DERBYSHIRE is in the North-Midlands, and lies north of the Trent, having Yorkshire to the north-east, Nottinghamshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south-east, Staffordshire to the west, and Cheshire to the north-west; the Staffordshire border is the longest. The county is broad towards the north and tapering towards the south. On the west and south-west the Dove, the Trent and the Tame are the bounds, on the north-west the Etherow, on the north the Sheaf, on the east the Erewash: it lies between 52 deg. 41 min. and 53 ½ deg. north latitude, and between 1 deg. 10 min. and a deg. 4 min. west longitude: its length is 56 miles from north to south, and its breadth from east to west 34 miles.

The area of the county wad 657,550 acres, but, under the provisions of the “Local Government (Englandand Wales) Act, 1888” (51 and 52 Vict. c. 41), by the Counties of Derby and Leicester (Woodville &c.) Order, dated May 8, 1897, which came into force Sept. 30, 1897, the parishes of Chilcote, Donisthorpe, Measham, Stretton-en-le-Field, Willesley, and part of Appleby, with a total area of 7,831 acres, were transferred to Leicestershire, and Over and Netherseal, and Woodville, with 4,252 acres added, to Derbyshire from Leicestershire.

In pursuance of the same Act, by the Order of the Joint Boundary Committee of Notts and Derbyshire, dated Aug. 14, 1894, the Notts portion of Pinxton parish, with 99 acres, was added to Derbyshire.

By Local Government Board Order the Derbyshire portions of Croxall, Stapenhill and Winshill, with 2,116 acres, were transferred to Staffordshire.

By these several alterations the area of the county is now 651,954 acres.

Thepopulation in 1801 was 161,567; 1811, 185,487; in 1821, 213,651; in 1831, 237,170; in 1841, 272,202; in 1851, 296,084; in 1861, 339,327; in 1871, 379,394; 1881, 461,914 (males 232,504, females 229,410); in 1891 the boundary of the county having been altered by part of New Mills being annexed from Cheshire, and part of Burton-on-Trent transferred to Staffordshire, the population stood at 520,914 (males 262,529, females 258,385) end the houses inhabited 104,243, uninhabited 5,528 and 647 building. The number of houses in 1881 was, inhabited 92,845, uninhabited 7,111, and 487 building. The shire town (Derby) is 114 miles north-north-west of London. The north part of Derbyshire is the high land of the Peak, from which flow the Dove and the Derwent, which, in the south, fall into the Trent, that river crossing the shire from north-west to south-east, and running towards the North Sea; thus the north is hilly and the south rather flat. The Peak is part of the great chain named the Pennine hills, which are the watershed between the rivers of the east and the west. The greatest elevations in the Peak are-Blakelow Stones, about 1,800 feet high; Kinderscout, rather lower; Madwoman's Stones, 1,880 feet; Black Tor, 1,773 feet; Axe Edge, 1,751; Lord’s Seat, 1,751, and Hay Tor, 1,227. These hills run likewise between the Dove and the Derwent, and others on the east of the Derwent. Oxstones, in the latter hills, is 1,377 feet high, and Orbit Hill, 980 feet high.

Derbyshire seems to have been first held by the Iberians, who gave names to the rivers and hills, and have left many remains of circles, cairns and barrows, or lows, in the upland. The Welch or British tribes, whom the Romans put down, were the Coritani and Cornavii, and the county was made part of the province of Flavia Csesarensis. At Arbelows, or Arberlow, near Winster, is a stone circle. There are many barrows-some called “barrows,” some “buries,” but mostly “lows.”

The names of the barrows are:-Barrow Hill in Hathersage, Barrow-on-Trent, Barrow Green, Norbury, Sudbury, Dalbury, Conksbury, Stansbury, Spilsbury, Shardlow, Croslow, Atlow, Callow (five), Barlow, Baslow, Wardlow, Foolow, Hucklow, Highlow, Groundlow, Drakelow, Broadlow, Blakelow Great Low, Blind Low, Sparklow, Netherlow, Cowlow, Callinglow, and Croxall.

