Summary
In 1906, the patriarch of the family collected 'Records of the Village' -- not, he insisted, a history of the village but a 'serious attempt to collect interesting and useful local data'. It was printed and expensively bound in Bakewell (the nearest town of any size), dedicated (naturally 'by permission') to the Right Honourable Victor Christian William Cavendish PC, MP (nephew and heir apparent to the Duke) and commended to prospective readers with the words of Thos.
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Village Life
The northern end of my village rejoices in old age. And it is even more venerable than it looks. Sometime during the 18th century the more prosperous residents invested in conspicuous, though otherwise pointless, extensions. My own house has a se...
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