HOLMESFIELD, a chapelry in the parish of
DRONFIELD, hundred of SCARSDALE, county of DERBY,
2 miles (W.) from Dronfield, containing 499 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
of Derby, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry,
endowed with £10 per annum and £200 private benefaction,
and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of
the Vicar of Dronfield. The chapel was rebuilt in 1826.
A school was erected, in 1725, on land given by Matthias
Webster, previously to which Robert Mower, in
1719, gave certain land toward the maintenance of a
Schoolmaster, and subsequently, in 1725, Prudence
Mower gave £60; the produce of these endowments,
with other subscriptions, amounts to about £18 per annum,
for which sum about twenty children receive instruction.