The Romans had a great road, known as Rykneld Street, which crossed the land from Monksbridge, on the Dove, north-east into Yorkshire by Dervantio (Little Chester and Derby) and Lutdurum (Chesterfield). At Brough, in Hope Dale, Buxton, Rocester and Melandra Castle in Glossop, were other Roman stations and roads: at Brough, three sides of the station are perfect; at Melandra Castle part of the ramparts and ditch remain. The other Roman settlements were at Barlborough, Mosborough, Hazleborough, Boroughfields, Over Burrows, Attenborough, Church Broughton, West Broughton, Burton-in-Sutton, Burton Moor, Burbage, Brailsford, Twyford, Longford, Ashford, Cromford, Bamford, Sidford, Watford, Nooningford, Grindleford, Over-in-Monyash, Mickleover, Littleover, Ashover, Bolsover, Birchover, Calwich and Parwich. There are Cold Harbours at Detwich and Wormhill, and a Windy Harbour. The names of the Roman roads in this shire besides Rykneld Street are Portway, Ridgeway-in-Pentrich, Barlow and Eckington, Caway, Troway, Lindway, Bradway, Moorway, Wallway, Cedway, Beggarway, Deveridge and Sketteridge. There is a Coneygre at Pentrich, at North Wingfield, and at Bakewell. The Romans worked the lead mines. The land was afterwards taken by the middle English and shared the lot of the great kingdom of Mercia. Most of the local names are English and there are a few topographical names referring to the religion of Woden. In the time of Ethelred I. the Northmen overran the shire and took Derby, which they long held. It was part of the great federation of the Five Burghs, but there are not so many traces of the Northmen as elsewhere north of the Trent.

There are eight places with names ending in “by,” two in “with,” one in “toft” (Hardstoft), and two or three in “holme.” Repton church is thought to be part of the old abbey, burned in 874 by the Northmen; Melbourne church is Norman. The finest churches are-All Saints’, Derby; Ashbome, Bakewell, Chesterfield, and Dronfield. Derbyshire took part in the Parliamentary War. In 1745, the Young Pretender marched as far south as Derby, but retreated from there. There are no great establishments of learning or remarkable works of antiquity in Derbyshire, but Derby is a great seat of trade, and the baths at Buxton and Matlock, and the dales of the Dove, the Derwent and the Wye are great places of resort. There are remains of castles of the barons, as the Peak Castle, Codnor and Duffield. The mansion of the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth, and Haddon Hall, the ancient seat of the Dukes of Rutland, are much visited.

Derbyshire to the south of Ashbome, Duffield and Sandiacre, belongs to the new red sandstone formation or Ted marl, but near Ashby-de-la-Zouch are coal beds; gympsum, or plaster of paris, used for potters’ moulds and other purposes, is found between the Derwent and the Trent, 10,514 tons being raised in 1897. Of other minerals are barytes, of which 259 tons were raised in 1897 5 fire clay 61,280 tons; brick clay 294,506 tons; gypsum 10,514 tons. The north of Derbyshire belongs to the magnesian limestone and the coal-measures, and coal, ironstone and Limestone are found over the greater part of East Derbyshire. Coal is likewise found between Ashbome and Derby; 12,648,419 tons were raised in 1897, valued at £3,478,315. The north-west of Derbyshire is filled with the carboniferous or mountain limestone, and where it crops out at the edge the lead mines are found. In the limestone are many caverns. Warm springs are found at Matlock, Buxton, Stoney Middleton, and Bradwell; at Kedlestone Park is a sulphurous spring. Derbyshire is much occupied in coal, iron and lime mining, likewise in lead mining. The make of pig iron (including Nottinghamshire) was 488,472 tons in 1897, 33 blast furnaces being in work. The other materials wrought are iron ore (4,600 tons), iron pyrites (1,763 tons), lead ore (5,157 tons), zinc, manganese ore, ochre and timber, black marble, grindstones, and fluor spar. The production of stone included in 1897 4,673 tons of chert and flint, 35,896 tons of gravel and sand, 1,728,340 tons of limestone, and 108,425 tons of sandstone. Derbyshire contains gold in small quantities.

