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History of the Village of Stoney Middleton
By Thomas E. Cowen (1910)

This transcription by Rosemary Lockie © 2003
CONTENTS.
FRONTISPIECE
PREFACE
  1. THE VILLAGE.
  2. DWELLINGS.
  3. THE CHURCH.
  4. THE CHURCHYARD - VILLAGE STOCKS.
  5. THE ROMAN BATHS.
  6. THE HALL.
  7. THE ANCIENT MANOR OF MIDDLETUNE.
  8. CASTLE HILL, KESTER DALE, KESTER BANK.
  9. THE SCHOOLS.
  10. THE HOSTELRIES.
  11. THE DALE.
  12. THE LOVER'S LEAP.
  13. THE CAEL'S WARK OR GAEL'S WARK CAVERN.
  14. THE WAKES.
  15. ROADS IN COACHING DAYS.
  16. NOTABLE PERSONS LIVING IN MIDDLETON.
  17. ANCIENT MINING LAWS.
  18. CUSTOMS AND SUPERSTITIONS.
  19. DIALECT OF THE PEAK.
  20. PLACE NAMES.
  21. SURNAMES.
  22. CHARITIES.
  23. INDUSTRIES.
  24. WALKS AROUND MIDDLETON.
  25. MISCELLANEOUS.
  26. INDEX.
  27. ILLUSTRATIONS.
  28. ADVERTS.

HISTORY

  of the Village of

STONEY
MIDDLETON

By THOS. E. COWEN.
SCHOOLMASTER OF STONEY MIDDLETON

  Or has no gently breathing gale
Borne thee the music from the dale
Of famous Stoney Middle-town
Right famous for the Mon-i'-the-moon.		 
 -Richard Furness. 

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY
WILFRED EDMUNDS LTD., "THE DERBYSHIRE TIMES",
CHESTERFIELD.

[OCR/transcript by Rosemary Lockie in February 2003,
from a copy of a History of Stoney Middleton acquired on Inter-Library Loan]

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