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Shelford (St. Peter and St. Paul)

SHELFORD (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the union of Bingham, S. division of the wapentake of Bingham and of the county of Nottingham, 8 miles (E. N. E.) from Nottingham; containing, with the township of Saxondale, and part of that of Newton, 808 inhabitants, of whom 547 are in Shelford township. The parish comprises by measurement 3598 acres, and forms a portion of the vale of the Trent; that river bounds it on the west and north, and the Fosse-road touches its south-eastern boundary. The manor-house was garrisoned by Colonel Stanhope, son of the first earl of Chesterfield, for Charles I., and was taken by storm by Colonel Hutchinson, for the parliament, after a gallant resistance, during which Colonel Stanhope and most of his men were slain. A few persons are employed in frame-work knitting. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £60; patron, the Earl of Chesterfield. The church is a handsome structure in the later English style; it is the burial-place of the noble family of Stanhope, and contains the remains of Philip, the accomplished Earl of Chesterfield, who died in 1773. A priory in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary (was established here in the time of Henry II., by Ralph Hanselyn, and at the Dissolution had a revenue of £151. 14. 1. An hospital called the Bede Houses, was founded and endowed in 1694, by Sir William Stanhope, for the reception and support of six of his decayed tenants. Shelford gives the inferior title of Baron to the family.

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

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