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136_126	D- Day landings in Normandy The Mary Newcomb Players traveled to France, Holland, and Belgium to
136_127	continue their support for the war effort.
136_128	After World War II, Mary Newcomb's focus remained with her husband Alex in Dorset. She was active
136_129	in local affairs and was a patron of the county's annual Music Series. Each year she hosted the
136_130	Stinsford Church's annual FETE on the grounds of Stinsford House.
136_131	After the war Mary, who had been confirmed in the Church of England in 1937, joined the Roman
136_132	Catholic Church. This decision was no doubt influenced by her secondary school education under the
136_133	Sisters of Mercy at Lauralton Hall, and also by her portrayal of St. Joan. Her husband Alex died in
136_134	1957. Several years later Mary moved out of Stinsford House to a house in the nearby Village of
136_135	Puddletown. She spent several months each winter in New York where her sister, brother, and
136_136	extended family lived.
136_137	Death
136_138	Newcomb died on December 26, 1966, at her home in England at age 73. She is buried with her husband
136_139	Alex in the churchyard of St. Michael's Church adjacent to Stinsford House.
136_140	Selected filmography The Passionate Pilgrim (1921) The Marriage Bond (1932) Frail Women (1932)
136_141	Women Who Play (1932) Strange Experiment (1937)
136_142	References External links
136_143	1893 births 1966 deaths American film actresses Actresses from Massachusetts
136_144	American stage actresses 20th-century American actresses
136_145	American expatriate actresses in the United Kingdom
137_0	Ashover is a village and civil parish in the English county of Derbyshire. It is in the North East
137_1	Derbyshire district of the county. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 Census was
137_2	1,905. It sits in a valley, not far from the town of Matlock and the Peak District national park.
137_3	The centre of the village is a conservation area. The River Amber flows through the village.
137_4	Although Ashover is a small settlement, the actual ward boundaries of the village extend for many
137_5	miles, including the nearby settlements of Alicehead, Alton, Ashover Hay, Farhill, Kelstedge,
137_6	Littlemoor, Milltown, Spitewinter, Stone Edge and Uppertown. The two major roads, running through
137_7	the parish, are the A632 from Matlock to Chesterfield, and the A615 from Matlock to Alfreton. The
137_8	area along that part of the A615 is named Doehole. Slack is a small hamlet, within the parish,
137_9	which is south west of Kelstedge on the A632; nearby to there, on Robridding Road (off Wirestone
137_10	Lane), is the Eddlestow Lot Picnic Site, which has been developed in the former Wirestone Quarry:
137_11	it is surrounded by heathland vegetation. The picnic site provides a good base to explore the local
137_12	Public Rights of Way. Circular walks are waymarked from the car park, a leaflet is available by
137_13	contacting the County Council. There is public access into many of the adjacent Forestry Commission
137_14	owned woodlands. The site has plants including heather and bilberry. The other numbered roads in
137_15	the parish are the B5057 from near North Brittain to Stone Edge, the B6036 between Kelstedge and
137_16	Dalebank running past Ashover itself, and the B6014 from near Butterley to just past Ashover Hay.
137_17	Fallgate is a hamlet beside the River Amber, in the south-east corner of the parish, off the B6036
137_18	to Woolley Moor and Handley.
137_19	History
137_20	Known in Saxon times as Essovre (possibly 'beyond the ash trees' or 'ash tree slope'), Ashover was
137_21	probably in existence during the first taxation survey of England by King Alfred in 893. However,
137_22	the first written reference to the village occurs in the Domesday Book of 1086, in which Ashover is
137_23	owned by Ralph fitzHubert and is credited with a church, a priest, several ploughs, a mill. It had
137_24	previously had a taxable value of four pounds, but it was revalued at thirty shillings.
137_25	Ashover was the scene of a confrontation between the Royalists and the Roundheads during the
137_26	English Civil War in the 17th century. The Roundheads, short of ammunition, demolished the windows
137_27	of the church and used the lead to make bullets. They also reduced nearby Eastwood Hall to ruins;
137_28	all that can be seen today are the ivy-clad remains. Royalists slaughtered livestock and drank all
137_29	the wine and ale in the cellars of Eddlestow Hall while the owner Sir John Pershall was away. Job
137_30	Wall, the landlord of the Crispin Inn public house, refused entry to the army, telling them they
