Makeney
| Makeney | |
| Derbyshire | |
|---|---|
 Forge Steps in Makeney | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK351446 |
| Location: | 52°59’54"N, 1°28’40"W |
| Data | |
| Postcode: | DE56 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Amber Valley |
Makeney is a small village by the meadows on the east bank of the River Derwent in Derbyshire. It grew up out of Elizabethan industrial innovation, and further in the Georgian Industrial Revolution, which saw Makeney however eclipsed by its daughter village, Milford immediately to the north.
The village stands between Duffield and Belper on the A6 trunk road.
History
In 1554, Burchard Kranich built the first smeltmill in Makeney,[1] for extracting lead from its ore. Then, in 1581 Sir John Zouch of Codnor Castle set up a wire drawing works[1] This followed the opening of a works in Hathersage in 1566 where Christopher Schutz, a German immigrant, had invented a process for drawing wire. Hathersage became a centre for wire drawing and, later, needle making[1]
It was written in 1817:
Makeney, a hamlet of [the parish of Duffield], (Machenie), is described in the Domesday Survey as one of the manors of Henry de Ferrars. It is now considered as parcel of the manor of Duffield.
About 700 hands are employed by Messrs. Strutt in the spinning and bleaching of cotton, at Millford, a populous manufacturing village in this parish.
There is a Unitarian chapel at Millford, supported by Mr. Strutt; who supports also a Lancasterian school, in which the numbers are about 300: a room to accommodate about 400 is now building at Millford. The girls in this school, and that at Belper, are taught to sew, cut out, &c. as well as to read and write. A chapel has lately been erected here for the Wesleyan Methodists.[2]
The Royal Mint had acquired the rights to Schutz' process in 1568 and set out to restrict its use to the Company of Mineral and Battery Works. However, the works continued supplying the Belper nail makers among others and by the time Jedediah Strutt bought it, it consisted of two forges and a slitting and rolling mill, occupying both sides the river. Some of the mill buildings are now the Riverside Garden Centre.
Aboutt he village
The local pub is the Holly Bush Inn.[3]
The Derwent valley Heritage Way, a long distance walking route, runs along the road through Makeney.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Cooper, B., (1983) Transformation of a Valley: The Derbyshire Derwent, Heinemann, republished 1991 Cromford: Scarthin Books
- ↑ Daniel and Samuel Lysons: Magna Britannia: volume 5 Pages 129-142: 'Parishes: Doveridge - Duffield' (1817)
- ↑ The Holly Bush Inn