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Glossop in Derby County England History and GeographyGLOSSOP, a parish in the hundred of HIGH PEAK, county of DERBY, comprising the chapelries of Charlesworth, Chinley-Bugsworth with Brownside, and Mellor; the townships of Chunat, Dinting, Glossop, Great-Hamlet, Hadfield, Ludworth with Chisworth, Padfield, Simondsley, and Whitfield; the hamlets of Beard, Kinder, Olerset, Thornsett, and Whittle; and the liberty of Phoside, and containing 13,766 inhabitants, of which number, 1351 are in the township of Glossop, 10 miles (N.) from Chapel en le Frith. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and diocese of Lichfield, rated in the king's books at £12. 18. 9., endowed with £400 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Duke of Norfolk. The church, dedicated to All Saints, has lately received an addition of two hundred and eighty sittings, of which one hundred and forty are free, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels having granted £200 towards defraying the expense. There are several places of worship for Independents and Wesleyan Methodists within the limits of this extensive parish, the population of which has more than doubled during the last fifty years, owing to the great increase of its manufactures. There are about fifty cotton-mills, five extensive establishments for calico-printing, two clothing-mills, a manufactory for cloth, and another for brown paper. A fair for cattle, and wooden and tin ware, is held on the 6th of May, in the township of Glossop. A school, wherein about forty children are taught, is supported by a small endowment, the origin of which is unknown, and by an annual donation from the Duke of Norfolk. Glossop is in the honour of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction of a court of pleas held at Tutbury every third Tuesday, for the recovery of debts under 40s. On the south side of the Mersey, near Woolley Bridge, are vestiges of a Roman station, in dimensions one hundred and twenty-two yards by one hundred and twelve, called Melandra Castle; the moat towards the south-east, the four entrances, the ramparts, about nine feet in thickness, and the site of the pr?torium, twenty-five yards square, are still discernible, as is the old Roman road from Brough to this place, and that to Buxton. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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