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Matlock, Derbyshire
Matlock became famous for hydropathy cures in the nineteenth century


The town's population expanded enormously after the railway line opened.
Each part of the modern town has its own history and unique characteristics.

Matlock's history is discussed below under the following sub headings:

  Panoramic View of Matlock, from Riber Hillside
Matlock - from Riber Hillside


Matlock Bath
(with Scarthin Nick)
The following may be of interest
Biographies
Flooding
Images
Miscellany
References
Books & Other Publications
Water Cures
Bank Road & the Tram
"The Varied Fortunes of a Derbyshire Spa"
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grey button About the Parish - over 110 years ago : an extract from Kelly's 1891 Directory[1891]

'Matlock is an extensive parish in the Western division of the county [Derbyshire], hundred and county court district of Wirksworth, petty sessional division of Wirksworth, Bakewell union, rural deanery of Bakewell, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell.

Matlock Old Town is half a mile south east of Matlock Bridge station on the Midland railway, 148½ miles from London, 16½ miles north-by west from Derby, 10 south-west-by-south from Chesterfield, 10 south-east from Bakewell, 10 from Belper, 4 north-by north-east from Wirksworth, 66 from Rugby, 46 from Leicester, 23½ from Loughborough, 32 from Nottingham, 65¼ from Lincoln, 164 from Bath, 59 from Birmingham, 107 from Cheltenham, 69½ from Leeds, 294¾ from Edinburgh, 56 from Melton, 40¾ from Sheffield, 49¾ from Doncaster and 83¾ from York.

The parish is divided into several districts or localities, the principal of which are Matlock Bath, Matlock Bank, Matlock Bridge and Matlock Town and Green. The trustees of the late William Pole Thornhill esq. and others are trustees for the copyholders, who are lords of the manor. The landowners are Frederic Charles Arkwright esq. J.P. of Willersley, Samuel Smith esq. the Rev. Charles Wolley-Dod M.A. of Edgehall, Malpas, and numerous freeholders. The land is chiefly pasture; soil and subsoil limestone and gritstone.

The area in acres is 4,491 acres of land and 48 of water; rateable value £31, 977; the population in 1861, including Matlock Bath, Matlock Bank, Matlock Bridge, Riber, Scarthin Nick and Starkholmes, was 4,252, in 1871 was 5,220 and in 1881 was 6,093.'

Also see:
Miscellany - for information on: The Manor of Matlock | Nineteenth century expansion, population and councils | Matlock in the Domesay Book


grey button Matlock Bank & Moor

Bank Road and Crown Square, Matlock
© Ann Andrews
Bank Road, formerly Dob Lane, from Crown Square © Ann Andrews
The lower part of Bank Road was included under Matlock Bridge in old Trades Directories

Matlock Bank spreads across the steep hillside, rising to quite an altitude!  Anyone walking up the hill from the bottom for the first time will find it quite a climb. At the centre is Smedley Street, a long street crossing the hillside from east to west. Smedley Street was named after John Smedley, the mill owner, hydro pioneer and later castle builder. His single mindedness and idealism put Matlock Bank on the map as little existed on the Bank before the railway line opened and Smedley began building. What he started, others emulated.

So the hydro building, and the subsequent popularity of the various treatments, was responsible for the massive development of this part of the town. J. B. Firth, writing in 1908, said: 'Fifty or sixty years ago Matlock Bank was a bare expanse with few houses' (p.389)[1]. To modern residents and visitors this may be hard to believe. However, Kelly's Directory of 1848 described Matlock Bank as 'a hamlet in this parish[1848]' [Matlock] and Francis White, in his Sheffield Directory of 1862, said the Bank contained 'many scattered houses[2]'.

Smedley's Hydro, now the County Hall, became very famous and was hugely successful; it was the largest hydropathic establishment of the many in Matlock. At one stage in the town's history there were some twenty hydros where people could stay and be (hopefully) cured from their various ailments. This was the place to go for your health cure in Victorian England and hydropathy brought business and prosperity, though not to all.

In their heyday almost all of the large Hydropathic Establishments of Matlock were to be found on the Bank. Some sixteen lodging houses and apartments complemented the hydros, providing cheaper accommodation for visitors. These including the 'Duke of Wellington' Public House and the 'Gate Inn and Livery Stables'. There were and still are shops to support the Bank's community on the Smedley Street, many close to Smedley's Hydro, though there are fewer of them these days than there were when hydropathy treatments were in fashion.

