SHELDON, a chapelry in the parish of BAKEWELL,
hundred of HIGH-PEAK, county of DERBY, 3 miles (W.)
from Bakewell, containing 143 inhabitants. The living
is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the
Dean and Chapter of Lichfield, endowed with £200 private
benefaction, £600 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of the Vicar of
Bakewell. The chapel is dedicated to All Saints.
There are lead mines in the neighbourhood. Mary
Frost, in 1756, gave £200 for apprenticing poor boys.
Sheldon is in the honour of Tutbury, duchy of Lan-
caster, and within the jurisdiction of a court of pleas
held at Chapel en le Frith, for the recovery of debts
under 40s.