Useful things in the landscape: the Sulphur Bathhouse and inn at Kedleston, Derbyshire, 1760–1900

Figures & data

Figure 1. Map of Derbyshire (detail), engraved by Thomas Kitchin, after Peter Perez Burdett, 1791 (2nd edition). Derby Museums collection / photo credit: Richard Tailby.

Figure 2. The Sulphur Bathhouse, Kedleston. Image: Author

Figure 3. Kedleston Inn. Image: Author

Table 1. Occupations of Kedleston Inn’s proprietors 1841–81. Source: TNA, HO 107/190/5 and HO 107/594/4, 1841 Census; HO 107/2006, 1851 Census; RG 9/1947 and RG 9/2506, 1861 Census; RG 10/3577, 1871 Census; RG11/3408, 1881 Census.

Year	Name	Location	Occupation as listed	Male Employees	Female Employees
1841	William Gallimore	Kedleston Inn	Farmer
1841	Thomas Heathcote	Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire	Farmer	three servants
1851	Thomas Heathcote	Penkhull, Stoke upon Trent, Staffordshire	Farmer, forty-eight acres	six men
1861	Thomas Heathcote	Railway Inn, Leek, Staffordshire	Victualler		one barmaid, one domestic servant
1871	Thomas Heathcote	Kedleston Inn	Farmer, 107 acres	two indoor farm labourers, one errand boy
1851	Robert Goodson	Harby, Leicestershire	Farmer, 162 acres	two labourers, one servant
1861	Robert Goodson	Kedleston Inn	Farmer, 107 acres Innkeeper	six labourers, one boy, one ostler	one housemaid, one kitchen maid
1881	Edward Kidger	Kedleston Inn	Farmer, 248 acres	five labourers, four indoor farm servants	one domestic servant, one governess, one nurse

Table 2. Proprietors of Kedleston Inn, 1760–1887. Sources: Derbyshire Record Office, Q/RA 1/1–5, Licensed Victuallers’ Recognisances, 1760–1827; Derby Mercury, 1760–1887.

Date	Proprietor
1760–5	John Lamb
1765	Thomas Lamb
1766–7	Francis Harris
1767–86	Francis Dawson
1787–94	Erasmus Stevens
1795–9	John Marsden
1800–3	Richard Smith
1804–7	Ann Stevens
1808–12	Mary Bull
1813–31	John Storer
1833–8	John Wade
1838–58	William Gallimore
1859–62	Robert Goodson
1863	Elizabeth Goodson
1863–7	William Ault
1867–72	Thomas Heathcote
1873–4	Mr Stevenson
1874–87	Edward Kidger
1887	R. H. Archer