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Cromford in Derby County England History and GeographyCROMFORD, a chapelry in the parish and hundred of WIRKSWORTH, county of DERBY, 15 miles (N.) from Derby, and 141 (N.N.W.) from London, containing 1242 inhabitants. This place which is pleasantly situated on the river Derwent, was an inconsiderable village prior to the year 1780, when Sir Richard Arkwright having purchased the manor, erected mills, and established a cotton manufactory of very considerable extent. Since this period it has greatly increased, and is now a flourishing place: it consists chiefly of dwellings for the persons employed in the factories, which are neat and commodious; of these many are built round an open space in which a small customary market is held on Saturday; the others are chiefly in detached situations. The cotton manufactory affords employment to more than one thousand persons, including a proportionate number of children, who are not admitted into the factory till they have been for a certain time at a school supported by the proprietor for their instruction; there is also a manufactory for hats, and one for ginghams, on a small scale, and a paper manufactory, in which about forty persons are occupied: a great quantity of lapis calaminaris is made here, of which from one hundred to four hundred tons are exported annually. The Cromford canal, communicating with the Erewash canal near Langley bridge, and the Cromford and Peak Forest railway afford every facility for the conveyance of minerals, coal, and lime-stone to various parts of the kingdom. The chapel, a small neat building, begun by Sir Richard Arkwright, and completed by his son, Richard Arkwright, Esq., who endowed it with £50 per annum in perpetuity, was consecrated in 1797. The living is a donative, in the patronage of Richard Arkwright, Esq. There are day and Sunday schools, founded and supported by the Arkwright family, for the instruction of the children employed in the factory. Almshouses for six poor widows were founded in 1651, by Dame Mary Talbot. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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