The Peak land is very barren and in it very much rain falls, but in the south is very rich land. There is much grazing and dairy land. Oxen are fattened, and good cheese is made. Wheat is grown, likewise oats, barley, and potatoes. There are not many great woods, but poles and other timber are grown for the mines. Derbyshire is rather a manufacturing and a mining shire than agricultural; it shares in the manufactures of Derby, Nottingham, Sheffield and Manchester. The great seat of manufactures is, however, round Derby; the productions are silk at Derby, calico printing, cotton yarn, cotton and silk hosiery, flax, lace, net, candlewicks, paper, earthenware, fire bricks, wrought marble, gunpowder for mining, scythes, sickles, spades, shovels, tools, needles, combs, and copperas. The chief seats of industry are Derby, Belper, Glossop, Chesterfield, Duffield, Dronfield, Eckington, Bakewell, Ironville, Hathersage and Staveley; sanitary ware and earthenware are made at Swadlincote and Church Gresley. There is a good deal of malting and brewing.

The streams of the north-west are tributary to the Mersey, and those of the north-east to the Don, but all the others to the Trent, which, like the Don, falls into the Humber. The Trent runs through Burton and Barrow, being navigable for about 31 miles in Derbyshire. The upper streams of the Trent flow through narrow and beautiful dales in the hills, which afterwards widen out: these dales are sometimes very deep, with steep cliffs on each side. The Dove rises on the slope of Axe Edge and flows southerly past Longnor and Ashbome, where it takes the Par and the Schoo, or Henmoor, to Uttoxeter, and thence it bends easterly towards the Trent, taking several streams from the north; it is about 45 miles long. The Derwent rises in the far north and flows south, throughout having many feeders; some of the earliest are the West End, the Alport, the Ashop, the Noe, the Burbage, and the Bur: its first great feeder is the Wye, which comes from the west past Buxton and Bakewell. The Derwent flows by Matlock, Cromford and Belper, taking the Amber, the Ecclesbourn and the Kalbourn to Derby, whence it flows south-easterly to the Trent, after a course of 65 miles, being navigable below Derby. The Erewash rises in Nottinghamshire and flows 20 miles to the Trent, being the boundary between the two shires. The Mease is a small river flowing through the south, and joining the Trent soon after it comes into Derbyshire. The Goyt rises near Axe Edge and joins the Etherow, into which many brooks flow from the Peak.

The Rother, or Hipper, rises near Chatsworth Park, rung to Chesterfield, and then flows north-east into Yorkshire, taking the Dawley from Bolsover. The Sheaf, Wallin, Poulter and Ryton rise to the west of the Rother and run towards the Don. Many of the rivers are used to supply canals. The Trent and Mersey Canal, or Grand Trunk Canal, begins at Wilden Ferry, on the Trent, near the mouth of the Derwent, and is carried toward the Dove, and thence into Staffordshire and Cheshire. The Derby Canal joins Derby to the Grand Trunk Canal at Swarkstone, and to the Erewash Canal at Sandiacre. The Erewash Canal goes from the Trent up the valley of the Erewash, and joins the Cromford Canal, and has a branch named the Nutbrook Canal. The Cromford Canal begins at the top of the Erewash, crosses by Codnor to Ambergate and Cromford, having a branch to Pinxton. The Chesterfield Canal begins at Chesterfield, and follows the valley of the Rother to Killamarsh, and thence joins the Lower Trent below Gainsborough.

