CALKE, a small village and parish, 5 miles N. by E. from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, and 10 miles S. from Derby, contains 720 acres of fertile land, 11 houses and 79 inhabitants, of whom 32 are males and 47 females; rateable value £1,200. Sir John Harpur Crewe is lord of the manor, sole owner, impropriator, and patron of the church, St. Giles’s, a per­petual curacy valued at £34. Rev. Richardson Cox, M.A., incumbent. The Church is a neat structure, on a rising ground a little north from the abbey, it was built by Sir George Crewe, Bart., in 1826, it has an embattled tower and one bell, is neatly pewed and has an

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organ. There is a neat marble monument to Sir John and Lady Catharine Harpur. The Church yard is surrounded with fine elm trees on three sides. A convent of Augustine friars was formed here before 1161, and afterwards removed to Rependon. The Abbey is a large stone mansion situated in a valley surrounded by a well wooded park of about 300 acres, well stocked with fallow deer. The south front is very handsome, two flights of stone steps lead to the portico, the pediment of which is supported by four large stone columns. The stables and out-offices are very extensive. There are two entrance lodges in Ticknall parish from the Ashby road. It was built by Sir John Harpur, in the early part of the last century, and is now the seat of Sir John Harpur Crewe, Bart. The parish is joined to no Poor Law Union, as the noble owner undertakes to keep the poor from being chargeable. The poor inhabitants are eligible to the Hospital at Ticknall.

CHELLASTON, is a scattered village and parish, 4 miles S.E. by S. from Derby, con­tains several good houses, 816A. 0R. 39P. of rich strong clay freehold land, abounding in gypsum, and had in 1851, 113 houses, and 499 inhabitants, of whom 257 were males, and 242 females; rateable value £1,250 8s. 5d. The principal owners are Sir John Harpur Crewe, Bart., George Wooton, Esq., Robert Meakin, George Trussell, Mrs. Sarah Pym, Robert Thrutchley, Joseph Rose, T. B. Domelo, Ann Newton, Rev. Joseph Sikes, Henry Forman, Captain Manfull, Thomas Cooper, John Stevens, and many smaller owners. The Church, dedicated to St. Peter is an ancient stone edifice, with nave, chancel, south aisle and handsome pinnacled tower, with three bells and a good clock with two dials. The living is a perpetual curacy, value £80, in the patronage of the Bishop of Carlisle, and incumbency of the Rev. Joseph Deans. In 1841 the Church was repaired, and 125 free sittings were added; a new stone tower was erected at a cost of £600, raised by subscription, aided by grants from the Church Building and Diocesan Societies. In 1819 it was repewed at considerable expense, when a great number of alabaster slabs were destroyed. Here is an alabaster monument to Ralph Bancroft and Alice his wife, also one to Bawredon, minister of the Church, who died 1523, with memorials to the Whenyatts and others. Chellaston was parcel of the rectory at Melbourne, which belonged to the Bishops of Carlisle, and was for a considerable time on lease to the family of Coke, when it was enfranchised under an act of Parliament passed in 1704. Lord Melbourne, representative of the Coke family, sold the tithes to the several land owners. The parish was enclosed in 1802, when land was awarded to the curate in lieu of tithes. The Baptists, Wesleyan Methodists, and Reformers have places of worship here. Many of the inhabitants are employed in the gypsum mines, George Wooton, Esq., has extensive mines covering about 70 acres of ground; Robert Meakin & Co. and Joseph F. Rose have also extensive mines in the neighbourhood, about 2,500 tons are got annually, which is sent to all parts of the kingdom, and to the continent in large quantities. Here is an Odd Fellows lodge and a female benefit society. Feast is held on the Sunday before St. Peter. It is supposed that Robin Hood was born at the Manor house here.

CHARITIES.—Mr. Herrick, it is stated in the parliamentary returns of 1786, gave a rent charge of 13s. for bread to the poor of Chellaston, then vested in Thomas Brown. Mr. Thomas Brown Domalo was (1826), the owner, but we cannot obtain any further information as to this charity.

