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WINSTER - Description from Pigot's 1835 Directory

WINSTER, although but a chapelry to Youlgreave, and now an inconsiderable village, was once a market town of some note. It is six miles from Bakewell, and 13 S.W. from Chesterfield, situate on the old road from Ashbourn to the latter town, and midway between the river Derwent and the Cromford and High Peak railway, about three miles from each; with the latter of which a branch communication is contemplated.

It consists of one street; the houses of which are but mean buildings. The church, which is dedicated to St. John, is a neat building, with a square tower, and is nearly covered with ivy: the living is a perpetual curacy, in the gift of the freeholders; the Rev. Walter Shirley is the present incumbent. There are no tithes, for upon an enclosure of some waste lands, a portion was set apart for the minister in lieu thereof. The other places of worship are a chapel each for the primitive and Wesleyan methodists. Thomas Eyre, Esq. in 1717, bequeathed £20. per annum for the instruction of twenty poor children; and Robert Moore, in 1718, left an annuity of £5. for teaching five more.

In the neighbourhood are several barrows, in one of which, opened in 1768, two glass vessels were discovered, containing some clear, but green-coloured water, a silver bracelet, some glass beads, and other trinkets. The market, which is entitled to be holden on Saturday, and the fair on Easter-Monday, have fallen into disuse. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in the mining business:- the number in the chapelry, by the returns made to the government in 1821, was 928, and by those in 1831, 962.

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

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