137_31	had had too much to drink. But they threw him out and drank the ale, pouring what was left down the
137_32	street. Outside, affixed to the front wall of the pub is a signboard with a history of the inn.
137_33	Ashover's industrial history is linked with lead mining and quarrying, both of which date back to
137_34	Roman times. Butt's Quarry is a large disused example, previously excavated by the Clay Cross
137_35	Company for its works away. During the Second World War, prisoners of war held at Clay Cross were
137_36	taken daily to the quarry to make concrete blocks. It is now home to a wide range of different
137_37	species, including jackdaws which nest on the quarry face. Part of the village was home to the
137_38	stocking frame knitting industry, which once rivalled lead mining in importance. The area is called
137_39	Rattle, which is believed to be a reference to the noise made by the machinery.
137_40	Electricity came to the valley in the 1920s, but the village was not connected to the National Grid
137_41	until a decade later. Some outlying settlements were not connected until after the Second World
137_42	War. It was not until 1967 that gas street lights were replaced by electric lighting.
137_43	Until 1963, there was a hydro in the village, sourcing its own private water supply from a tank on
137_44	a hillside. Ashover had two such institutions, which were popular in the 19th century due to the
137_45	belief in 'healing water'. Subsequently, purchased by the electricity board, the building is today
137_46	divided into private apartments, with further expensive new houses built in the grounds.
137_47	Ashover Golf Club (now defunct) was founded in 1905. The club disappeared in the late 1920s.
137_48	Landmarks The Fabrick
137_49	To the east of the village is a gritstone boulder and viewpoint locally known as 'The Fabrick' or
137_50	'Ashover Rock'. The Fabrick sits on an area of heathland 299 metres above sea level. It is the
137_51	highest viewpoint for a considerable distance, and the majority of the landscape east of this point
137_52	to the coast is lower. Consequently, on a clear day, views can be seen of nearby Chesterfield with
137_53	its Crooked Spire, Bolsover Castle, Hardwick Hall, some suburbs of the South Yorkshire city of
137_54	Sheffield, the surrounding counties of Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Staffordshire.
137_55	Next to The Fabrick is a disused Royal Observer Corps monitoring station, which was abandoned in
137_56	1991. However, it is opened up occasionally by enthusiasts. For many years, The Fabrick was
137_57	privately owned by the "Bassett" sisters who were descendants of the family known for creating
137_58	"Bassetts Liquorice Allsorts", but in 2006 was donated to Derbyshire County Council. In the
137_59	Victorian period, there was a stone folly on the top of the Fabrick, no trace of which remains.
137_60	On certain days in the pagan calendar, morris dancers gather.
137_61	Gladwin's Mark
137_62	In present times, this is the site of Gladwin's Mark Farm and Gladwin's Mark Wood, to the far north
137_63	west of the parish.
137_64	By the 18th century, there were several thousand acres of unenclosed moorland in the parish of
137_65	Ashover, principally covered with heath. The only paths across this wilderness for roads were
137_66	tracks in the sand or heath with here and there a stone post on the hills or elevations to serve as
137_67	guides to the traveller and packhorses which traversed one point of the area to another.
137_68	Local legend was that, a man by the name of Gladwin, possibly William was crossing the moor in deep
137_69	snow, late on a December afternoon. Before he had got half way night suddenly closed in and soon
137_70	after a storm brought with it heavy snowfall which blinded and bewildered him enough to lose his
137_71	way. Weary, tired and trembling, Gladwin stumbled on until he came to a cairn or heap of loose
137_72	stones on which he sat down to rest and reflect on his situation, and realising that if he remained
137_73	inactive he would be in grave danger of death from frostbite. He began with all his remaining
137_74	energy to build and pile up the stones, this being summarily completed only to be pulled down and
137_75	rebuilt, and repeated many times during what must have seemed to Gladwin a long and dreary night,
137_76	however his life was saved by this exercise. When the welcome daylight came to his rescue, it found
137_77	the pile just perfected where it still remains and bears the name of Gladwin's Mark.
137_78	What was the turnpike road from Chesterfield to Rowsley passes about one hundred yards to the right
137_79	of the Mark. Two farm houses, one on each side of the road, built by Sir Joseph Banks, a local