Post Office, at Thomas Bailey’s, Letters arrive from Derby at 5.45 a.m., and are despatched at 6.30 p.m.

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CHILCOTE is a well built pleasant village and chapelry, situate on a rock 6½ miles S.W. from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, forms a detached portion of the Repton and Gresley hundred, locally situated in Leicestershire, and is part of the parish of Clifton Campville, in the North Offlow hundred of Staffordshire. It contains 1,320 acres of fertile land, prin­cipally occupied in dairy farms, and in 1851 had 33 houses and 160 inhabitants, of whom 85 were males and 75 females; rateable value £1,920. E. W. Robertson, Esq., is lord of the manor and sole owner. The late F. Robertson, Esq. rebuilt the village, under the superintendence of J. R. Bennett, Esq., of Tutbury. The Chapel dedicated to St Matthew, is annexed to the rectory of Clifton Campville. John Henry Pye, Esq., of Clifton, patron, Rev. H. J. Pye, rector. The tithes were commuted in 1843 for £258. The Chapel is a neat structure, with a turret and one bell, and the windows are beautifully ornamented with stained glass. It was repewed, and the exterior cased, in 1842, by the late F. Robertson, Esq., at a cost of £350. The Hall, which was a seat of the Milwards, and afterwards of the Clarkes, has been taken down. Honey Hill is a neat brick farm residence, 1 mile S. from the village occupied by Mrs. S. Mousley. No Man’s Heath is 1½ miles S.E. from Chilcote, and 2 miles W. from Appleby. At this place the counties of Derby, Leicester, Warwick, and Stafford meet in a point so small that, it is said, a man may be in them all at the same time. The poor of this parish receive annually 10s. in clothing, and 10s. in coals, the gift of the lord of the manor, the farmers lead the coals free.

DIRECTORY.—Wm. Coulton, shopkeeper; Mrs. Sarah Mousley, Honey Hill; Harriet Mumford, schoolmistress; John Baker; Richard Faux; Thomas Goodale; and Richard Mousley are farmers.

CHURCH GRESLEY, parish, contains the townships of CHURCH GRESLEY, CASTLE GRESLEY, DONISTHORPE with OAKTHORPE, DRAKELOW, LINTON, and SWADLINCOTE, con­taining together 5510A. 3R. 33P. of land, and in 1851 had 660 houses, and 3,300 inhabi­tants, of whom 1,691 were males, and 1,609 females; rateable value £11,769 15s. 7d.

CHURCH GRESLEY, is a scattered village and township, on the Leicestershire border, 5 miles S.E. by S. form Burton-on-Trent, and 5 miles W. by N. from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, contains 1,075 acres of land, and in 1851 had 258 houses, and 1,257 inhabitants, of whom 655 were males, and 602 females; rateable value £2,890. The principal land owners are, the Marquis of Hastings, Lord Tynemouth, S. P. Wolverstone, Esq., and the Rev. Charles Williams, of Gedling, Nottinghamshire, who is also lord of the manor. The Church, dedicated to St. Mary and St. George, is an ancient stone edifice, with low tower and three

