A topographical dictionary of England Volume 4; comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate & market towns ...& the islands of ... illustrated by maps of the different c

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 edition. Excerpt: ...contributed to the extension and improvement of the town. The market is on Thursday, the first Thursday in every month being noted for the sale of cattle. Fairs are held on the Thursday before Easter and September 27th, the latter continuing three days. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed with £600 private benefaction, £800 royal bounty, and £2000 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Rochdale. The chapel, rebuilt about 1770, on the site of a more ancient one, is dedicated to St. Mary, and is situated on an eminence near the centre of the town. A new chapel is being erected, at an estimated expense of between £4000 and £5000, towards defraying which His Majesty's commissioners for building new churches have granted about £ 3600, the remainder to be raised by subscription among the inhabitants: it is to contain one thousand two hundred and fifty-five sittings, four hundred and fifty-five of them free, and, on its completion, will supersede the old chapel, which will be abandoned. There are places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, Wesleyan Methodists, and those of the New Connexion, and Unitarians, to all of which Sunday schools are attached, except that of the Society of Friends, who support day schools for the poor of their own communion. A school, adjoining the chapelyard, was endowed, in 1713, with the sum of £100, contributed by the Rev. Richard Clegg, and £50 voluntary subscriptions: the majority of the freeholders appoint the master, who has the gratuitous use of the schoolhouse: four children, two of them elected by the holders of two particular farms, and two by the inhabitants, are taught free. TODRIDGE,...