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RMMee
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The Well
replied on: 8/21/2005 8:40:08 PM A development! When I first came across the name "Askey Sic," it was used to describe the path leading from Marlpool to Shipley Hall. I later discovered the name on a map indicating a well in the area of the Marlpool estate. I was at a family get together today (fascinating idea - everyone who was the grandchild of my grandparents was invited - plus partners - loads of people, some of whom I'd never met before, even at funerals - and, in our family's case, a huge age range, from 46 to nearly 80!). Somebody at the do referred to the "Sic," which was the name they used, post-war, for the footpath which led down from Heanor Road onto Ridgeway, at the side of Mundy Hall. The estate was built after the war, but this name will undoubtedly have been a throwback to the earlier name of the path. I had assumed that the path will have been along the route of Sunningdale Avenue, but I now think that the path was down through what became Ridgeway, then probably through the woods at the bottom of Holmesfield Drive, then onto Buxton Avenue and thence to Shipley Hall. I suspect that somewhere along this route will have been the location of the well. (I shall have a walk one day!) |
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Azzabuv
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The Well
replied on: 8/29/2005 1:59:11 PM On the 1896 map, Robert and facing South, the Well is approximately halfway along the small pathway between the Cemetery and the edge of Hufton's Coppice. At the Coppice, the path swings to the right, leading to the now Buxton Avenue, passing partway down, the house then known as the 'Kennels' on the left. Then came the bridge just before the Pond and so on up to the Hall. Azzabuv. |
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philfred
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The Well
replied on: 7/12/2007 10:54:03 PM From Bulmer's 1895 directory we have living in Marlpool Taylor Wm, tailor and cowkeeper, Askey Sick. From Sanderson's Map, early 18th century, the name Hoskey's Hick in Marlpool. The location of the lettering is in the area of the top of Sunningdale Avenue. Do we have yet another red herring or did Hoskey's Hick get mangled into Askey Sick. I have had a search for hick in the hope that it could be a name for a topographical feature. The best I found was that hick was a 16th century familiar for Richard and the usual meaning of rustic person. regards Phil |
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