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bells, built in the reign of Henry I, by Nigel de Gresley, who founded here a priory of Austin monks, and dedicated it to St. Mary and. St. Peter. It was endowed with lands chiefly in this parish, valued at the dissolution at £39 13s. 8d. Of this building which joined the parish church, there are no remains. In 1842, a gallery was erected in the church, at a cost of £70, raised by subscription. Here are some ancient monuments to the Aleyne and Gresley families. The living is a perpetual curacy, valued in the King’s books at £5 16s. 8d., now £108, has been augmented with £200 benefactions, £800 Queen Anne’s bounty, and £1300 parliamentary grant. The Rev. George Wood Lloyd, D.D., patron and incumbent, for whom the Rev. George Lloyd, M.A., officiates. King Henry VIII. granted the site of the priory in 1543 to Henry Criche; in the year 1556, Sir Christopher Aleyne, Knight, purchased this estate, with the manor of Church Gresley, of the Seymours. It was afterwards in the Meynells, of whom it was purchased about the year 1775, by Sir Nigel Gresley, Bart. A National school for boys and girls was erected in 1818, and enlarged in 1824, at a cost of £300, paid by the late Edward Smith, Esq., of Burton-upon-Trent. Joseph Leedham left £10, the interest is applied to the use of the as school; about 130 attend. Here are extensive collieries and considerable potteries, which give employment to a large number of persons. The clay is of an excellent quality, and considerable quantities of it are sent to Sheffield and other places, for making casting pots for founders and steel refiners. The Primitive Methodists and the Latter-day Saints have chapels here, the former was erected in 1831, and rebuilt in 1850. The Hall, ¼ mile N.W. now a farm house is subject to a payment to the incumbent of the church of £5 13s 4d. The other scattered farms are the Cottage, ½ mile S.E., Earthcote, 1 mile N.W., Far Lees 1½ miles  N.W.; Park Farms, 1 mile S.W.; and Wood Farm, ¾ mile N.

CASTLE GRESLEY, a small village and township, 4 miles S.E. by S. from Burton-on-Trent, contains 570 acres of fertile land, 36 houses, and 190 inhabitants, of whom 102 are males, and 88 females; rateable value £1,034. The principal owners are Mr James Fredk. Hanson, Mr. Robt. Beard, Mr. Morris Piddock, Mr. Reginald Toby, and Mrs. Mary Wilson. The parsonage, a good residence, 1 mile west from the parish church, erected in 1837, in this township, at a cost of £1,200, was conveyed to the governors of Queen Anne’s bounty; by the present patron and incumbent, for the use of all future incumbents. The manor of Castle Gresley belonged from a very early period to the ancient family of De­Gresley, who had a castle at this place. The site is distinguished only by slight eminences and inequalities of the ground. Cadley Hill House, a neat brick residence, situated on an eminence, ½ mile N. from the village, is the residence and property of Mr. James Fredk. Hanson. The Midland Railway Co., Leicester and Burton Branch, has a small station here.

DONISTHORPE, is a considerable village, and joint township with Oakthorpe, partly in Measham parish, and partly in the parish of Seal, Leicestershire, 3½ miles S.W. from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, and 17 miles S.W. from Derby, contains 366A. 0R. 35P. of land, and as in 1851, had 92 houses, and 392 inhabitants, of whom 189 were males, and 203 females; rateable value £593 14s. The principal owners are Sir Mylles Cave Brown Cave, Bart., Sir Charles Abney Hastings, Bart., Rev. Sir Thomas Gresley, Charles S. Greaves Esq., Robert Choyce, Esq., and Mr. William Turner. A district Church, dedicated to St. John, was erected and endowed here in 1838, principally by the Misses Moor, aided by a grant from the Incorporated society, and a contribution from the Marquis of Hastings. It is for the joint township and a part of Ashby Wolds, Leicestershire. It is a neat stone edifice, with tower and one bell, and contains 480 sittings, of which 200 are free. The living is a perpetual curacy, value £140, in the patronage of the Bishop of Lichfield, and incumbency of the Rev. Francis Jickling. The parsonage is a neat brick residence, west of the church. The Primitive Methodists have a small neat brick chapel here. A National school was erected in 1840, at the sole expense of Lady Cave. In 1852, this school was converted into an infant school, and is supported principally by that lady, the children paying a small trifle weekly. The inhabitants are principally employed at the collieries and limeworks, on Ashby Wolds.

