NewboldExtract from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831.Transcribed by Mel Lockie, © Copyright 2010 Lewis Topographical Dictionaries NEWBOLD, a hamlet in the parish of CHESTERFIELD, hundred of SCARSDALE, county of DERBY, 1¼ mile (N.W.) from Chesterfield, containing, with Dunstan, 962 inhabitants. A school-house was erected by the Executors of George Milnes, Esq., who endowed it with land producing an annual income of £23. 8., for which about fifteen children are instructed. An almshouse was founded, in 1781, by Mrs. Elizabeth Tomlinson, who endowed it with £400 four per cents., for the maintenance of three poor women. |
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