1 January 1726: Heavy snow stops the post and kills parson William Baines of Dronfield at Froggatt Moss
John Hobson. 1877. The Journal of Mr. John Hobson, Late of Dodworth Green. Yorkshire Diaries and Autobiographies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Ed. Charles Jackson. Durham: Surtees Society. A (morbid) compendium of everyday England. It is sometimes unclear whether the date given is that of an occurrence or that on which news reached his capacious ears. Get it:
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The night before, and that day, there fell a great snow. The London post stopped two days; the Northern post one day; no passage over the moors to Woodhead. The minister, Mr Baines, of Donfield, lost in the snow nigh Grindle-firth bridge.
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The night before, and that day, there fell a great snow. The London post stopped two days; the Northern post one day; no passage over the moors to Woodhead. The minister, Mr Baines, of Donfield, lost in the snow nigh Grindle-firth bridge.
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· - 📌Dodworth (17) ·
- 📌Dronfield (1), town in North East Derbyshire, in the Drone valley between Chesterfield and Sheffield ·
- Froggatt, Derbyshire (1) ·
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- Hobson, John (32), enthusiastically morbid diarist of Dodworth Green (Barnsley), the date of whose own death is unknown ·
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