Addresses included in Matlock Bank are Lime Tree Hill (named after a very long lived tree), The Dimple, Jackson Road, Rutland Street and Wellington Street. Matlock Moor goes on from Matlock Bank, along the top of the hill towards Chesterfield. Bank Road, formerly known as Dob(b) Lane, goes straight down from Smedley Street to Crown Square and Matlock Bridge, the centre of the modern Matlock.

The photograph (at the top of this section) is of the view from Crown Square looking up Bank Road and shows how steep the road is. Little wonder that in the nineteenth century Job Smith thought a tramway was a good idea as a means for people to get up and down from Smedley Street to Crown Square and Matlock Bridge. Matlock was the home of the steepest tramway in the world, which ran for over thirty four years.The large stone building on the left of the photo used to be the main part of the Crown Hotel, but the hotel has moved slightly in recent years.

In 1891 there was a town crier - Robert J. Staniford - who lived on Smedley Street. The Regiment known as the Sherwood Foresters (Derbys Reg) were based in Matlock Bank in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Whilst the principal employers in Matlock Bank and Matlock Moor were the hydropathic establishments, the lodging houses and community of small shopkeepers, there were a few others advertising in Kelly's (1908) Directory[1908]. George Drabble, the timber merchant, lived at The Limes; H. Hand & Son, jobmasters, were at the Gate livery stables; John William Wildgoose, builder & contractor, was at Rutland street; the premises of William Hy. Potter, the hosiery manufacturer, were on the Dimple and Hurd, Sons & Co.. nurserymen, were at the Portland Grange nurseries.

   
  • MATLOCK BANK - situated on the sloping side of a lofty eminence about half-a-mile to the east [of Matlock Bridge], is the creation of the second half of the present century. Fifty years ago a cottage or two were the only habitations on the hillside where now stand many palatial buildings and handsome villas. Here HYDROPATHY, as now practised, had its earliest home. Its initial stage was on a very limited scale; but from this mean and insignificant beginning has arisen perhaps the largest and most magnificent hydropathic establishment in the world'.

    "History, Topography and Directory of Derbyshire" (1895) by T. Bulmer and Co, p.417, Matlock
    (Contributed by Sonia Addis-Smith)

List of Hydropathic Establishments in 1891
"There Was Red Tape at Smedley's Hydro Then"

Bank Road and the Tram
Matlock: Looking towards Hackney
Claremont, and Mr. Rowland
Matlock: General View, about 1914
Matlock Bank and the Hall Leys

Also on this website see:
All Saints' Church
All Saints' School & Ernest Bailey Grammar School
See QuickList for trade directories and census returns
Rockside Hydro - "Watered-Down Future for a glorious icon of the age of the hydro"

Darley is the parish adjacent to Matlock Bank : Hackney and Hackney Lane are in Darley.
Kellys 1891 Directory of Darley


grey button Matlock Bridge

Matlock Town Hall, photographed by
Paul Kettle
Matlock Town Hall © Paul Kettle

Matlock Bridge developed from a small hamlet into the business area, centred around the mediaeval stone bridge that spans the River Derwent. This, historically, was one of the few crossing points along the length of the river. The bridge dates from the fifteenth century and has four arches; it was widened in 1904[1941]. There is a painting, entitled 'The Bridge at Matlock', by the English artist Joseph M. W. Turner (1775 - 1851). His subject is one of the many Derbyshire scenes favoured by artists.

Snitterton Road, Bakewell Road, Dale Road, Crown Square and the bottom part of Bank Road are traditionally part of Matlock Bridge, though these days it is not easy to see where Matlock Bridge ended and Matlock Bank began.

The railway station is at Matlock Bridge, though it is now at the end of the line from Derby. In its heyday the line was part of the Midland Railway and trains stopped at the station en route for London and Manchester. It all began in 1849 when the Midland Railway Co. opened a branch line that went from Ambergate to Rowsley, with stations at Matlock Bridge and Matlock Bath. This was later extended further and went as far as Manchester. In 1891 the station manager was John Ashton, but by 1908 he'd been replaced by Joseph Henry Clarke.

It was as a direct result of the railway line and the station that Matlock expanded into the town we know today. There was more space for development here than there was in Matlock Bath and the small hamlets and clutch of houses became part of the modern town.