136_126

D- Day landings in Normandy The Mary Newcomb Players traveled to France, Holland, and Belgium to

136_127

continue their support for the war effort.

136_128

After World War II, Mary Newcomb's focus remained with her husband Alex in Dorset. She was active

136_129

in local affairs and was a patron of the county's annual Music Series. Each year she hosted the

136_130

Stinsford Church's annual FETE on the grounds of Stinsford House.

136_131

After the war Mary, who had been confirmed in the Church of England in 1937, joined the Roman

136_132

Catholic Church. This decision was no doubt influenced by her secondary school education under the

136_133

Sisters of Mercy at Lauralton Hall, and also by her portrayal of St. Joan. Her husband Alex died in

136_134

1957. Several years later Mary moved out of Stinsford House to a house in the nearby Village of

136_135

Puddletown. She spent several months each winter in New York where her sister, brother, and

136_136

extended family lived.

136_137

Death

136_138

Newcomb died on December 26, 1966, at her home in England at age 73. She is buried with her husband

136_139

Alex in the churchyard of St. Michael's Church adjacent to Stinsford House.

136_140

Selected filmography The Passionate Pilgrim (1921) The Marriage Bond (1932) Frail Women (1932)

136_141

Women Who Play (1932) Strange Experiment (1937)

136_142

References External links

136_143

1893 births 1966 deaths American film actresses Actresses from Massachusetts

136_144

American stage actresses 20th-century American actresses

136_145

American expatriate actresses in the United Kingdom

137_0

Ashover is a village and civil parish in the English county of Derbyshire. It is in the North East

137_1

Derbyshire district of the county. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 Census was

137_2

1,905. It sits in a valley, not far from the town of Matlock and the Peak District national park.

137_3

The centre of the village is a conservation area. The River Amber flows through the village.

137_4

Although Ashover is a small settlement, the actual ward boundaries of the village extend for many

137_5

miles, including the nearby settlements of Alicehead, Alton, Ashover Hay, Farhill, Kelstedge,

137_6

Littlemoor, Milltown, Spitewinter, Stone Edge and Uppertown. The two major roads, running through

137_7

the parish, are the A632 from Matlock to Chesterfield, and the A615 from Matlock to Alfreton. The

137_8

area along that part of the A615 is named Doehole. Slack is a small hamlet, within the parish,

137_9

which is south west of Kelstedge on the A632; nearby to there, on Robridding Road (off Wirestone

137_10

Lane), is the Eddlestow Lot Picnic Site, which has been developed in the former Wirestone Quarry:

137_11

it is surrounded by heathland vegetation. The picnic site provides a good base to explore the local

137_12

Public Rights of Way. Circular walks are waymarked from the car park, a leaflet is available by

137_13

contacting the County Council. There is public access into many of the adjacent Forestry Commission

137_14

owned woodlands. The site has plants including heather and bilberry. The other numbered roads in

137_15

the parish are the B5057 from near North Brittain to Stone Edge, the B6036 between Kelstedge and

137_16

Dalebank running past Ashover itself, and the B6014 from near Butterley to just past Ashover Hay.

137_17

Fallgate is a hamlet beside the River Amber, in the south-east corner of the parish, off the B6036

137_18

to Woolley Moor and Handley.

137_19

History

137_20

Known in Saxon times as Essovre (possibly 'beyond the ash trees' or 'ash tree slope'), Ashover was

137_21

probably in existence during the first taxation survey of England by King Alfred in 893. However,

137_22

the first written reference to the village occurs in the Domesday Book of 1086, in which Ashover is

137_23

owned by Ralph fitzHubert and is credited with a church, a priest, several ploughs, a mill. It had

137_24

previously had a taxable value of four pounds, but it was revalued at thirty shillings.

137_25

Ashover was the scene of a confrontation between the Royalists and the Roundheads during the

137_26

English Civil War in the 17th century. The Roundheads, short of ammunition, demolished the windows

137_27

of the church and used the lead to make bullets. They also reduced nearby Eastwood Hall to ruins;

137_28

all that can be seen today are the ivy-clad remains. Royalists slaughtered livestock and drank all

137_29

the wine and ale in the cellars of Eddlestow Hall while the owner Sir John Pershall was away. Job

137_30

Wall, the landlord of the Crispin Inn public house, refused entry to the army, telling them they

137_31

had had too much to drink. But they threw him out and drank the ale, pouring what was left down the

137_32

street. Outside, affixed to the front wall of the pub is a signboard with a history of the inn.