Derbyshire is well supplied with railways, which belong mostly to the Midland Company, the town of Derby being the great centre; the line to the north of England enters the county from Leicestershire, passing through Loughborough to Trent Junction and to Derby, with a branch from Trent to Nottingham, another to Melbourne, and one to Kirkby on the Mansfield line; after passing Derby the line continues to Duffield, Belper, Ambergate Junction, Clay Cross and Chesterfield to Sheffield, Leeds and Glasgow, passing through Derbyshire, from south to north; from Ambergate junction is the line across the north-western portion of the county to Matlock, Bakewell, Buxton, Chapel-en-le-Frith and New Mills, thence to Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester. The line along the Erewash valley starts from Trent, and proceeds to Long Eaton, Ilkeston Junction, Alfreton, Clay Cross and Chesterfield, and has branches to Ambergate, Bulwell and Mansfield; the Mansfield and Worksop line skirts the county on the north-east. From Derby, lines to Burton-on-Trent and Birmingham, to Ashby-de-la-Zouch, to Castle Donington and to Ripley, all start. From Duffield is a branch to Wirksworth. From Dore and Totley station on the main line a branch runs to the Manchester line at Chinley; at the Dore end is a tunnel upwards of four miles in length; and another tunnel is 3,520 yards long at Cowburn, near Chinley end. There are several tramways to the collieries. The Great Central railway (late the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire) have constructed a line giving a direct main system to London, leaves Manchester and skirts the north-western part of the shire, with a branch to Glossop, thence continuing to Sheffield, Chesterfield, and southward to the Metropolis, which line was opened in 1899, their extension passing en route through Nottingham, Loughborough and Leicester; the line to Hull passes on the north-east from Sheffield to Worksop. The district traversed is full of collieries and iron works, and comprises a coalfield estimated to contain no less than 800 million tons of coal. The North Staffordshire railway skirts the south-western border, and sends a branch to Ashbome. The Great Northern crosses the county from Nottingham, passing through Ilkeston and Derby to the North Staffordshire railway.

The Cromford and High Peak Railway (now the property of the London and North Western Company) runs between the Cromford canal and the Midland railway and the Peak Forest canal at Whaley, in Cheshire, passing near Buxton and Chapel-en-le-Frith, its length being about 33 miles: the line was opened in 1830, being one of the first constructed in the kingdom, and was made to run over the hills, rather than in the valleys, as is now the custom: there are several inclined planes, which are worked by stationary engines; and the greatest length of level upon which locomotives run is between Hopton and Hurdlow, a distance of 12 miles. From the Cromford canal to the Hopton level, a distance of little over three miles, the line reaches an elevation (by means of three inclines) of 800 feet.

Passenger traffic is only carried as far south as Parsley Hay, from which the London and North Western railway are making a new line, about 13 miles in length, to Ashbome, on the North Staffordshire railway. The Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway from Chesterfield is at present only constructed as far as Lincoln; it has stations in this county at Bolsover, Scarcliff and Langwith Junction, at which latter station a branch line comes in from Killamarsh, having stations at Spink and Clowne.

Derbyshire is in the midland circuit, having its shire town at Derby. The county has a court of quarter sessions, and is divided into 16 petty sessional divisions; it is in the province of Canterbury, diocese of Southwell, except 6 parishes, 3 of which are in Peterborough and 3 in Lichfield diocese, forms an archdeaconry, subdivided into the rural deaneries of Alfreton, Ashbome, Bakewell, Buxton, Chesterfield, Derby, Dronfield, Duffield, Eyam, Glossop, Ilkeston, Longford, Melbourne, Repton, Staveley and Wirksworth. The number of civil parishes is 310. Appletree hundred and the honour of Tutbury are parts of the Duchy of Lancaster, and local courts are held at Sudbury and Tutbury. The lead mining districts have their own courts, called barmotes, with jurisdiction over mines, at Monyash and Wirksworth. The hundreds are: —

The population of the chief towns in 1891 was as follows:-The borough of Derby, in the municipal and parliamentary borough, 94,146; Glossop municipal borough, 22,416; Chesterfield, 22,009 and Ilkeston, 19,744; other towns-Alfreton, 15,355 Ashbome, 3,809; Bakewell, 2,748; Belper, 10,420; Buxton, 7,540; Clay Cross, 7,727; Dronfield, 3,438; Matlock, 5,285; Matlock Bath, 1,846; Melbourne, 3,369; New Mills, 6,661; Ripley, 6,813; Staveley, 2,363; Tideswell, 1,936; Wirksworth, 3,725.