The photograph on the right was taken from Bank Road, looking down towards Crown Square and the bridge, which is approximately in the centre of the shot. The white building on the far side is on Dale Road and the railway line, which actually goes into a tunnel, is just below the fields, with the station off to the right.

A Market Hall, with Assembly Rooms above it, was opened on Dale Road in 1868.

Kelly's 1908 Directory records that the market was held in 'the lower portion [of the building] every Friday and Saturday[1908]'. Matlock still has its market, but nowdays it isn't on Dale Road. Also to be found on Dale Road at the end of the nineteenth century was Robert Alfred Harker. He was a chemist and druggist and advertised 'Harker's Compound Balsamic Cough Elixir, Quinine and Iron Tonic, Teething and Cooling Powders, three well-tried medicines which should be kept in every house[1908]'.

    Crown Square and Matlock Bridge from Bank Road
© Ann Andrews
Towards Matlock Bridge © Ann Andrews
Shops have changed use as owners have come and gone. Half a century ago there was The Manchester Stores on Dale Road which sold linens; it is now a restaurant. Marsden's was a drapers/clothiers and school outfitters where the little boys went with their mother to be fitted with a 'best' suit in the gentleman's section. Gone, too, is the Picture Palace Cinema and Hunter's. Burgon's, Orme's and the Derwent Valley Co-Operative Society have also disappeared from Crown Square.

Dale Road was developed in the nineteenth century; the Firs Parade shops were built by the local firm of Wildgoose in the twentieth.

Employers in Matlock Bridge, covering a variety of industries, were listed in Kelly's (1908) Directory[1908]. They included Thomas Beck, the stone merchant, Thomas Boden, coal & coke merchant and Walter Drabble & Co. Ltd., (lead mine owners) who were based at Station yard; Constable, Hart & Ltd., (Norman Hart, manager), were operating Cawdor Quarries and Job Greatorex & son were tar paving contractors and quarry owners based on Dale rd.; Hall & Co.were also on Dale road; the Matlock & District Gas Co., (Robert Hall F.S.A.A. sec. ; Thomas Brown manager) had works on Darley road and the Singer Sewing Machine Co. Ltd. (Charles Herbert Buckley, agent), were on both Smedley street & trading in the Market Hall.

Matlock Bridge, late 1880's
One of two early photographs, probably taken only a few months apart, of the Bridge and the Bank
Dale Road 1915
Dale Road & The Old English Hotel
Matlock's Market Hall, Dale Road
Early 20th century photos
Matlock: The Old Bridge

Lead Mining
Stone Quarrying
QuickList for directory entries and census returns
Matlock Lido, "Liquidating a Former Tourist Asset"


Hotels in Matlock Bridge

Some hotel names may have changed and former hotels may have become pubs but the old buildings of the Crown, the Old English (now the Cromwell Hotel) and the Boat House are still in Matlock Bridge. The Crown and the Boat House were well established before hydros were even thought of.

   
Boat House Hotel & River, about 1908
Boat House Hotel & Quarry

During the nineteenth century there were Temperance Leagues and Societies and a Temperance Movement flourished throughout the United Kingdom. The Oxford English Dictionary gives an early example of the Temperance Movement as early as 1836. Matlock was one of many towns to have a Temperance Hotel; it meant that no alcohol was served on the premises. In 1891 the proprietor of Brown's Temperance Hotel on Dale Road was Miss H. Marriott[1891]. The establishment she ran was not licensed as no alcohol would have been available for guests to drink at a Temperance Hotel. This was the only Hydropathic Establishment advertising in this part of Matlock in that year.
See transcripts of more Matlock Bridge entries in Kelly's 1891 Directory


Browns Temperance Hotel
Advertisement from Kellys 1891 Directory
Image © Ann Andrews

The Hall Leys Park


Mr Henry Knowles offered, in February 1898, to transfer to the public the fields known as the Hall Leys and in June of that year the Council gave £500 towards the project. This became a public park, with gardens, promenade, Band Stand and eventually tennis courts, boating lake, bowling, and a children's play area - including a paddling pool and miniature railway along the riverbank.
The Park, 1952. The Hall Leys in 1952, with contemporary description

