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== Parish History == | == Parish History == | ||
Tibshelf St John the Baptist is an Ancient Parish in Derbyshire.<br> | |||
TIBSHELF (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Mansfield, hundred of Scarsdale, N. division of the county of Derby, 4 miles (N. E. by N.) from Alfreton; containing 791 inhabitants. The parish is situated on the road from Mansfield to Matlock, and comprises 2400 acres, the whole of which, with the exception of 500 acres belonging to the Duke of Devonshire, is the property of St. Thomas's Hospital, by a grant of King Edward VI. Stone of an inferior quality is quarried, and used for building; coal-mines are worked to a considerable extent, and many of the population are employed in weaving or seaming stockings. The village consists of a long street. At Doe Hill and Hirst are pleasant residences, and at Biggin and Marlpits good farms. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £4. 5. 3., and in the gift, for the next turn, of John Robert Sharpe, Esq.; net income, £172. There is a parsonage-house, and the glebe contains 42 acres. The body of the church was rebuilt in 1727, in the Grecian style; the tower and chancel are in the early English style. Here is a chalybeate spring. | |||
From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 355-357. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51343 Date accessed: 18 April 2011.<br> | |||
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