Pleasley manor   circa 1840  (JST)

1803

• Coal proved by a borehole 1/4 mile north of Pleasley bridge.
• Hollins Co. install a Boulton and Watt steam engine in the lower mill in Pleasley Vale

1809

• Bache Thornhill gives Pleasley Manor to his eldest son - Henry Bache Thornhill (who had married Helen Pole in 1801)

1811

• Pleasley parish (Pleasley, Shirebrook, Stoney Houghten) contained about 90 houses

1816

• Sunday, March 17th.  Earthquake felt throught the East Midlans causes large crack in tower of St Michael’s church in Pleasley

1821

• Henry Bache Thornhill makes a will - which included his fathers estate in anticipation of his future inheritance.

1822

• Henry Bache Thornhill dies but his father is still alive and Pleasley Manor has to be sold in order to provide for his wife and family.

1823

• Pleasley Manor auctioned at the Swan Inn, Mansfield and purchased by William Edward Nightingale for £38,000 - with the exception of the two  cotton mills, their  dams and 15 acres of land in Pleasley Vale - these were still under lease to Hollins Co.

1824

• Sale of Pleasley Manor to W. E. Nightingale completed.

1828

• The two  cotton mills, their dams and 15 acres of land in Pleasley Vale were bought by the Hollins Company for £7,600 when the lease expired.

1839

• Hollins Co. purchase a “gas apparatus” in order to produce their own gas light for the Pleasley Vale mills. They later supplied gas to Pleasley Colliery and to Pleasley village.

1840

• Hollins’ upper mill in Pleasley Vale destroyed by fire on Dec. 25th.

1844

• Hollins’ lower mill in Pleasley Vale destroyed by fire during the summer.

Part of Pleasley manor   circa 1845  (JST)

1843

• Pleasley township / manor:
• Rector:                                                                        Rev James Richard Holden
• Advowson (right of appointment of Rector):      William Pole Thornhill
• Lord of the manor:                                                   W. E.  Nightingale
• Arable land  :                       748a  0r  6p                 (WEN)
• Meadow and Pasture :       163a  2r  20p               (WEN)
• Woodland:                            218a 0r 14p              (WEN)
• Roads and sites of houses:   39a  1r 16p              (WEN)
• Glebe land:                              55a                              (JRH)
• Tithes:
• calf =  3d
• bee swarm = 1d
• pig litter 1 - 5 =  1/2 pig
• pig litter 6 - ? = 1 pig
• lambs 1 - 4  = no thithe
• lambs 5 - ?  = same as pigs

1851

• “Pleasley parish contained 126 houses and a population of 654. W.E. Nightingale was lord of the manor and principle landowner at Pleasley township.”

1874

• Jan 10th. W.E. Nightingale dies in a fall downstairs at his home in Embley Pleasley manor then passes to his daughter Parthenon, now married to Sir Harry Verney.

1881

• the population was 1152.

Bibliography and references:

Agriculture of Derbyshire Vol 1  J. Farey 1811

 

Pleasley- a description from Pigot’s directory 1835

 

Whites 1857 directory of Derbyshire Parishes

 

Pleasley- extract from National Gazetteer 1868

 

The Andrews Pages: Kelley Directory, 1891

 

The Andrews Pages: Derbyshire Parishes

 

Hollins, A Study of Industry 1784-1949,  Stanley Pigott 1949

 

1843 Tithe Map and Allocations,  Derbyshire Records Office, Matlock

 

Parishes: Packington - Repton', Magna Britannia: volume 5: Derbyshire (1817), pp. 228-46