Up until about 1925 there were three shops between the Park and Crown Square but these were demolished. The tram shelter was moved from the middle of Crown Square to its present position.
See Bank Road & the Tram

Matlock's Band Stand is on the Hall Leys
© Ann Andrews

The Band Stand, which is in the centre of the park, is shown in the photograph above. Matlock's Brass Band have performed here on countless occasions.
Matlock's Brass Band website
Some onsite information about the band

The maker's plate on the Band Stand states that it was made by Lion Foundry, Kirkintilloch. Colin Goodwyn has said that If you go to Kirkintilloch and look in their park, as he has did one evening some years ago, you may be surprised to see an identical Band Stand to the one on the Hall Leys, though in a somewhat better condition. This suggests that, if that town used that particular design themselves, then it must have been the best one that the foundry could supply and that the design Matlock purchased was therefore the "top model".
Hawe Lees, Matlock, showing Bandstand and New Pavilion. Early 20th century crowd listening to a Scottish band

At the end of the path is the footbridge across the river to Dale Road, which has two plaques on it showing the levels flood water reached in the 1960's. The flood water would have covered the floor of the Band Stand.
There is more information about the floods.




grey button Matlock Green & Matlock Town (Old Matlock)

Matlock Green, from Riber Hillside

Matlock Town is 'the older part of the parish' and the oldest buildings are here. It is now a quieter part of the town. On the green beside the church is a lovely stone house that dates from 1681; it was originally Wheatsheaf Farm but has been both a pub and a pottery in the past. The Old Rectory is on Church Street and dates from the late 18th century. The ancient church of St Giles is here too, next to the Wheatsheaf, on the hill going up the from Matlock Green towards Starkholmes. The church overlooks Matlock Dale. Amongst all the local people buried in the churchyard are a number of tombstones commemorating those who did not survive their treatment in the various Hydros (this can also be said of the gravestones at Holy Trinity Matlock Bath). The list of Rectors spans many centuries; the earliest named was alive in 1300. The Matlock War Memorial is also here, and is positioned with a commanding view of the modern town.

Matlock Green is in the valley below Matlock Town and with Lime Tree Hill and Matlock Bank rising up on the other side. This is where the corn mills and bleach works of Lumsdale join the town, as the road from central Matlock (Causeway Lane) passes through towards Matlock Cliff and then to Tansley.
    List of Rectors
Churches and Chapels
About Matlock War Memorial

Mr. Arkwright of Willersley was listed amongst the residents of Matlock Town as Willersley is within the parish, although it received its mail through Cromford.

A Trades Directory of 1908 recorded that 'many of the old [lead] mines have been reopened and are being worked mainly for the spar'.[1908]
Lead mining
Stone quarrying

Also on this website see:
The Local Schools
QuickList has directory entries and census returns

White's Directory, 1857 said that fairs were held in Matlock on February 25th, April 2nd, May 9th, July 6th and October 4th and 24th[3]. At that time, the weekly market had been 'obsolete' for about forty years although it was 'the intention of the inhabitants to re-establish it'. A cattle market was held every alternate Thursday at Matlock Green but by 1932 the cattle market was described as being 'held occasionally'[1932]. In 1941 this was amended still further to 'the Matlock and District Agricultural Society organise several cattle and produce shows each year[1941]'. Horses had been sold at the Matlock market, at the annual May fair on 9th May, which was held in a large field by the roadside (now a petrol filling station). The sale of cattle moved to Bakewell market.


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Picture of Riber Castle from the original painting © Frank Clay
Picture of Riber Castle from the original painting © Frank Clay of Matlock,
reproduced here with his kind permission.


"Most of us know its name, if only for the Castle which crowns this great hill, a landmark 850 feet above the sea ; but it is worth knowing for itself, for the charm of its old stone houses and its magnificent prospect, from Matlock at its feet to far-flung hills and vales[4]".

The ruin of Riber Castle, built by John Smedley in 1862, dominates the town of Matlock as it is perched on the edge of the hill above Starkholmes, very high up. The building won't be a ruin for much longer, though, as is currently being restored and converted into flats.

John Smedley was the owner of the largest hydropathic establishment in Matlock. Built very quickly, the castle was constructed of massive blocks of local gritstone taken from a quarry near the castle and Smedley was the sole architect. Smedley employed skilled craftsmen. Plasterers, for example, came from Italy to work on the Castle. There was electricity and gas, plus a deep well for water.

