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Wingfield (South) in Derby County England History and GeographyWINGFIELD (SOUTH), a parish in the hundred of SCARSDALE, county of DERBY, 2½ miles (W.) from Alfreton, containing 1051 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 £6. 13. 4., and in the patronage of the Duke of Devonshire. The church is dedicated to All Saints. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The ancient Iknield-street passes through the parish, in which coal is obtained. The village is large, and possesses a considerable and increasing trade in the weaving of stockings, for which there are about two hundred frames in operation. Samuel Newton, in 1683, gave £200 for charitable uses, with which sum certain lands were purchased, now producing £33 per annum, £20 of which is applied for teaching twenty children. The estate called Strelley's charity, at Okerthorpe in this parish, is now let for £55 a year, of which income £20 was directed by the donor to be applied for apprenticing two poor boys, and £10 for exhibitions for two poor scholars at the University. The manor-house, now an extensive and interesting ruin, was a splendid and spacious edifice, erected by Ralph, Lord Cromwell, Lord Treasurer in the reign of Henry VI.: it was afterwards, for several generations, one of the principal seats of the Earls of Shrewsbury; and Mary, Queen of Scots, while in the custody of George, the sixth earl, passed some months here, in 1569; she was here also in November and December, 1584. At the commencement of the parliamentary war, Wingfield manor-house was garrisoned for the parliament; but being taken by the Earl of Newcastle, towards the close of the year 1643, it was then made a royal garrison: in 1644 it sustained a siege, but surrendered to the parliament in August: in 1646, it was dismantled by order of parliament. In 1774, a considerable part of the mansion was pulled down, to build a modern house near it with the materials. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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