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BRADBOURNE AND LEA HALL - Extract from "1876 Post Office
Directory"
Bradbourne is a township and parish and village, 5.5
miles south-west from Wirksworth, 5 north-north- east from Ashbourne and 152
from London, in the Northern division of the county, hundred and county
court district of Wirksworth, Ashbourne union rural deanery of Ashbourne,
archdeaconry of Derby, Lichfield Diocese. The church of All Saints is an old
building in the Early Norman style, consisting of chancel, nave and aisle,
with square tower, and was repaired in 1846 at a cost of £300, in the tower
is a very curious old Norman doorway. The register dates from the year 1720.
The living is a vicarage, tithes commuted at £107 in the gift of the Duke of
Devonshire, and held by the Rev. Edward Josiah Hayton MA of University
College, Durham. The church of Bradbourne was given by Jeffery de Cauceis to
the priory of Dunstable in the year 1205, and remained annexed to the priory
until the Reformation, the churches of the parish (Bradbourne, Brassington,
Tissington, Ballidon and Atlow) were served by a company of four monks, who
were sent from Dunstable and resided at the rectory at Bradbourne, at the
Reformation the church and glebe lands were given to Sir Walter de-Ferriers,
who afterwards sold the lands and eventually the advowson of the rectory,
the lands were purchased by an ancestor of Mr Buckston, the present
possessor, about the end of the 17th century. Here is a free
school, built by the late William Evans esq. and supported by Thomas William
Evans esq. MP. Sir William Fitzherbert bart JP is lord of the Manor. The
principal landowners are Sir William Fitzherbert bart JP, S H
Chandos-Pole-Gell esq., Rev R G Buckston, and Mrs Alderson. Buxton’s charity
of £1 yearly, payable out of the Shelbroad Close, in the parish of
Brassington, and Gisbourne’s of £7.5s are for distribution. The soil is
mixed, subsoil shale, clay and limestone. The land is chiefly kept in
pasture for dairy produce. The area is 2834 acres, rateable value £4186, the
population in 1871 of the township was 157 and of the parish 1185.
LEA HALL is a township; it pays church rates to
Bradbourne. The area is 450 acres, rateable value £859 and the population in
1871 was 18.
Parish clerk: John Smith
Letters through Wirksworth via Brassington. The nearest
money order office is Parwich.
Free School. John Smith, master; Mrs Sarah Smith,
mistress.
Carrier to Wirksworth – James Twigg every Tuesday
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Hayton Rev Edward Josiah MA Vicar
Wilkie Col. David JP The Hall
Commercial
Ashton James, cowkeeper
Ashton Margaret (Mrs) cowkeeper
Ashton William, farmer
Barnsley Wm & Son, farmers, Aldwark
Beeston Matthew, farmer
Burton Mary (Mrs), farmer
Buxton Benjamin, farmer, Aldwark
Critchlow George, farmer
Critchlow Ralph, farmer
Dale George, farmer, Lea Hall
Fearn Josiah, shopkeeper
Gennis Sarah, (Mrs), farmer
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Gerrard, John, farmer
Gerrard Joseph, miller
Hardy Joshua, farmer, Aldwark
Holmes Daniel, farmer
Matkin Joseph, farmer
Rowland James, shoe maker
Smith William farmer, Lea Hall
Stafford Zaccheus, farmer
Wagstaff Francis, farmer, Aldwark
Watson John, farmer
Webster Elizth (Mrs), farmer, Aldwark
Webster Francis, farmer
Whilock Francis, farmer
Wooddisse Ralph, farmer
Wright William, farmer
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AA Book of Villages on Bradbourne:
"An 8th
century Saxon cross gives distinction to this remote village on a hill
overlooking the narrow valley of Havenhill Dale Brook, the cross depicting a
scene from the crucifixion is one of the finest in Derbyshire. It stands in
the churchyard of All Saints, whose square Norman tower, which dates from
1140, stands on a Saxon base.
All Saints contains many monuments to the local Buckston
family. One commemorates Thomas Buckston, described as one of the oldest
officers in HM service when he died in 1811. The south door of the church
tower, with its moulded columns and wedge shaped arch stones, is one of the
best Norman doorways to survive in any part of the country.
Near the churchyard stands Bradbourne Hall; a grey stone
Elizabethan mansion, which was built on the site of a grange used by the
monks of Dunstable Priory who once farmed the limestone hills of the
district. During the middle ages the lords of the manor were the Bradbourne
family, their seat Lea Hall, still exists 1 mile to the south-west of the
village.
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