Pigot & Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835
“Ashover and neighbourhood”
Transcriptions by Rosemary Lockie, © Copyright 1996 ASHOVER is a village, in the parish of its name, partly in the hundred of Wirksworth, but chiefly in Scarsdale hundred; 4 miles N.N.E. from Matlock, about 7 miles S. from Chesterfield, and about the like distance N.W. from Alfreton; pleasantly situate near the rivers Amber and Milntown: it is a place of considerable antiquity having had a church at the time of the conquest, and was formerly a market-town. Coal, iron-stone, mill-stone and lead are found in the parish, and the Gregory lead mine is said to have been, at one time, the richest in the kingdom, but of late years its produce has much decreased. On the side of a hill on Ashover common, is a rocking-stone, called by the country-people 'Robin Hood's Mark'; it measures 26 feet in circumference, and from its extraordinary position appears to have been a work of art, and placed with great ingenuity. The church, which is dedicated to All-Saints, is a large edifice of ancient appearance, supposed to have been erected in the early part of the fifteenth century: it has a very handsome spire. The church contains several monuments to the Babington family, and a Norman font of curious design. The living is a rectory, of which the Rev. Lawrence Short is the present incumbent. The primitive and Wesleyan methodists have each a place of worship here, and there is a free-school in which about twenty poor children are instructed, by means arising, from a bequest of land, made by the Rev. Francis Gisborne, in 1819. The parish of Ashover (which includes the hamlets of Dethwick-Lea and Holloway) contained, in 1821, 2,998 inhabitants, and in 1831, 3,179. POST:- Letters from CHESTERFIELD arrive every Monday aftern. & are despatched every Monday morn. GENTRY & CLERGY.Mills William, esq. Stubbin edge Nodder Rev. Joseph, Marsh green Rawlins Rev. R. Ashover PUBLIC HOUSES. Black Swan, George Allen Crispin's Arms, Dorothea Wall Greyhound, Marina Towndrow Nag's Head, Saml. Veans, Kelstage Nelson, John Hole Red Lion, Joseph Marsden White Horse, Wm. Ash, Kelstage White Lion, John Ellis SHOPKEEPERS & TRADERS. Allen George, lime burner Allen George, schoolmaster Askew Michael, butcher Bennett Geo. nail maker Beresford James, boot, &c. maker, Kelstage Birks Abraham, lime burner Bower Richd. jun, boot, &c. maker Bunting John, tailor Bunting John, jun. tailor Cawood George, Cotton spinner & bleacher, Kelstage Gaunt Robert, boot, &c. maker Goodlad Charles, Corn miller Heaton Mary, saddler Henstock Joseph, maltster Henstock William, boot, &c. maker Hoskinson Edmund, butcher Mellor John, wheelwright Mellor Samuel, wheelwright Mills Wm. & Chas. lead merchants Robinson James, plumber, &c. Slack Samuel, butcher Smith John, gardener & seedsman Smith Matth. wheelwright, Kelstage Stevenson Elizth. corn miller Thompson Jos. engineer, Ashover hill Towndrow John, maltster Turner Job, nail maker Twig John & Joseph, lime burners, maltsters & rope & twine makers Veans Saml. blacksmith, Kelstage Wheatcroft James, tailor Wheatcroft Titus, gunsmith Wheatcroft William, gunsmith White Henry, blacksmith White John, blacksmith Willis Thomas, tailor CARRIER. To CHESTERFIELD, George Gregory, every Saturday. Description(s) from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835. |
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