CRICH is an extensive parish, containing the township of Crich, in the Morleston and Litchurch Hundred; the township of Wessington, in the Scarsdale Hundred ; and the township and chapelry of Tansley in the Wirksworth Hundred. The entire parish contained in 1851, 3,670 inhabitants.
Crich is a large well-built village and township, pleasantly situated at the cross of the roads from Alfreton to Cromford and Wirksworth; 5 miles W. by S. from Alfreton. The church, which is dedicated to St. Michael, is a handsome structure, situated on a commanding eminence, with a tower, surmounted by a spire, and five bells. The living is a vicarage ; Rev. William Chawner, B.A., is the incumbent. The General Baptists, the Wesleyans, the Wesleyan Reformers, and Primitive Methodists, have each places of worship here. The Primitive Methodists have also chapels at Crich Carr, and Fritchley ; the Independents have also a chapel at the latter place. The national school was erected in 1848.
Ambergate, a small hamlet on the Midland Railway, at the junction where the Matlock and Rowsley and Matlock branch joins the main line, 1½ mile S.E. from Crich. Here is a neat railway station.
Tansley, a township, chapelry, and scattered village, 5 miles N.N.E. from Crich. A district church was erected here in 1839. It is a neat stone structure. The living is a perpetual curacy; the Rev. Melville Holmes is the incumbent. A handsome national school was built in 1843 ; since which an infant school has been added. The Wesleyan Methodists have a neat chapel here.
Wessington, a small village, 3 miles N. from Crich. A Sunday school was erected by subscription in 1841, which is now licensed as an Episcopal place of worship, and the vicar of "Crich officiates in it. The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have each a small chapel here.
Post-office, at Charlotte Witham's, Crich. Letters arrive from Belper at 8.0 a.m., and are despatched at 6.0 p.m.
Post-office, at Mary Leam's, Fritchley. Letters arrive at 8.0 a.m. and are despatched at 6.30 p.m.
GENTRY, CLERGY, &c.Chawner, Rev. W., B.A., vicar, Vicarage |
Frost, Mrs. Dinah |
Alsop, John and Robert, besom makers |
Leam, Mary, grocer |
TANSLEY TOWNSHIP.
Post Office at John Thatcher’s; letters arrive by foot-post from Matlock Bath at 10.0 a.m., and are despatched at 4.30 p.m.
Holmes, Rev. Melville, incumbent
Staley, George
| Blackwell, Joseph, farmer Bobanks, James, grocer and chandler Bown, William, Gate Inn and farmer Calow, Francis, wood turner Calow, William, shoemaker Cook, John, farmer Eaton, Ann, farmer Farnsworth, John, bleacher Fox, James and Joseph, millers Garton, John, bleacher and paint works Hackett, Thomas, smallware manufacturer Hicklin, William, farmer Potter, John, stonemason |
Radford and Sons, cotton spinners Smith, Joseph and Stephen, nurseryman Smith, Samuel, dyer Spencer, Thomas, farmer Spencer, William, shoemaker Spendlove, Job, farmer T Taylor, Timothy, George and Dragon Inn Thatcher, John, grocer Twigg, Ben., farmer Watts, Grace, farmer Wetton, Elizabeth, farmer White, George, blacksmith Whittaker, William, shopkeeper |
WESSINGTON TOWNSHIP.
Frost, John, Bunting House
TRADERS, &c.| Bansall, Matthew, farmer Bryan Matthew, farmer Cardeux Mary Ann, schoolmistress Cresswell, farmer and brickmaker Cross, John, shopkeeper Goodwin, William, farmer Hodgson, Thomas, farmer Lane, William, shoemaker Marriott, Mary, farmer Marsden John, farmer Marshall, Elizabeth, farmer Mountney, james, shopkeeper and farmer Rawson, Eloizabeth, shopkeeper Rawson, William, farmer Sadler, Thomas, wheelwright Sims, James, Three Horse Shoes |
Sims, John, farmer Sterland, William, Horse and Jockey butcher, and tanner Taylor, Timothy, shoemaker Thorpe, Thomas, farmer Tomlinson, W., blacksmith Wetton, George, farmer Wheatcroft, William, shoemaker White, Joseph, farmer Willott, George, farmer Willott, Jonathan, farmer Wragg, Edward, farmer Wragg, George, farmer Wragg, Samuel, farmer Yeomans, John, farmer |
Note: In the Crich records Benjamin Broadhurst is shown as being at the Thatched House Tavern. This was not in Crich but at Ambergate on the site of the Hurt Arms (the Tavern was demolished before 1874)
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