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| == Parish History == | | == Parish History == |
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| Monyash is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Derbyshire, created in 1744 from chapelry in [[Bakewell, Derbyshire]] Ancient Parish. <br> | | Monyash is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Derbyshire, created in 1744 from chapelry in [[Bakewell, Derbyshire]] Ancient Parish. <br> |
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| MONYASH, a chapelry, in the parish and union of Bakewell, hundred of High Peak, N. division of the county of Derby, 4¾ miles (W. S. W.) from Bakewell; containing 600 inhabitants. The chapelry comprises 3000a. 3r. 16p., of which about 100 acres are uncultivated waste. At Rucklow-Dales are extensive rocks of grey and of black marble, of which a large quantity is quarried; and near them rises the river Lathkill, noted for the beautiful scenery on its banks. A court of miners is held at Monyash once in six months, at which all pleas of debt, and disputes as to title, relating to the lead-mines within the hundred of High Peak, are determined by the steward and bar-masters, assisted by a jury of twenty-four persons. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £100; patron, the Vicar of Bakewell; impropriator, the Duke of Rutland. The chapel, dedicated to St. Leonard, has a low tower and spire. There is a meeting-house for the Society of Friends, and the Primitive Methodists have a place of worship. A school, built in 1750, has an income of £17 per annum, arising from an allotment of land under an inclosure act in 1771. About a mile and a half from the village are "The Arborlows," Druidical remains, which occupy a mound twenty feet above the surrounding level; they consist of a number of stones from ten to twelve feet in length, and from four to five in width, placed in a circular position, each stone pointing to the centre: the diameter of the circle is not less than forty yards.
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| From: ''[[A Topographical Dictionary of England]]'' (1848), pp. 334-340. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51157 Date accessed: 04 April 2011.<br>
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| == Resources == | | == Resources == |