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DRAKELOW, is a township and scattered district, from 2 to 4 miles S.S.W from Burton-on-Trent, and the same distance N. by W. from Church Gresley. It contains the Hall, three farms, and 8 cottage houses, and had in 1851, 86 inhabitants, of whom 47 were males and 39 females; 1,287 acres of sandy land; rateable value £1,933. The Hall, a handsome stone mansion, pleasantly situated in a fine park of 120 acres, well stocked with deer, was erected by the late Sir Nigel Gresley, but is now the seat and property of Henry William des Vœux, Esq., who is the sole owner and lord of the manor. This manor in the Domesday book, is described as belonging to Nigel de Stafford, ancestor of the Gresley family, by the  ervice of rendering a bow, a quiver, and twelve arrows, which in 1200 was due to William Earl Ferrars. Geoffrey de Gresley in 1330 claimed the right of having a gallows at Gresley and at Drakelow. The Gresley family have at various times, from the reign of Edward I., represented the county in parliament. George Gresley was installed a knight of the bath at the coronation of Anne Boleyn, in 1534. His grandson, of the same name was created a baronet in 1611. Sir George Gresley was an active officer during the civil war, and was lieutenant-colonel to Sir John Gell.

LINTON, is a small scattered village and township, 5 miles E. S. E. from Burton-on-Trent, contains 859A. 3R. 33P. of fertile land, and in 1851, had 65 houses, and 279 inhabi­tants, of whom 138 were males, and 141 females; rateable value £1,620 18s. 6d. John Brown, Robert Beard, Wm. Burton, and Henry Clay, Esqrs., are the principal owners. The former is lord of the manor; there are also several small owners. The Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists have each places of worship here.

OAKTHORPE, a village, and joint township with Donisthorpe, situated in the parishes of Measham and Stretton-en-le-Field, 3 miles S.S.W. from Ashby-de-la-Zouch. The joint township contains 1,112 acres of land, and in 1851, had 241 houses and 983 inhabitants, of whom 477 were males, and 506 females; rateable value £1,458. This hamlet contains 745A. 3R. 5P. of land, and in 1851, had 149 houses, and 591 inhabitants, of whom 288 were males and 303 females; rateable value £864 6s. The principal owners are Sir Chas. Abney Hastings, Bart., John Peddocke, Esq., executors of the Marquis of Hastings, Edward Stevenson, Esq., and Repton school. Here is a National school for boys, girls and infants, with a house for the master. The Methodists and Primitive Methodists have each places of worship here. Here is a lodge of the ancient order of Druids. The tithes of the whole township were purchased in 1838, by Messrs. Browne and Kidge, of Astley, for about £800, from the executors of the late Thomas Elton, Esq.

SWADLINCOTE, is a large well built village and township, 4½ miles S.E. by E. from Burton-on-Trent, contains 607 acres of land, and in 1851, had 179 houses, and. 1007 inhabi­tants, of whom 514 were males, and 493 females; rateable value £2,833 17s. 1d. The principal owners are the executors of Court Granville, Esq., Thomas Francis, Esq., and the Earl of Chesterfield, with many otller small freeholdere. Here are collieries, and extensive potteries, for the manufacture of Rockingham and yellow ware, the largest of which is Messrs. Sharpe Brothers and Co., who are also patentees, and manufacturers of the improvements in the construction of closet pans. Here are also several extensive fire brick mauufactories, the largest of which is Mr. James Woodward’s. The Church, is a small neat stone edifice, erected in 1847 by subscription, at a cost of about £200. The is a perpetual curacy, value £50, in the patronage of the incumbent of Church Gresley, and the Rev. John B. Stevens, perpetual curate. A neat National school was erected near the church, in 1850. The Wesleyan Methodists have a small chapel here. The Swadlincote branch of the Midland Railway has a small station here, opened in 1849, where there are two trains each way daily for goods only.

CHARITIES.—John Adams, by will, 1682, gave 40s. a year, to be paid out of his lands in Gresley Park, to various places, but it does not appear any such payments were ever made. The greater part of these lands now belong to Miss Worthington, whose agent states that the testator was tenant in tail only, that the estate had become the subject of partition in

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1737 and in 1767. Under the circumstances above stated, it would be extremely difficult to substantiate a claim in behalf of the charity.

