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PLEASLEY - Description from Pigot's 1835 Directory

PLEASELEY is a village, in the parish of its name, which is in the same hundred as Bolsover, about four miles S.S.E. from that town. It was at one period of much greater consequence than it now is, having been a market town.

A cotton spinning factory is the only trade establishment of any magnitude now existing here. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is an ancient edifice of stone, of rather singular form, being remarkably long and narrow. There is a large chasm in the steeple, caused by the shock of an earth-quake, which was felt in some of the midland counties, on the 17th March, 1816. The living is a rectory, in the patronage of Bache Thornhill, Esq. The market has long fallen into disuse; but two annual fairs are still maintained, which take place on the 6th of May and 29th of October, for horses, cattle and sheep.

The parish contained, at the last census (1831), 611 inhabitants.

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

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