TEMPLE NORMANTON, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"TEMPLE NORMANTON, a township in the parish of Chesterfield, hundred of Scarsdale, county Derby, 2½ miles S.E. of Chesterfield, its post town, and 3 N.E. of the Clay Cross railway station. The village, which is inconsiderable, is situated on the road from Chesterfield to Mansfield, and is wholly agricultural.

The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £55. The church is an ancient structure, now in a ruinous condition. There is a small endowment for the education of children. R. Arkwright, Esq., is lord of the manor."

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