The Registration districts are: —

The County Lunatic Asylum, Mickleover, near Derby, about 1 mile south-west from that village and 2 miles from the Great Northern railway station, is a building in the Elizabethan style, constructed of red brick, with portions of blue Staffordshire brick and stone dressings, standing on rising ground and having a southern aspect, overlooking the valley of the Trent, the Charnwood hills, Needwood and portions of Nottinghamshire and Staffordshire, and is surrounded by an estate of 120 acres; the building was opened 21 Aug. 1851, the total cost, including additions, has been about £120,000; it contains 20 wards and is available for 609 patients, there being in 1899, 595; the asylum includes a large entertainment room and dining hall, to seat 250 persons, and also a chapel with 300 sittings: in 1879 a water tower was erected, capable of holding 20,000 gallons; Henry Deeley esq. chairman; John F. Thurlby, treasurer; Richard John Legge M.D., L.R.C.S.Irel. medical superintendent; Edmund William Gregor L.R.C.P.Lond., M.R.C.S.Eng. and Sydney Robert Merry L.S.A. assistant medical officers; Rev. Reginald Canning Bindley M.A. chaplain; Benjamin Scott Currey, clerk to the committee of visitors; William Davie, clerk and steward to the asylum; Alexander McWilliams, resident engineer; Miss A. B. Nightingale, housekeeper; J. J. Mordy and Miss Harriet Kendrick, chief attendants.

The Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, at Derby, was rebuilt in 1891, the foundation stone of the new institution being laid on 21st May by Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen (who subsequently commanded that is should be known as the “Royal” instead of the “General Infirmary). The administrative blocks and two of the ward blocks were opened by the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire on the 7th July, 1894. The hospital is built on the Pavilion principal with a connecting glass corridor. There is a separate building for the nursing staff, opened by Miss Wilmot, 29 June, 1893. The number of in-patients admitted during the year ended 28th Sept. 1898, was 1,588, and of out-patients, 4,855; in the Eye department 161 in-patients and 2,176 out-patients were under treatment during the same period; there were also 3,228 casualty medical and surgical cases, 609 eye and 999 dental cases.

Her Majesty’s Prison, built in 1827, at a cost of £65,000, occupies a site of about 6 acres, in South street, near the Friar gate, Derby, and is a building with a front elevation in the Grecian-Doric style: it consists of a central block with radiating wings, in which are comprised the cells, workshops, and other apartments, with airing yards between: the prison is capable of holding 380 prisoners. Captain Charles E. Farquharson, governor; Rev. James Hart Johnson B.A. chaplain; Charles Augustus Greaves M.B., LL.B, surgeon.

Trent College, standing 1 mile from Long Eaton, and 2 miles from Trent station of the Midland railway, is a noble structure of red brick with stone dressings, in the Tudor style, with a lofty clock tower rising from the centre, and standing in well wooded grounds of 33 acres: the foundation stone was laid by the late Duke of Devonshire in 1866, and the college was open in 1868: the building comprises two large schoolrooms, a dining hall, science museum, gymnasium, dormitories and baths, two libraries, and class-rooms; a school chapel, which was erected and consecrated in 1875, is of brick with stone dressings, in the Gothic style of the 13th century, consisting of apsidal chancel, nave, organ chamber, and south transept, and has several stained windows: headmaster, Rev. John S. Tucker M.A. Baliol College, Oxford; second master, Abraham Shuker M.A. of St. John’s College, Cambridge, with a staff of resident masters.

Parliamentary Representation of Derbyshire

Derbyshire formerly returned six members in three division's, but under the provisions of the “Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885,” the county now returns seven members in seven divisions.

No. 1.-The High Peak division comprises the sessional divisions of Buxton, Chapel-en-le-Frith, and Glossop and the municipal borough of GIosscp.

No. 2.-The North-Eastern division comprises the sessional division of Eckington and the parishes of Bolsover, Staveley, and Whittington in Chesterfield sessional divisions.

No. 3.-The Chesterfield division comprises the sessional division of Chesterfield (except so much as is comprised in division No. 2), the municipal borough of Chesterfield and the parishes of Ashover, Clay Lane and Stretton in Alfreton sessional division.