The Castle's salon was vast. Some of the ceramic tiles used were made by Maw & Co..

   
Website about Maw & Co. - see images M147, M148, M159 and M254 from the castle's fireplaces.
A newspaper report about one craftsmen

Mrs. Caroline Smedley continued to live at Riber Castle after her husband died, though it has since been used for a variety of things, including a boys' school, a food store during WW2 and a zoo. The school was owned by a Reverend John William Chippett, previously of Harrogate.

Riber itself is a small hamlet near the castle; it is 798 feet above sea level and this rises to 928 feet.

Riber was the property and residence of the Wolley family for several centuries and there is an altar tomb dated 1578 in St. Giles' church that is dedicated to Anthony Wolley 'of Ryber', Agnes (his wife) and six children. The Wolley family were long livers, as the tombstone of Adam Wolley (1558 -1657) and his wife Grace (1559 - 1669) that is also in St. Giles' shows. This couple were married for 76 years and lived at Allen-hill in Matlock. The Wolley's were important people in Matlock's history and their family papers, and other documents collected by Adam Wolley are listed among The Wolley Manuscripts.
Wolley Manuscripts, Matlock
Wolley Manuscripts, Derbyshire
Pedigree of Wolley of Riber
Wolley of Darley Abbey, descendants of the Wolleys of Allen Hill.

It was another Anthony Wolley, a bachelor, who sold the stone built hall in 1668. Then, in 1724 the co-heiresses of the Chappell family divided it into two moieties (note: moiety means half). In the late 19th century Riber hall was shown as being inhabited by the Wall family[5] and Hearthstone (Harston) was the 'property of a yeoman named Statham' (Bryan[6], p.245). There was supposed to have been the remains of a Druidical altar on Riber hill, but this was destroyed in the nineteenth century.


Riber became part of the parish of Tansley in 1865, though continued to be included under Matlock in the various directories. The children of the hamlet attended the National School at Starkholmes.
1891 Directory of Tansley
The QuickList has census returns and more trades directories

Matlock: A Peep at Riber Castle
Mr. Chippett's School at Riber Castle
Matlock Bath: Fountain Baths, Swimmers From Riber School
Boys from Mr. Chippett's School attended swimming lessons there
Riber Castle, Matlock : A Classroom
Matlock: Riber Hall
Riber Hall, an early twentieth century painting by Henry Hadfield Cubley
Riber Hill and Riber Castle, a view of the farms and dry stone walls below the castle
Riber Castle, Four Mid-Nineteeth Century Engravings
One from Mrs. Smedley's book and three smaller ones from John Smedley's book

The Local Schools
Water Cures Includes an engraving of Mr. Smedley's tent, where his employees worshipped
Churches and Chapels
"There Was Red Tape at Smedley's Hydro Then"
The Enduring Folly of Riber Castle
Riber Castle School "A Lesson in Matlock's History"

Section of Ordnance Survey Map of Riber (1903)

Elsewhere on the Internet:
Riber Hall's website (opens in a new window)



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On the hillside below Riber, Starkholmes overlooks Matlock Bath
Starkholmes from the top of Holme Road, Matlock Bath, September 2008


Starkholmes follows the line of the old road that connects Matlock Green with the village of Cromford. In 1848 Starkholmes was described as then being 'a district of scattered houses in this parish [Matlock]. Here is a place of worship for Primitive Methodists'.[1848]

On the hillside below Riber, Starkholmes overlooks Matlock Bath, but is only connected to that village by a steep footpath near the railway station. The footpath and the land on either side of it is the only access to Matlock Bath from that side of the valley and a footbridge over the River Derwent is at the lower end of the path. In July 1882 a resolution was passed to construct a road between Starkholmes and Matlock Bath, but this has never been implemented. There is a steep road (Riber Road) connecting Starkholmes with the hamlet of Riber.

The children attended the National School. In 1905 the Fox Memorial Primitive Methodist chapel was built at Starkholmes.
The Local Schools
Churches & Chapels
The QuickList has trades directories and census info
See Kelly's 1876 Directory
Also see Kelly's 1891 Directory
Starkholmes ARP Wardens, about 1940


grey button Matlock Cliff

The area known as Matlock Cliff goes from Matlock Green towards the village of Tansley and became part of the parish of Tansley in 1865.

