Place:Heanor, Derbyshire, England

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Heanor is a town and an administrative or civil parish now comprising the settlements of Heanor and Loscoe in the Amber Valley District of Derbyshire, 8 miles (13 km) northeast of the city of Derby. According to the census of 2011 the population of the civil parish was 22,620.

In 1984 three modern civil parishes were created from the previously unparished urban district:

• Aldercar and Langley Mill (including Whatstandwell). In 2011 the parish had a population of 5,405 compared with 4,863 ten years before.
• Codnor. In 2011 the parish had a population of 3,766 compared with 3,836 ten years before.
• Heanor and Loscoe. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 17,251 compared with 16,040 ten years before.

As will be seen below, these villages were combined in a different fashion before 1984.

[edit] Heanor before 1974 The parish of Heanor formed a local board in about 1850 to provide services (such as piped clean water) to the town. In 1895, under the Local Government Act 1894 the board's area became an urban district. In 1899 Heanor Urban District was enlarged with the addition of part of the neighbouring parish of Codnor and Loscoe. The urban district continued in existence until 1974, when it was merged into the new non-metropolitan district of Amber Valley under the Local Government Act 1972. A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Heanor from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72: "HEANOR, a village, a township, and a parish in the [registration] district of Basford and county of Derby. The village stands near the Erewash river, canal, and railway, and the boundary with Notts, 1 mile WSW of Langley mills [railway] station, and 6 E by S of Belper; is lighted with gas, and governed by a board of health; was formerly a market town; and has now a post office under Derby, and fairs on Old Martinmas day and 23 Nov. "The township comprises 1,535 acres. Real property: £8,264; of which £303 are in mines. Population in 1851: 3, 427; in 1861: 4,084. Houses: 846. The increase of population arose from the operations of a building society, and from the extension of coal mining and iron manufacture. "The parish contains also the township of Shipley, and the hamlets of Codnor and Loscoe. Acres: 6,870. Real property: £24,157, of which £6,826 are in mines. Population in 1851: subdivided. "Heanor Hall is the seat of John Ray, Esq. Hosiery and silk blonde lace are extensively manufactured. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value: £169. Patron: the Lord Chancellor. The church is early English; belonged once to Dale abbey; consists of nave, S aisle, and chancel, with a square tower; contains several monuments to the Mundy family, and one to the native sculptor, Samuel Watson; and was recently in rather bad condition. A new cemetery, with two conjoint chapels, surmounted by tower and spire, was opened in 1858. The vicarage of Codnor is a separate benefice. There are chapels for Independents, Baptists, Quakers, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists, a national school, and charities £10.

Langley Mill is a hamlet on the east side of the parish of Heanor. Aldercar is a neighbourhood at the north end of Langley Mill. The Church of St. John the Evangelist was built in the late 19th century in Aldercar as a chapel of ease to the Anglican church in Heanor itself. (Source: GENUKI which provides a 20th century map). Aldercar does not appear on the Ordnance Survey maps of the area.

Research Tips

• Derbyshire Record Office website
• British History Online (Victoria County Histories) does not appear to cover Derbyshire geographically. A History of the County of Derby: Volume 2, edited by William Page is a part-volume covering the religious houses of the county. No further volumes have been found.
• GENUKI main page for Derbyshire which provides information on various topics covering the whole of the county, and also a link to a list of parishes. Under each parish there is a list of the settlements within it and brief description of each. This is a list of pre-1834 ancient or ecclesiastical parishes but there are suggestions as to how to find parishes set up since then. GENUKI provides references to other organizations who hold genealogical information for the local area. There is no guarantee that the website has been kept up to date and therefore the reader should check additional sources if possible.
• The FamilyTree Wiki has a series of pages similar to those provided by GENUKI which may have been prepared at a later date and from more recent data. The wiki has a link to English Jurisdictions 1851 which gives the registration district and wapentake for each parish, together with statistics from the 1851 census for the area.
• A Vision of Britain through Time, Derbyshire, section "Units and Statistics" leads to analyses of population and organization of the county from about 1800 through 1974. There are pages available for all civil parishes, municipal boroughs and other administrative divisions. Descriptions provided are usually based on a gazetteer of 1870-72 which often provides brief notes on the economic basis of the settlement and significant occurences through its history.
• For a more detailed view of a specific area try a map from the following selection. The oldest series are very clear at the third magnification offered. Comparing the map details with the GENUKI details for the same area is well worthwhile. Sections of the 1900 map showing parish boundaries only have been reproduced on some (but not all) parish pages here in WeRelate.

• Map of Derbyshire illustrating urban and rural districts in 1900 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time. Parish boundaries and settlements within parishes are shown.
• Map of Derbyshire urban and rural districts in 1944 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time. Parish boundaries and settlements within parishes are shown. This is not a repeat of the first map. There were some changes in urban and rural district structure in the 1930s.
• Ordnance Survey map of Derbyshire for 1967 This is the last in this series and was made while Derbyshire was experimenting with the non-metropolitan district structure adopted in 1974. It is a much cleaner map for reading the names of the civil parishes, but the smaller villages are no longer visible.

These are only three of the series of maps to be found in A Vision of Britain through Time.

• Wikimedia Commons map of the post-1974 districts of Derbyshire. The numbers will be linked to the districts on the WeRelate district pages.
• Wikimedia Commons often provides a map of the ancient divisions named "hundreds", but there does not appear to be one for Derbyshire. This 1832 Ordnance Survey map from A Vision of Britain through Time is not as good as those in the Wikimedia Commons series.
• Derbyshire family history societies are listed in GENUKI.
• Towns and Villages of Derbyshire and the Peak District is a locally produced website designed for tourists.