HEANOR, Derbyshire
Church History
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Lawrence.
- The church traces its history back to a church mentioned in the 1086 Domesday survey. The church has its own Website with a history timeline.
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Church Records
- We have a pop-up window of a handful of Parish Register marriages in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
- There are also Heanor Baptisms, 1816-1837 at Taghill.
- The Primitive Methodists built a small chapel here in 1819.
- The Society of Friends (Quakers) built a meeting-house here in 1834.
- The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1839.
- The General Baptists built a small chapel here in 1849. Their chapel is on Derby Road.
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Description and Travel
"HEANOR is a neat village and populous township, in the parish of its name, and in the same hundred as Ilkeston, about four miles N.N.W. from that town, eight and a half N.E. from Derby, and eight S. from Alfreton. This place, which was formerly a market-town, is pleasantly situate on an eminence, and the eastern boundary of the parish is watered by the Erewash river. Many of the inhabitants are employed in the neighbouring coal works, and others in the manufacture of lace."
[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]
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Directories
- A Description of Heanor has been transcribed by Heather Faulkes from Pigot's Directory of 1828.
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Gazetteers
- The transcription of the section for Heanor from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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History
- Heanor was a coal mining parish. See Heanor History.
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Newspapers
- Here are some fragments of local history from the Derby Mercury newspaper.
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Politics and Government
- This parish was in the ancient Morleston and Litchurch Hundred (or Wapentake).