The History of the Duke of York Inn                   in relation to the NEEDHAM family

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The Duke of York Inn is situated in the ancient parish of Chelmorton.  Chelmorton is not mentioned in the Doomsday Book.  It is a parcel of the Royal Manor of the High Peak and the mineral rights are leased to the Duke of Devonshire, who was once a principal landowner and Lord of the Manor.      The alehouse was first opened in 1618 as part of the farmstead owned by John and Maria White. The Needham family first came to the Inn in 1813 with Richard Needham. He and his wife Nancy Hulme were publicans until 1816. They had two children there; Elizabeth in 1813 and George in 1815.      George Needham (possibly a relative of Richard's ?) took over in 1817 when he married Ann Nall. They had four children there; George in 1818, Matthew in 1819, Mark in 1820 and Ellen Dicken in 1822. Tragically, George died at the young age of 34 in 1824 (buried at Taddington) and Ann took over as publican, helped by her sons.      In 1851 George and another son worked as farm labourers on a farm not part of the inn - possibly that of George Dicken. Ann died in 1859 and her son George took over as innkeeper and as farmer of 63 acres.  Ann's daughter Ellen Dicken, married farmer George Dicken (had she been named after his family?) who became publican in 1869. He was a farmer with 91 acres of land.       By 1881 George Dicken was described as innkeeper and farmer of 125 acres, with his wife Ellen and daughter Alice, 23 who was a servant at the inn and their son Matthew, 22 who worked on the farm.      In 1891 George Dicken, now aged 70 was a farmer. When he died in 1894, Ellen Dicken took over as publican in the pub that she had been born in until her death in 1899.                                         PAST INNKEEPERS OF THE DUKE OF YORK 1618 - 1662   JOHN WHITE                     1900 -            JAMES ARTHUR HAMMOND 1662 - 1687   CHRISTOPHER MELLOR  1900 - 1901  SAMUEL WARD 1688 - 1704   THOMAS REDFERN          1901 - 1913  GEORGE LANDER WESTALL 1705 - 1719   SAMUEL PLANT               1913 - 1938  JAMES HOROBIN 1719 -1752    RICHARD SALT                1938 - 1955  MARY ELLEN NAYLOR 1753 - 1756   WILLIAM SIMPSON          1955 - 1961  MARY ELLEN HADFIELD 1757 - 1774   ELLEN BAGSHAW             1961 - 1962  PETER STEWART HALL 1775 - 1784   SAMUEL ALLEN                1962 - 1965  PAUL MARSHALL KENTWORTHY 1785 - 1791   JOHN HIBBERT                1965 - 1967  CYRIL JAMES JONES    1792 - 1812   SOLOMON MYCOCK         1967 -            IRENE TWIGG 1813 - 1816   RICHARD NEEDHAM        1967 - 1970  JOHN ARTHUR BROADHURST 1817 - 1823   GEORGE NEEDHAM         1970 - 1975  MINNIE GREGORY 1824 - 1859   ANN NEEDHAM                1975 - 1980  JOHN HENRY FRITH 1859 - 1868   GEORGE NEEDHAM         1980 - 1981  DAVID ARTHUR NUGENT 1869 - 1894   GEORGE DICKEN             1981 - 1984  RAYMOND AUSTIN ATKINS 1894 - 1899   ELLEN DICKEN                1984 - 1997  JOHN LONGWOTH 1899 - 1901   GEORGE WILKINSON       1997 -            DAREN DAVID PARKER

This page is possible thanks to Darren Parker, publican of 'Duke of York' nr  Buxton, who provided help with history of the Inn and previous Innkeepers, back in 1998.  And courtesy of the present publican for allowing this page.

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