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STAVELEY - Description from Pigot's 1835 Directory

STAVELEY is a parish, in the hundred of Scarsdale, the village being about five miles E.N.E. from Chesterfield, and three S.W. from Barlborough; situate near the banks of the river Rother, and the Chesterfield canal. In the neighbourhood are mines of coal and iron-stone, with furnaces for smelting the ore; and in the village is a manufactory for painting brushes of a superior description, and brushes for machinery, belonging to a Mr. Fletcher.

The church, which is dedicated to St. John the Baptist, contains several monuments of the Frecheville family; and the east window exhibits some stained glass, presented by Lord Frecheville in 1676. The living is a rectory, in the patronage of the Duke of Devonshire. Here is a place of worship for Wesleyan methodists. The charities comprise a free grammar school, of ancient foundation, and alms-houses, at Woodthorpe, for four aged persons of each sex, erected by Sir Peter Frecheville in 1632. The parish of Staveley (including the township of Great Barlow), contained, in 1821. 2,759 inhabitants, and in 1831, 2,926.

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

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