137_33

Ashover's industrial history is linked with lead mining and quarrying, both of which date back to

137_34

Roman times. Butt's Quarry is a large disused example, previously excavated by the Clay Cross

137_35

Company for its works away. During the Second World War, prisoners of war held at Clay Cross were

137_36

taken daily to the quarry to make concrete blocks. It is now home to a wide range of different

137_37

species, including jackdaws which nest on the quarry face. Part of the village was home to the

137_38

stocking frame knitting industry, which once rivalled lead mining in importance. The area is called

137_39

Rattle, which is believed to be a reference to the noise made by the machinery.

137_40

Electricity came to the valley in the 1920s, but the village was not connected to the National Grid

137_41

until a decade later. Some outlying settlements were not connected until after the Second World

137_42

War. It was not until 1967 that gas street lights were replaced by electric lighting.

137_43

Until 1963, there was a hydro in the village, sourcing its own private water supply from a tank on

137_44

a hillside. Ashover had two such institutions, which were popular in the 19th century due to the

137_45

belief in 'healing water'. Subsequently, purchased by the electricity board, the building is today

137_46

divided into private apartments, with further expensive new houses built in the grounds.

137_47

Ashover Golf Club (now defunct) was founded in 1905. The club disappeared in the late 1920s.

137_48

Landmarks The Fabrick

137_49

To the east of the village is a gritstone boulder and viewpoint locally known as 'The Fabrick' or

137_50

'Ashover Rock'. The Fabrick sits on an area of heathland 299 metres above sea level. It is the

137_51

highest viewpoint for a considerable distance, and the majority of the landscape east of this point

137_52

to the coast is lower. Consequently, on a clear day, views can be seen of nearby Chesterfield with

137_53

its Crooked Spire, Bolsover Castle, Hardwick Hall, some suburbs of the South Yorkshire city of

137_54

Sheffield, the surrounding counties of Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Staffordshire.

137_55

Next to The Fabrick is a disused Royal Observer Corps monitoring station, which was abandoned in

137_56

1991. However, it is opened up occasionally by enthusiasts. For many years, The Fabrick was

137_57

privately owned by the "Bassett" sisters who were descendants of the family known for creating

137_58

"Bassetts Liquorice Allsorts", but in 2006 was donated to Derbyshire County Council. In the

137_59

Victorian period, there was a stone folly on the top of the Fabrick, no trace of which remains.

137_60

On certain days in the pagan calendar, morris dancers gather.

137_61

Gladwin's Mark

137_62

In present times, this is the site of Gladwin's Mark Farm and Gladwin's Mark Wood, to the far north

137_63

west of the parish.

137_64

By the 18th century, there were several thousand acres of unenclosed moorland in the parish of

137_65

Ashover, principally covered with heath. The only paths across this wilderness for roads were

137_66

tracks in the sand or heath with here and there a stone post on the hills or elevations to serve as

137_67

guides to the traveller and packhorses which traversed one point of the area to another.

137_68

Local legend was that, a man by the name of Gladwin, possibly William was crossing the moor in deep

137_69

snow, late on a December afternoon. Before he had got half way night suddenly closed in and soon

137_70

after a storm brought with it heavy snowfall which blinded and bewildered him enough to lose his

137_71

way. Weary, tired and trembling, Gladwin stumbled on until he came to a cairn or heap of loose

137_72

stones on which he sat down to rest and reflect on his situation, and realising that if he remained

137_73

inactive he would be in grave danger of death from frostbite. He began with all his remaining

137_74

energy to build and pile up the stones, this being summarily completed only to be pulled down and

137_75

rebuilt, and repeated many times during what must have seemed to Gladwin a long and dreary night,

137_76

however his life was saved by this exercise. When the welcome daylight came to his rescue, it found

137_77

the pile just perfected where it still remains and bears the name of Gladwin's Mark.

137_78

What was the turnpike road from Chesterfield to Rowsley passes about one hundred yards to the right

137_79

of the Mark. Two farm houses, one on each side of the road, built by Sir Joseph Banks, a local