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Shelford in Nottingham County England History and GeographySHELFORD, a parish in the southern division of the wapentake of BINGHAM, county of NOTTINGHAM, 8 miles (E.N.E.) from Nottingham, containing, with the township of Saxondale, and part of that of Newton, 671 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Nottingham, and diocese of York, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £300 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Earl of Chesterfield. The church, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, is the burial-place of the noble family of Stanhope, and contains the remains of Philip, the accomplished Earl of Chesterfield, who died in 1773. This parish forms part of the vale of Trent, which river bounds it on the west and north, and the Fosse-road touches its south-eastern boundary. It 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. A priory, in honour of the blessed Virgin Mary, was founded here, in the time of Henry II., by Ralph Hanselyn, which, at the dissolution, had a revenue of £151. 14.1. An hospital, called the Bede Houses, was founded and endowed, in 1694, by Sir William Stanhope, for the reception and support of six of his decayed tenants, but the number has been reduced to four. The manor-house was garrisoned by Col. Stanhope, son of the first Earl of Chesterfield, for Charles I., and taken by storm by Col. Hutchinson, for the parliament, after a gallant resistance, during which Colonel Stanhope and most of his men were slain. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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