Photos taken in April11th 2000 in Hartshorn England.  Location of Thomas Coulson 1660’s

http://www.hartshorne-church.org/

http://www.hartshorne.org.uk/Content/History/Origins.htm

http://www.ukvillages.co.uk/ukvillages.nsf/villages/Hartshorne-Derbyshire?open&logid=&

Link to Coulson’s in 1660’s

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brett/hartshorne/hartshorne.htm

Ashbourne, Derbyshire

http://www.ashbourne-town.com/history/history.html

History Pages

Ashbourne stems from a small Saxon village first mentioned in the Domesday Book. Here it is referred to under its medieval name of Essiburn.

"In Essiburn 3 carucates of land taxable. Land for 3 ploughs. Waste,- however it pays 20s. A priest and a church with 1 carucate of land taxable,- he has 2 Villagers and 2 smallholders who have half a plough,- (he has) 1 plough himself and 1 man who pays 16d. Meadow, 20 acres; woodland pasture I league long and 1/2 a league wide. Outliers of this manor, in Afappleton 2c,- Broadlowash 2c,- Thorpe 2c,- (Fenny) Bentley 2c,- Offcote 2c,- Hognaston 4c. Taxable 14c. of land. Land for as many ploughs. Waste exceptfor 11 villagers and 17 smallholders who have 6 1/2 ploughs. Meadow, 25 acres.

(A caraucate is about 120 acres, this was based on the amount of land a team of 8 oxen could plough in a season.)

(For a good online source of Medieval English history book text try "The Internet Medieval Sourcebook" website)

It came to prominence in the 18th and 19th century as a way point at the meeting of six coaching roads. Bonny Prince Charlie proclaimed his father king of England when he was in Ashbourne on his abortive march on London, and Oliver Cromwell took a few pot shots with his artillery at St Oswald's Church but generally History, like the stage coaches of old, seems to have also treated Ashbourne as a way point. Many important people have stayed at Ashbourne, visited it or passed through it (and during the Napoleonic Wars - were imprisoned here) - but the major upheavals of the past seem to have left it untouched.