Repton and its neighbourhood

by F. C. Hipkins

REPTON:
A. J. LAWRENCE, PRINTER.

PREFACE.

In the year 1892, I ventured to write, for Reptonians, a short History of Repton, its quick sale emboldened me to set about obtaining materials for a second edition. The list of Authors, &c., consulted (printed at the end of this preface), will enable any one, who wishes to do so, to investigate the various events further, or to prove the truth of the facts recorded. Round the Church, Priory, and School centre all that is interesting, and, naturally, they occupy nearly all the pages of this second attempt to supply all the information possible to those who live in, or visit our old world village, whose church, &c., might well have served the poet Gray as the subject of his Elegy.

“Beneath those rugged Elms, that Yew-tree’s shade,

Where heaves the Turf in many a mould’ring Heap,

Each in his narrow Cell for ever laid,

The rude Forefathers of the Hamlet sleep.”