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WHITWELL - Description from Pigot's 1835 Directory

WHITWELL is a parish, in the hundred of Scarsdale; the village is situate at the N.E. extremity of the county, and is twelve miles N.E. from Chesterfield. The Duke of Portland is lord of the manor. The church is dedicated to St. Lawrence; the living is a rectory, in the patronage of the Duke, and in the incumbency of the Rev. George Mason, of Cuckney, Nottinghamshire; the Rev. J. Harnage is the present curate.

Here is a school, founded by the Duchess of Portland, in which seventy girls are taught sewing, reading, writing, and arithmetic. At Steetly, said to have been at one period a distinct parish, is a desecrated church, exhibiting a curious and good specimen of the enriched style of Norman architecture; it is an interesting ruin, and is preserved with great care. A statute fair for hiring servants, formerly held in November, has fallen into disuse.

The parish contained, by the returns for 1821, 873 inhabitants, and by those for 1831, 1,007.

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

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