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Ashover in Derby County England History and GeographyASHOVER, a parish partly in the hundred of SCARSDALE, and partly in the hundred of WIRKSWORTH, county of DERBY. The former part, comprising the village of Ashover, contains 2506 inhabitants; and the latter, consisting of the hamlet of Dethwick-Lea, with Holloway, 492: the entire population is 2998. The village, which was formerly a market town, is pleasantly situated near the rivers Amber and Milntown, 7½ miles (N.W. by W.) from Alfreton, and 145 (N.W.) from London. The manufacture of stockings is carried on to a small extent, and the working of tambour lace affords employment to the greater part of the female population. Fairs for cattle and sheep are held on the 25th of April, and the 15th of October. Ashover is within the jurisdiction of the county magistrates, and in the honour of Tutbury, where a court is held every third Tuesday for the recovery of debts under 40s: constables and other officers for its internal regulation are appointed at the court leet of the lord of the manor. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £24. 3. 1½. A. L. Maynard, Esq. and others were patrons in 1797. The church, dedicated to All Saints, is an ancient edifice with a very handsome spire, and contains a Norman font of curious design, and several monuments to the family of Babington. There are places of worship for Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists. The free school, erected in 1703, is endowed with £21. 9. per annum, principally arising from a bequest of land by the Rev. Francis Gisborne, in 1819. On Ashover common there is a rocking stone, about twenty-six feet in circumference, vulgarly called 'Robin Hood's mark;' and about 200 yards northward from it is a rock exhibiting a rude resemblance of the human form. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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