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Ashford in Derby County England History and GeographyASHFORD, a chapelry in the parish of BAKEWELL, hundred of HIGH PEAK, county of DERBY, 2 miles (N.W. by W.) from Bakewell, containing 728 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield, endowed with £200 private benefaction, £800 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the gift of the Vicar of Bakewell. The chapel, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was built in 1247. Here is a chapel belonging to the General Baptists, another originally founded by the Nonconformist divine, William Bagshaw, styled 'the Apostle of the Peak,' has been subsequently used by different sects. The village lies in a vale watered by the river Wye, which is here crossed by three stone bridges: mills for sawing and polishing marble, being the first established for that purpose in England, were erected on its banks in 1786, and are supplied from the celebrated quarries of black marble in the vicinity. Ashford is in the honour of Tutbury, belonging to the Duchy of Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction of a court of pleas for the recovery of debts under 40s., held every third Tuesday at Tutbury. A school for poor children was founded by William Harris, in 1631, and endowed with property to the amount of £6. 13. 4. per annum, which has been increased with a gift of £1 per annum by Thomas Roose. Edward Plantagenet, Earl of Kent, resided in a mansion which stood near the church, every vestige of which, except the moat which surrounded it, has disappeared. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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