HURST is a hamlet, 4 miles north-west from the church, and has a small Wesleyan chapel. The lead, mines here, the property of E. F. Riddell-Blount esq. are not now worked; the shaft has a depth from the summit level of 60 fathoms and the yield was formerly from 66 to 72 per cent.: it is supposed that these mines are the oldest in the kingdom, and that this place was one of the penal Settlements to which Roman convicts were sent to labour: a piece of lead bearing the name “Adrian,” discovered some time since in one of the workings, is now in the British Museum. Cheque is 1 ½ miles east, and Shaw 3 ½ north.

Public Elementary school, erected in 1880, at a cost of £1,150, for 78 children; average attendance, 12.