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Hope, Derbyshire

Extract from Directory of "Sheffield and 20 miles round", 1862

HOPE parish comprises the townships of Hope, Abney and Abney Grange, Aston, Bradwell, Brough and Shatton, Fairfield, Fernilee, Grindlow, Hazlebadge, Highlow, Great and Little Hucklow, Offerton, Nether Padley, Stoke, Thornhill, part of Wardlow, and Woodland Hope, all in the High Peak Hundred, and together containing about 41,000 acres of land.
Hope Township	Abney Township

HOPE is a small, pleasant, and well-built market town, 15 miles S.W. from Sheffield, contains 2,500 acres of land, and in 1851 had 429 inhabitants. Rateable value, £2,219 9s. 1d. Col. Leslie is the principal owner, besides whom are several, small freeholders. The Church is a large ancient structure, in the later English style, and consists of nave, chancel, side aisles, and tower with spire, and has a peal of six good bells. The vicarage, value £380, is in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield. The Rev. C.J. Daniel, M.A., is the incumbent, and resides at the Vicarage, a neat stone residence, erected in 1856. The Wesleyans have a small Chapel here, and here is an ancient School endowed with £8 per annum. A cattle market is held on the last Wednesday in the month, and fairs on March 28th and May 13th, and a statutes for hiring servants on the latter day. The Pimdale Lime Works, in this township, are noted for the superiority of the lime obtained here. Mr. N.W. Ashton is the proprietor. The, school and poor of the township have several small benefactions.
[Unfortunately this extract is incomplete, as my photocopy didn't cover the rest - my apologies]

[Transcribed by Rosemary Lockie in June 2000,
from photocopies of an original edition in the Society of Genealogists' Library]

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