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MEASHAM - Description from Pigot's 1835 Directory

MEASHAM is a village and parish, in the hundred of Repton and Gresley, county of Derby, though locally situate in the western division of the hundred of Goscote, county of Leicester, about three miles and a half S.S.W. from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, the canal of which name passes through the village; and the parish is bounded on the west, north, and south, by the river Mease. There are potteries in the neighbourhood, which give employ employment to some of the inhabitants, but the majority are employed in agriculture, and many farmers and graziers of great respectability are resident in the parish.

The places of worship are the parish church, dedicated to St. Lawrence, and a chapel for Wesleyan methodists: the living of Measham is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Marquess of Hastings; the present incumbent is the Rev. J. C. Moore. A school conducted upon the national plan is in the village. The parish (which has no dependant township), contained in 1821, 1,404 inhabitants, and in 1831, 1,535.

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

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