Council Meeting – 21st July 1899

The Fifty-Eighth Meeting of the Great Longstone Parish Council
was held in the School Room, Great Longstone,
on Friday 21st July 1899,
duly convened by special circular by the Chairman.

Present:
Rev. G. Andrew (Chairman)
Messrs R. Coe, J. Orr, and G. Ward.

The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed.

The Chairman stated that he had called the meeting for the purpose of confirming the Resolution of the Council made at a meeting held on the 19th May last consenting to a proposal made by G. J. Maples Esq. of Thornbridge Hall that the whole of the Highlow Meadow Footpath should be stopped up. That Public Notice of the said Resolution (of which the following is a copy) had been posted on or near to the principal door of the Parish Church and the Wesleyan Chapel and at the usual place for posting Parish Notices, for more than two months before this day, and that no Parish Meeting had been held resolving that the said consent ought not to be given.

Copy of the Public Notice referred to above

Great Longstone

In pursuance of the Statutes in that behalf Notice is hereby given that at a Meeting of the Great Longstone Parish Council held on the nineteenth day of May 1899 consent was given to a proposal by George Jobson Maples of Thornbridge Hall, Esquire, that the whole of the Public Footpath called the Highlow Meadow Footpath, situate in the Rural Parishes of Ashford and Great Longstone and leading from the Ashford and Great Longstone Road to the Edensor and Ashford Road, that is to say from the stakes marked “A” at the junction of the said footpath with the said Ashford and Longstone Road to the stakes marked “B” at the junction of the said footpath with the said Edensor and Ashford Road, being in length 721 yards, should be stopped up at the expense of the said George Jobson Maples.

Given under our hands this nineteenth day of May 1899.

G. Andrew
Chairman of the Great Longstone Parish Council

Richard Coe
Henry Arthur Spanton
Members of the Great Longstone Parish Council

Mr R. Coe proposed, seconded by Mr J. Orr, and it was Resolved that the said Resolution be confirmed and that notice of the Resolution and its confirmation be given to the Bakewell Rural District Council.

Carried unanimously.

The following certificate was then signed by the Chairman and two members.

Certificate

To the Bakewell Rural District Council.

We hereby certify that a Meeting of the Great Longstone Parish Council duly convened was held on the nineteenth day of May last for the purpose of considering a proposal by George Jobson Maples of Thornbridge Hall, Esquire, to stop up at his expense the whole of the public footpath called the Highlow Meadow Footpath, situate in the Rural Parishes of Ashford and Great Longstone within the District of the said Council and leading from the Ashford and Longstone Road to the Edensor and Ashford Road, that is to say from the stakes marked “A” at the junction of the said footpath with the said Ashford and Longstone Road to the stakes marked “B” at the junction of the said footpath with the said Edensor and Ashford Road, being in length 721 yards.

That at the said meeting it was resolved that the said Parish Council consented to the said proposal and instructions were given to issue public notice of the said Resolution as required by the Statutes in that behalf.

That public notice of the said Resolution, a copy of which is hereto annexed, was given on the twentieth day of May last by posting the same on the door of the Parish Church of Great Longstone, the door of the Wesleyan Chapel, and the usual place for posting Parish notices; and the said notices continued so posted until the twenty-first day of July instant, when the said Resolution was confirmed as hereinafter mentioned, being a period of not less than two months.

That during the said period no Parish Meeting was held in the said Rural Parish of Great Longstone resolving that the consent of the said Parish Council to the said proposal ought not to have been given.

And that at a Meeting of the said Great Longstone Parish Council duly convened held on the said twenty-first day of July instant, being not less than two months after the above mentioned public notice was given, it was Resolved that the said Resolution of the said Parish Council of the nineteenth day of May last should be confirmed and that notice of the said Resolution and its confirmation should be given to the said Bakewell Rural District Council.

Dated this twenty-first day of July one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

G. Andrew
Chairman of the Great Longstone Parish Council

Richard Coe
George Ward
Two Members of the Great Longstone Parish Council

Gilder Quarry

The question of placing the Gilder Quarry under the care of some competent person to ensure the efficient working of the same was again brought before the meeting when the Rev. G. Andrew, with Messrs Orr and Ward, were appointed a deputation to inspect the quarry and report to the next meeting of the Council.

Signed

W. R. Hill-Dixon