No. 4.-The Western division comprises the sessional divisions of Appletree, Bakewell and Ashbome (except the parish of Mercaston) and Bakewell and Wirksworth.

No. 5.-The Mid division comprises the sessional divisions of Alfreton (except so much as is comprised in division No. 3) and Belper.

No. 6.-Ilkeston division comprises the sessional division of Smalley and the parishes of Breaston, Draycott and Wilne, Hopwell, Long Eaton, Ockbrook, Risley and Sawley and Wilsthorpe.

No. 7.-The Southern division comprises the sesfiional divisions of Derby (except so much as is comprised in division No. 6), and Repton and Swadlincote and the municipal borough of Derby and the parish of Mercaston in Ashbome sessional division.

Military

The troops stationed in Derbyshire are comprised in the North-Eastern District.

Head Quarters, York.

Derby is the depot of the Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment) or Regimental District No. 45, consisting of the 1st battalion (45th foot) & 2nd battalion (95th foot) & the 1st & 2nd Derby Militia & the Royal Sherwood Foresters Militia (consolidated into one battalion), constituting its 3rd & 4th battalions; the head quarters of the 3rd are at Derby, & of the 4th at Newark.

Yeomanry Cavalry

6th YEOMANRY BRIGADE.

Brigade Office, 48 Lincoln street, Leicester.

Brigade Office, 48 Lincoln street, Leicester.

Commanding Brigade, The Senior Commanding Officer.

Brigade Adjutant, Capt. C. T. McM. Kavanagh (10th Hussars.)

Assistant Brigade Adjutant, Capt. C. T. Dugdale (Derbyshire Yeomanry.)

Derbyshire Yeomanry Cavalry.

Volunteer Infantry Brigades

The Cheshire Brigade.

Head Quarters, Chester.

Commanding Brigade, The Officer Commanding 22nd Regimental District Brigade.

Supply & Transport Officer, Major E. Hall, jun. 1st V. E. Chesh. Reg.

Senior Medical Officer, Brigade-Surgeon-Lieiit.-Col. .A. Hamilton F.R.C.S.Edin., V.D. 2nd V.B. Chesh. Reg. 4th Volunteer Battalion Cheshire Regiment; head quarters, Stockport.

The North Midland Brigade.

Head quarters. Drill hall, Derby.

Commanding the Brigade, Col. Viscount Newark M.P.

Aide-de-Camp, Capt. R. C. Otter, 4th V. B. Derbysh. Reg.

Comprising the following battalions: —

1st Vol. Batt. Lincolnshire Regiment; head quarters, Lincln.

2nd Vol. Batt, Lincolnsh. Regiment; head quarters, Grnthm.

1st Vol. Batt. Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment); head quarters, Derby.

2nd Vol. Batt. Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment); head quarters, Chesterfield.

1st Nottingham (Robin Hood), Volunteer Rifle Corps; head quarters, Nottingham.

4th (Nottingham) Vol. Batt. Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment); head quarters, Newark Supply Detachment Bearer Company.

1st Volunteer Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment), Companies A, B, C, D, H, I, K; head quarters, Royal Drill hall, Becket street, Derby.

2nd Volunteer Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment); head quarters, Drill hall, Chesterfield.

Fairs & Markets

Alfreton, July 31, for cattle & horses; October 7 & November 24; market days, Friday & Saturday Ashbome, for cattle, sheep & horses every alternate Thursday. Old Charted fairs, February 13, May 21, August 16, October 20, November 29 & December 15 (statutes.) Cheese fairs, second Tuesday in March &. first Tuesday in September & Tuesday before November 11. Should any of the above fairs fall on Sunday the fair is held on the following day, except November 29, when the fair is held on the previous day. A fair for horses is held the day previous to the February, August & October fairs; market day, Saturday.

Ashover, April 25 & October 15 for cattle & the Monday before Martinmas day (in November) for hiring, servants.

Bakewell, Easter Monday & Whit Monday for horses, cattle & cheese, Monday before August 26, Monday after October 10 & Monday after November 11. Market on Monday for corn & cattle, & butter on Friday.