Gresley Township.—In the parliamentary returns of 1786 it is stated, that the sum of £10 then vested in Richard Smith, and producing 8s. per annum, had been given to the poor of Gresley, by some person unknown. In 1819 it was expended, with the addition of £1 advanced by the township, in the purchase of a piece of land called the Bottom Croft, containing 400 square yards or thereabouts. The land is let for 8s. a year, the overseer receives the rent and distributes it to the poor; at the time of our enquiry, August 1826, he had 16s. in hand, but it was proposed to distribute this sum, with another year’s rent which had not been paid, at Christmas.

Linton Township.—In the parliamentary returns of 1786, it is mentioned under the head of Gresley, a donation of £16 to the poor, then vested in Joseph and Thomas Wilkes, and producing 13s. per annum—donor unknown. This sum, which is supposed was given to this township, is now in the hands of Edward Smith, of Burton, the owner of an estate in this township, but it does not appear he has given any security for it. The sum of 16s. is paid as interest by the tenant amongst the poor of Linton, at his own discretion, not annually or at any fixed period. It appears desirable that Mt. Edward Smith should give acknowledgment for the money, and that the distribution should take place at stated periods and publicly. There was formerly a further sum of £10 for the poor, but it appears to have been lost by the solvency of a farmer in whose hands it was placed.

Swadincote Township.—Dorothy Taylor, in 1760, gave £10, the interest to be paid to the poor. The sum of £10 is in the hands of Mr. John Brown, who has given to the overseers a promissory note for the amount, and pays 10s. a year interest, which is distribu­ted at Christmas.

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CASTLE GRESLEY TOWNSHIP.

DRAKELOW TOWNSHIP.

LINTON TOWNSHIP.

DONISTHORPE TOWNSHIP.

Marked *  are in Leicestershire.

OAKTHORPE TOWNSHIP.

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SWADLINCOTE TOWNSHIP.

Post Office at John Cooke’s, letters arrive at 6.3 a.m., and are despatched at 5.30 p.m. there is also a receiving house at Wm. Baker’s, Midway.

CROXALL parish and township, with the township of Catton, together contain 3299A. 3R. 17P. of land, partly situated in the North Offlow Hundred of Staffordshire and in 1851 had 47 houses, and 234 inhabitants, of whom 120 were males, and 114 females; rateable value, £7069.

CROXALL township and small village, intermixed with the village of Edingale in Staf­fordshire, 8 miles S. by W. from Burton-upon-Trent, contains 2,154 acres of strong marl soil, fine wheat land, 30 houses and 137 inhabitants, in Derbyshire, and 6 houses, and 20 inhabitants in the village of Oakley in Staffordshire, with which it forms a joint township; rateable value, £4,779. The principal owners are the trustees of the late Thomas Levett Prinsep, Esq., Executors of the late John Pimm, Lady Horton, and the Hon. Mrs. Howard. The former are lords of the manor, and impropriators. The Church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is an ancient Gothic building, with low tower and one bell, covered with ivy, situated about 1 mile N.W. from the village; it was thoroughly restored and beautified, a handsome stained glass window put up at the east end of the chancel, and a new south porch was also added about 6 years ago at the expense of the vicar. The interior consists

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many ancient monuments to the Curzon and Horton families, of which two are particu­larly deserving of notice. One to the late Sir Robert Wilmot Horton, Bart., who died 31st May, 1841, and was interred in the family vault here. He represented the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyne in three successive parliaments, was under Secretary of state for the colonies seven years, and governor of Ceylon from 1831 to 1837. Another to the late Eusebius Horton, Esq., and Phœbe his wife, of Catton Hall; the former died April 18th, 1823, the latter 23rd May, 1814. The churchyard of Edingale, Staffordshire, is partly situated in Derbyshire. The living is a vicarage, valued in the King’s book at £5, now £520. The Crown is patron, and Rev. James Gisborne, M.A., incumbent. The living is endowed with the rectorial tithes of Oakley, which have been commuted for £194. Those of Croxall vicarial for £180. The Hall, now a farm house, forming three sides of a square, and originally surrounded with a moat, is an ancient brick building with pointed gables, situated a little W. of the church; it was formerly the residence of the Earls of Dorset, is now occupied by Mr. Samuel Ward. Here is a good day school supported principally by Lady Horton, and the Rev. James Gisborne.

