 100 children, the cost was about £120, raised by subscriptions, aided by a grant from government of £70, about 70 attend. The Wesleyan Methodists and Baptists have each a place of worship here. The Feast is he