St. Andrew's Home, run by the Church of England Waifs' & Strays' Society as an orphanage, was in Ernest Bailey's former home on Matlock Cliff.

Also see Ernest Bailey's - one of The Local Schools
QuickList has directory entries and census returns.
Have a look at Kelly's 1891 Directory
Have a look at Directory of Tansley 1891


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Lumsdale is where the corn mills and bleach works were and was an industrial area of Matlock, where most of the population of Tansley were employed at one time. In 1857 Lumsdale is describes as '1½ miles east from Matlock. Here are three bleach works and a cotton spinning factory, all of which are in Tansley[3]'. The area was noted for the amount of energy created from the use of water power.

At one time some seventeen or so mills were able to operate from one small stream, the Bentley Brook, because of the power that was generated as the water falls about eighty feet. Dams were constructed in the very steep hillside so the mills could operate and some of these dams are still intact, though the mills set into the hillside are in ruins. Apparently, in winter time, when the waters were high, some mills were unable to operate because there was too much power! Matlock Mills, in Lumsdale, advertised its use of water & steam in 1891[1891]. The mill was owned at that time by the miller Ernest Henry Bailey, who was also a dealer in barley, oats, Indian corn and linseed cakes etc. The steep valley contained cotton, tape, paper, saw mills etc. and there was a small railway. As the photograph shows, the wooded valley is very picturesque.

A Russian delegation visited Matlock some years ago and were particularly interested in both Masson Mill beside the River Derwent and Lumsdale.

Lumsdale became part of the parish of Tansley in 1865.

There is a Lumsdale Society which is is a conservation society concerned with preserving and restoring the valley.

   
The mill stream, Lumsdale
The mill stream, Lumsdale


There is a Lumsdale Society which is is a conservation society concerned with preserving and restoring the valley.
Matlock Town and Green Residents, 1891
Kelly's 1891 Directory of Tansley
Also see the QuickList

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Matlock Dale is the area opposite High Tor, towards Matlock Bath, and is included in Matlock Bath in old tourist guides and trades directories. There is a bend in the river here at the foot of High Tor that has been favoured by artists for several centuries; it is known as Artist's Corner. This section of the River Derwent is now regularly used by canoeists and climbers can be seen scaling the face of the Tor almost every weekend.
About Matlock Bath
St John's Chapel overlooks the Dale.

    Matlock Dale is the area opposite High Tor
Matlock Dale from High Tor, about 1980

The north end of the dale was described by W. Adam in his "The Gem of the Peak" (1840) and the names of the residents in 1840 can be found elsewhere on this site.
Excerpts from the book and names of the residents in 1840

Many photographs have been taken and artists have painted the view of High Tor and the Dale over the centuries.
Matlock and Matlock Bath Images has a large selection of postcards and photographs.


Matlock : High Tor Guest House, 1945-50. Tor Cottage was built in Matlock Dale by Colonel Edward Payne in the early nineteenth century
Cottages, Matlock Dale, 1899
Designed by the architect E. Guy Dawber


Photographs kindly provided by and © Paul Kettle and the webmistress. Riber Castle picture now © the estate of Frank Clay
Information researched by and © Ann Andrews. Intended for personal use only


References:
[1] Firth, J.B. (1908) "Highways and Byways in Derbyshire" MacMillan & Co., London
[2] "General Commercial Directory and Topography of the Borough of Sheffield with all the Towns, Parishes, Villages and Hamlets Within a Circuit of Twenty Miles" (1862), pub. Francis White & Co. Sheffield. See Names in White's Directory, 1862
[3] White, Francis (1857) "History, Gazetteer and Directory of the County of Derby", Francis White & Co. See Names in White's Directory, 1857
[4] Mee, Arthur (ed.) (1937) "Derbyshire: The Peak Country",The King's England Series, Hodder and Stoughton Limited, London
[5] See Riber Hall in the 1901 census
[6] Bryan, Benjamin (1903) "History of Matlock - Matlock, Manor and Parish" London by Bemrose & Sons, Limited

[1848] "The Post Office Directory of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Rutlandshire" (1848), Kelly and Co., London
[1891] "Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland" (May, 1891), pub. London
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There are online transcripts: 19th century directories
[1908] "Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire", 1908 } There are online transcripts: 20th century directories
[1932] "Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire", 1932 } -
[1941] "Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire", 1941 } -