OAKLEY, hamlet and village within the Staffordshire border, 1 mile W. from Croxall Church, contains about 770A. of land, tithe free. The Birmingham and Derby branch of the Midland railway passes for a mile through this hamlet, and Oakley station is about a quarter of a mile from Croxall church.

This manor, Crocheshalle, was at the Domesday survey held under Henry de Ferrars, by one Roger, ancestor probably of the Curzons, and it continued to be the property and seat of that ancient family till the reign of Charles I., when Mary, only daughter, and heiress of Sir George Curzon, brought it to Sir Edward Sackville, K.B., afterwards the fourth Earl of Dorset. This lady, who had been appointed by the king governess to some of his children, conducted herself in that situation with so much pru­dence, notwithstanding the earl was a zealous royalist, that a public funeral was voted for her by both Houses of parliament, and she was buried with great pomp at Westminster Abbey, on the 3rd of September, 1645. Tradition speaks of Dryden being a visitor to the Dorset family at Croxall. The manor was purchased of John Frederick, Duke of Dorset, by John Prinsep, Esq., well known as an agriculturist, particularly for his fine breed of cattle. After the death of his son, Thomas Prinsep, Esq., it devolved under his will to his nephew, Thomas Prinsep, the son of Theophilus Levett, Esq., of Wichnor, in Staffordshire.

CATTON, township and small scattered village on the Trent, 6½ miles S. from Burton-on-Trent, and 1½ N.W. from Croxall, contains 1145A. 3R. 17P. of strong good wheat land, 11 houses, and 77 inhabitants, of whom 40 were males, and 33 females; mteable value, £2,290. Lady Wilmot Horton is the owner, who pays all the tithe and rates. By the commutation of tithe, the rent charge to the vicar amounts to £91 15s., and the full value of the whole parish is £365. The Hall is a noble brick mansion, pleasantly situated in a fine park on the east bank of the Trent; it is the seat and property of Lady Wilmot Horton; also three other farms, in most pleasant situations, viz: the Catton farm and the Donkill Pitt farm, 2 miles N.W. from Croxall Church, and the Mansditch, a little more north. The late Eusebus Horton, Esq., was a lineal descendant of Roger Horton, Esq., who died seized of the manor in 1421.

CHARITIES.—Edmund Allson, it is stated in the returns of 1786, gave £5 to the poor, and Francis Horton, in 1785, gave £5 to the poor of Croxall and £5 to the poor of Catton in this parish, all of which sums are stated to have been vested in Eusebius Horton, Esq., and to have produced 15s. per annum. It does not appear that the interest of these sums was ever paid to the parish officers, and distributed as a permanent charity. It is stated, however, that the late E. Horton, Esq., occasionally gave away money to the poor of Croxall and Catton—in which, possibly the interest of these sums may have been included.

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CROXALL TOWNSHIP.

CATTON TOWNSHIP.

DERBY HILLS, an extra parochial liberty, 9 miles S. from Derby, and 1 mile B. from Ticknall, contains 310A. 2R. 19P, of clay land, 10 houses, and 42 inhabitants, of whom 24 were males, and 18 females; rateable value, £351 16s. 9d. Lady Palmerston is principal owner and lady of the manor. Sir John Harpur Crewe, Bart, owns 50 acres of land and two cottages in this liberty, which forms a part of Calke park. The resident farmers are, Henry Barrs, Derby Hills house; Richard Dexter, and Miss H. Tomlinson.

