NORMANTON, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"NORMANTON, a parish in the hundred of Repton, county Derby, 2 miles S. of Derby, its post town. The village, which is of small extent, is situated near the Birmingham railway, and is chiefly agricultural. A portion of the inhabitants are engaged in framework knitting. The Derby canal crosses the N.E. part of the parish, and the Birmingham and Derby Junction railway intersects it.

The living is a curacy annexed to the vicarage* of St. Peter, Derby, in the diocese of Lichfield. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is partly Norman, but much decayed. The parochial charities produce about £1 per annum. There is a school for children of both sexes. The Independents and Primitive Methodists have each a place of worship."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]