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Newbold, with Dunstan

NEWBOLD, with Dunstan, a township, in the parish and union of Chesterfield, hundred of Scarsdale, N. division of the county of Derby, 1¼ mile (N. W.) from Chesterfield; containing 1527 inhabitants. The manor of Newbold, at Domesday survey, was parcel of the demesne of the crown. At the Dissolution, it was part of the estate of Beauchief Abbey, and appears to have been granted to Sir William West, whose son sold it in 1570 to the Eyre family: the manor was afterwards exchanged with the Duke of Portland. The township comprises 3002 acres. Newbold village is situated on a considerable elevation, commanding extensive views over a well-wooded and highly cultivated country. There are extensive coal and iron mines, and several manufactories of brown earthenware and stone bottles. A Methodist place of worship was built in 1842. A school-house was erected by the executors of George Milnes, Esq., who endowed it with land producing an income of £23. 8.; and an almshouse was founded in 1781, by Mrs. Elizabeth Tomlinson, who endowed it with £400 four per cents., for three women.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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