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BARLBOROUGH - Description from Pigot's 1835 Directory

BARLBOROUGH is a parish (having no dependent township) in the same hundred as Eckington, about three miles S.S.E. therefrom, nearly eight N.E. from Chesterfield, and about three W. from the village of Whitwell. In the neighbourhood are extensive collieries and mines of iron-stone; and the turnpike roads from Chesterfield to Worksop, and from Sheffield to Mansfield, cross, near the Village, at right angles.

'Barlborough Hall', situate about a mile hence, is a spacious and interesting edifice, erected about the time of Elizabeth. The church is dedicated to St. James; the living is a rectory, in the patronage and incumbency of the Rev. C. H. R. Rodes, who is joint lord of the manor with S. C. Pole, Esq. The charities comprise a school for the instruction of twenty poor children, towards the support of which the Rev. C. H. R. Rodes contributes £30. annually; and an hospital, founded, in 1732, by Margaret and Mary Pole, of Park Hall, for six poor women, who are allowed three shillings and sixpence per week, besides coals

The parish contained, in 1821, 675 in inhabitants, and in 1831. 713.

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835
Transcribed by Rosemary Lockie ©1999]

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