FOREMARK parish, contains the townships of Foremark and Ingleby, which together, contain 1991A. 1R. 8P. of land, and had in 1851, 45 houses, and 238 inhabi­tants, of whom 115 were males, and 123 females; rateable value, £2,901.

FOREMARK township, 6½ miles S.S.W. from Derby, contains 1135A. 1R. 15P. of land, principally red loam; the Hall, 3 farms and 6 cottages: and in 1851 had 89 inhabitants, of whom 47 were males, and 42 females; rateable value, £1574 10s. Sir Robt. Burdett, Bart, is owner, impropriator, and patron of the church, St. Saviour, a perpetual curacy valued at £31, augmented with £400 Queen Anne’s bounty, and £200 Parliamentary grant; Rev J. B. Stevens, incumbent. The Church, a small structure with nave, chancel, low tower and four bells, was erected in 1662, by Sir Francis Burdett, Bart., and in 1819 a gallery was erected at the west end. A handsome carved oak screen separates the nave and channel. Many of the Burdett family are interred here. The ancient church, which was an appendage to the priory of Repton, stood in Ingleby. The Hall is a large ancient stone mansion, 7 miles S.S.W. from Derby, the seat of Henry Clay, Esq., it was erected about the year 1762. Anchor Church, near the Trent, is a singular rocky bank, which presents the appearance of an edifice in ruins, and consists of five rooms, which tradition asserts to have been the abode of an anchorite, but some suppose it to have been a summer-house for the amusement of fishing

The manor, Fernewercke, at Domesday survey belonged to Nigel de Stafford. In the reign of Henry II. it was given by Robert de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, to Bertram de Verdon in marriage with one of his daughters. It was purchased of the Verdons before

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the year 1387, by Sir Robert Francis, who obtained a confirmation of free warren from the crown in 1397. The heiress of Francis married Thomas Burdett, Esq., of Bramcote, in Warwickshire, who was created a Baronet in 1618.

INGLEBY, a township and small scattered village, situated at the foot of a sandy cliff, on the south bank, and overlooking the vale of the Trent, 7 miles south from Derby, contains 855A. 3R. 33P. of sandy land, including 98A. of woods, 27 houses, and 149 inhabitants, of whom 68 were males and 81 females; rateable value, £1,326 10s. Sir Robert Burdett is sole owner. Ingleby Hill House, a neat modern mansion, on a lofty eminence 7½ miles S.W. from Derby, is the seat of Sampson Massey, jun., Esq. In the village is a remarkable Elm tree, said to be upwards of 600 years old, but is now fast de­caying. Feast, Sunday before old Michaelmas day.

CHARITIES.—Mary Burdett, by will, in 1697, desired that her executor, Sir Robert Burdett, and his heirs, should dispose of £10 yearly until he or they should lay out the sum of £200, so that the interest or profit thereof might yearly be disposed of to the poor of Foremark, Ingleby, Milton or Repton, or any of them, in clothing poor women, dis­tributing bread on Sundays, schooling of girls, buying Bibles, and Common Prayer Books, or in such other way as they should think to be the greatest charity.

Dorothy Burdett, in 1717, desired that her brothers, and, after their decease, that her kinsman, Sir Robert Burdett, and his heirs, should dispose of £10 yearly out of the rents of Hogs Hill farm, until he or they should lay out the sum of £200, so that the yearly interest or profit thereof might be laid out or disposed of to the poor of Foremark, Ingleby, Repton, Milton (a hamlet in Repton), and Ticknall. The above sums have never been laid out in pursuance of the above will. Sir Francis Burdett, is the owner of Hogs Hill farm, and under the direction of his agent a quantity of beef and clothing, to a much greater amount than the interest, is pro­vided annually at Christmas, and the poor of the several places interested with the respective overseers, attend at Foremark Hall, where the meat and clothing are distributed.

FOREMARK TOWNSHIP.

INGLEBY TOWNSHIP.