NORMANTON by DERBY, Derbyshire
Census
- The parish was in the Shardlow sub-district of the Shardlow Registration District.
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Church History
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Giles.
- The church is on the Village Green in Normanton.
- The church was "beautified" in 1719.
- The church was rebuilt in 1862.
- The church seats 230.
- The church has its own St. Giles Church website, but there appears to be no history at that site.
- There is a photograph of the Serbian Orthodox Church on Panoramio.
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Church Records
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1813. Entries prior to that date can be found in the registers of Saint Peter's Church in Derby.
- Marriages at Normanton by Derby, 1769-1812 are available in Nigel Batty-Smith's database of scanned images of
Phillimore's Parish Registers.
- The church was in the rural deanery of Derby.
- The Congregationalists built a small chapel here prior to 1891.
- The Primitive Methodists had a small chapel here prior to 1857.
- In the 20th century, the parish has seen a number of new mosques and temples appear. The are also Polish, Ukranian and Serbian churches.
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Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Shardlow sub-district of the Shardlow Registration District.
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Description and Travel
"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."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of
Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
The parish is now one of the southern suburbs of Derby city.
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Directories
- Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Normanton entry in Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).
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Gazetteers
- The transcription of the section for Normanton from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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History
- The name implies that this place was a Viking settlement circa 900 AD.
- Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Normanton by Barbarann Ayars.
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Military History
- The Regimental District No.45, depot of the Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment), had its barracks here on 14 acres of ground. The barracks were built in 1878.
- In 1891 the Commanding Officer was Col. H. H. HOOKE. Colonel HOOKE was born in Ireland circa 1842 and married his wife Lucy, also Irish-born, around 1880. Colonel HOOKE had served in the Abyssinian Camapign in 1868. In 1890, the London Gazette tells us he was promoted from Lieutenant-Colonel to full Colonel.
- The barracks were demolished in 1981.
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Politics and Government
- This parish was in the ancient Repton and Greasley Hundred (or Wapentake).