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Dronfield in Derby County England History and GeographyDRONFIELD, a parish in the hundred of SCARSDALE, county of DERBY, 6 miles (N.W. by N.) from Chesterfield, comprising the chapelries of Dore and Holmesfield, the townships of Coal-Aston and Unstone, and the hamlet of Totley, and containing (exclusively of part of the township of Barlow which is in this parish) 3680 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £10. 2. 1., endowed with £600 private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £600 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Crown. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, has a tower and spire at the west end, opposite to which there was once a chantry chapel, now converted into an inn. There are places of worship for the Society of Friends, Independents, and Wesleyan Methodists. Dronfield, in Domesday-book called Dranefield, had formerly the privilege of a market, but on account of its proximity to Chesterfield and Sheffield, it has been long discontinued. There is a fair for cattle and cheese on April 25th, and another fair on August 11th. Scythes, sickles, and edge-tools, are manufactured here; and there are manufactories for cast ware, various articles in cutlery, and saddlers' ironmongery, also for spindles for cotton works. A great quantity of coal is obtained in the neighbourhood. The grammar school was erected in 1579, by Thomas Fanshawe, Esq., in pursuance of the will of his father, dated in 1567, by which it is endowed with lands now producing an annual income of £200. Queen Elizabeth, by letters patent, empowered the above-named executor to make the necessary statutes for its government, and ordained that the vicar and churchwardens, or in default, six wise and honest men, to be chosen by his heirs, should be constituted a body corporate, by the name of 'The governors of the grammar school of Henry Fanshawe, Esq.' The master's salary is £130, the usher's £66, besides which they have each a dwelling-house; one hundred and thirty children are educated upon this foundation. There are two other free schools in the parish, one at Dore, and another at Holmesfield. At Cawley is a sulphureous spring, with a bath annexed. About two miles from the town are the remains of Beauchief abbey, founded in 1183, for Premonstratensian or White canons, by Robert Fitz-Ranulph, Lord of Alfreton, one of the executioners of Thomas ? Becket, to whom it was dedicated; on its dissolution, in the 26th of Henry VIII., the revenue was valued at £157. 10. 2. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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