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SUDBURY - Description from Pigot's 1835 Directory

SUDBURY is a parish, containing a small and neat village, in the same hundred as the preceeding parishes; the village being situate 13 miles W. by S. from Derby, and 4 E. by S. from Doveridge. To the north-east of the village is Sudbury hall and park, the fine seat of Lord Vernon. The church, which is very old, stands in the garden near the hall, and being covered with ivy, presents a picturesque ornament in the scenery around it.

In this humble fabric, the ancestors of the Vernons, for more than two centuries, have been interred, and several monuments to their memory impart no slight degree of interest to its interior - one especially, to the memory of Catherine, daughter of the late Lord Vernon, will claim attention, from the beautiful and truly poetical lines inscribed upon it. The living of Sudbury is a rectory, in the gift of Lord Vernon, who is a munificent patron of the parish, and has rebuilt a school-house, in which twenty-four poor boys are educated and clothed, besides receiving instruction in the trade of a tailor or shoemaker, at his lordship's sole expense. Lady Vernon has also erected a commodious and handsome school-house for the instruction of girls in the common branches of female education, and in the art of plaiting straw for making bonnets; the children are likewise clothed chiefly at the expense of her ladyship and Mrs. Anson; several other benevolent ladies taking an active part in the superintendence of the establishment.

The parish contained, at the last census, 642 inhabitants.

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

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