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Sutton in Ashfield in Nottingham County England History and GeographySUTTON in ASHFIELD, a parish in the northern division of the wapentake of BROXTOW, county of NOTTINGHAM, 3½ miles (W.S.W.) from Mansfield, containing, with the hamlet of Hucknall under Huthwaite, 4655 inhabitants. The village is situated on an eminence, and comprises several streets, covering a considerable extent of ground. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in the manufacture of cotton hose and lace: in the former about one thousand seven hundred frames are in operation, affording employment to more than two thousand five hundred persons; and there are twenty machines for making the latter: a large factory for spinning cotton, and making checks and nankeens, has long been conducted here. A few also find employment in making a coarse kind of red pottery ware. The Mansfield and Pinxton railway passes through this parish. Limestone of excellent quality abounds in the vicinity. A book society has been established for several years. A small customary market, for provisions, is held on Saturday. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the manorial court of Mansfield, endowed with £400 private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £1800 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Duke of Devonshire. The church, situated north-west of the town, is dedicated to St. Mary. There are places of worship for General and Particular Baptists, Independents, and Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists. A National school for boys is principally supported by voluntary contributions, excepting about £10 per annum, which is now appropriated for that purpose, arising from two small benefactions in land, given, some years ago, for the general purposes of education, by James Mason and Elizabeth Root. A Sunday school, in which twenty-one boys and one hundred and twenty girls are instructed, is connected with this institution; and the Sunday schools attached to the dissenting religious communities contain not less than five hundred children of both sexes. Joseph Whitehead, a frame-work knitter, eminent for his attainments in astronomy and mechanics, who constructed an orrery upon Ferguson's principle, and other complicated pieces of machinery, and was also an excellent musician, was a native of this place; he died in 1811, at the early age of twenty-seven years. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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