Belper, October 31 for cattle, & November 1 for hiring servants. Provision market every Saturday.

Biggin, Tuesday before the second Wednesday in September & October 3 (unless it falls on Sunday, in which case it is held on the 4th) for cattle.

Buxton, on Monday before Old Candlemas day, April 1, May 2, Monday before the second Wednesday in September & October 28 for cattle; when April 1, May 2 & October 28 fall on Sunday the fair is held on the Saturday preceding.

Castleton, third Wednesday in March, April 21, first Wednesday in October & third Wednesday in November.

Chapel-en-le-Frith, wool fair, July 7; cattle market 1st & 3rd Thursday of each month.

Chesterfield, January 27, February 28, first Saturday in April, May 4 for cattle, July 5 (principally for wool) & September 25 cattle, & November 25 for hiring servants. Market day, Saturday.

Crich, April 6 & October 11 for sheep & cattle. Market day, Friday.

Derby, Friday after January 6, January 25, March 21, 22 & 23, Friday after May 1, Easter Friday, Whit Friday & July 25; first Tuesday in February, April, June, August & October for cheese. Market days, Tuesday & Friday.

Dronfield, April 25 for cattle & Nov. 3 for hiring servants.

Long Eaton, market day, Saturday.

Eckington, market day, Friday.

Glossop, May 6, first Wednesday on or after October 10 for horses & cattle. Market day, Saturday.

Hathersage, first Friday after the nearest Sunday to Old Michaelmas day.

Hayfield, May 12 & October 10 for cattle.

Heanor, Thursday before Martinmas day. Market day Sat.

Higham, Wednesday after New Year’s day for cattle.

Hope, May 13 for cattle. Cattle market, first Wednesday in every month.

Ilkeston, first Thursday after October 11 for hiring servants. Market day, Thursday.

Ironville, market day, Saturday.

Kirk Ireton, second Wednesday in April & first wednesday after October 11 for cattle.

Matlock, February 25, April 2, May 9 & October 24 for cattle & sheep. Market day, alternate Thursday.

New Mills, May 11 & October 7 for cattle South Normanton, market day, Saturday.

Ripley, Wednesday in Easter week & the Thursday nearest October 23, & two following days. Market day, Sat.

Somercotes, market every Friday.

Swadlincote, market Saturday.

Tideswell, March 24, May 15, last Wednesday in July, second Wednesday in September & October 29 for cattle, horses & pigs. Market day, Wednesday; cattle market, second Wednesday in every month.

Wirksworth, Shrove Tuesday, Easter Tuesday, Tuesday before May 9, second Tuesday in July & September & third Tuesday in November, principally for cattle; the latter is also a statute fair. Market day Tuesday, for provisions & corn.

The following Table shows the acreage under each kind of crop, and the number of horses, cattle, sheep and pigs the county of Derby as taken from the Agricultural Returns, 1898: —

Derby County Council

Local Government Act, 1888, 51 & 52 Vic. c. 41.

Under the above Act, Derbyshire, after the 1st April, 1889, for the purposes of the Act, except a certain borough for which see below (a), became a separate and distinct administrative county (sec. 461-b) governed by a County Council, consisting of chairman, aldermen and councillors elected in maimer prescribed by the Act (sec. 2).

The chairman, by virtue of his office, is a justice of the peace for the county, without qualification (sec. 46).

The police for the county is under the control of a standing joint committee of the Quarter Sessions and the County Council, appointed as therein mentioned (sec. 9).

The coroners for the county are elected by the County Council, and the clerk of the peace appointed by such joint committee, and may be removed by them (sec.83—2).

The clerk of the peace for the county is clerk of the County Council (sec. 83—1).

The administrative business of the county (which would, if this Act had not been passed, have been transacted by the justices) is now transacted by the County Council.

(a) The following large borough is for the purposes of this Act, an administrative county in itself, called a County Borough (sec. 30), of which the municipal authority has the power of a County Council (sec. 31)-Derby.

General Meetings in months of January, April, July &; October & statutory meeting in March. Held at County Hall, St. Mary’s gate, Derby.