TICKNALL, a parish in the hundred of REPTON-and-GRESLEY,
county of DERBY, 5 miles (N. byW.)
from Ashby de la Zouch, containing 1274 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of
Derby, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed
with £200 royal bounty, and £1200 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of Sir George Crewe, Bart.
The church, dedicated to St. Thomas a Becket, is partly in
the early and partly in the later style of English architecture,
and has lately been repaired and embellished,
There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
Many of the inhabitants are employed at the extensive
limeworks within the parish. A school-house was
erected by Dame Catherine Harpur, who, in 1744,
conveyed for its support land now producing an annual
income of £25, for which forty boys are instructed:
the premises were rebuilt, in 1825, at the
expense of Sir George Crewe. An hospital for seven
decayed housekeepers of Ticknall and Calke was
founded, in 1771> by Charles Harpur, Esq., who gave
£500 for building it, and endowed it with £2000;
seven aged women at present enjoy the benefits of this
charity. Ticknall is in the honour of Tutbury, duchy
of Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction of a court of
pleas held at Tutbury every third Tuesday, for the
recovery of debts under 40s.