- Winster
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Winster, Cumbria ."infobox UK place
country = England
static_
static_image_caption=The Market House Winster in 2005 during the village’s Secret Gardens event
official_name= Winster
map_type= Derbyshire
latitude= 53.1419
longitude= -1.6399
population = 633
shire_district=Derbyshire Dales
region= East Midlands
shire_county =Derbyshire
constituency_westminster= West Derbyshire
post_town= MATLOCK
postcode_district = DE4 2
postcode_area= DE
dial_code= 01629 [650xxx]
os_grid_reference= SK241605Winster is a former lead-mining village in the
Derbyshire Dales about convert|5|mi|km from Matlock and convert|6|mi|km fromBakewell at an altitude of approx 250 m. The village, which lies within thePeak District National Park, has a large number of listed buildings, including the Market House open daily as a National Trust information point. Its current population is about 630; the village has a primary school, two churches, two pubs, a Post Office and a Village Shop owned by the community. Winster was mentioned in theDomesday book in 1086 when it was owned byHenry de Ferrers "Domesday Book: A Complete Translation". London: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 0-14-143994-7 p.745] .A
workhouse at Bank Top (gbmapping|SK239602) was opened in 1744. It had a rule that forbade any relief outside of the workhouse. By the 1770s it could house 40 inmates [Higginbotham, P. (2007), "Workhouses of the Midlands", Tempus, Stroud. Page 26. ISBN 978-0-7524-4488-8] .Winster Market House was the National Trust's first property in the Peak District and was acquired in 1906.
Winster Wakes
Winster's Parish Church is the Church of St John The Baptist, and a week-long annual carnival called Winster Wakes starts on the first Sunday on or after
June 24 (the patronal day of St John The Baptist). The Main Street is closed briefly on the Sunday for the Wakes Parade, and for much of the following Saturday afternoon, when there are stalls and entertainment (including Morris Dancing) in the street.Death of the Doctor
In May 1821 a young surgeon, William Cuddie was killed in one of the last duels to take place in England. Cuddie was aged 31 and had fallen in love with Mary, the daughter of the wealthy Brittlebank family of Oddo House. For some reason one of her brothers, William Brittlebank, tried to keep them apart. One evening the two men quarrelled. The doctor later received a note asking;
"“Sir, I expect satisfaction for the insult you dared to offer me at a time when you knew that my situation with a helpless Woman prevented my chastising you. Name your time and place, the bearer will wait for an answer. Yours William Brittlebank, Junior. I shall be attended by a friend and prepared with pistols, and if you don’t meet I shall post you as a coward.”"
Cuddie refused to reply to the letter and the following afternoon the three Brittlebank brothers turned up in his garden with two loaded pistols. Cuddie reluctantly accepted one of the weapons. William Brittlebank walked convert|15|yd away, turned and fired. Two shots were heard but only Cuddie was hit. He died a few hours later.
Two of the Brittlebanks were tried in Derby to be found not guilty of murder, while their brother William fled to Australia with a £100 reward on his head, never to return to England.
References
External links
* [http://www.winster.org/ Winster village website]
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