Normanton le Heath
Description in 1871:
"NORMANTON-LE-HEATH, a chapelry in Nailstone parish, Leicester; 1¾ mile E of the boundary with Warwick, and 2½ S E by S of Ashby-de-la-Zouch r. station. Post-town, Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Acres, 1, 320. Real property, £2, 680. Pop., 178. Houses, 36. The property belongs to Lord Belper. The chapelry is a meet for the Atherstone hounds. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £210.* Patron, the Crown. The church is ancient; was restored in 1853; and has a tower and spire, beautiful windows, and an old carved screen. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school."
[John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales", 1870-72]
Caution: Normanton is a common village name in the Danelaw region of England. There is even a second one in Leicestershire.
- The parish was in the Measham subdistrict of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Registration District.
- The 1851 census for Leicestershire has been indexed by the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society. The whole index is available on microfiche. The society has also published it in print.
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to The Holy Trinity.
- The church is considered "an old building" and has a spire with 2 bells. The church was built during the reign of Edward III.
- The church was restored about 1853.
- The church was renovated in 1895.
- The church spire was restored in 1898.
- The church seats 150.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1695 but the early years have been defaced.
- The church is in the rural deanery of South Akeley.
- The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel here prior to 1849.
- The parish was in the Measham subdistrict of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Registration District.
- Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
Normanton le Heath is a small village, a township and a parish about 116 miles north of London, 16 miles west-northwest of Leicester city, and just 1.5 miles northwest of Ibstock. The parish covers about 1,366 acres and borders Derbyshire.
A small beck (stream) exits the south side of the village heading for the River Sence. If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the A447 to Ibstock and turn west onto the B591. At Heather, continue past the north side of the village and on about 1.5 miles to Normanton le Heath.
- By the mid-1850s, the local coal mines had been worked out. Most of the inhabitants of this parish were farmers in the latter half of the 1800s.
- The web page author could find no description of a Manor House or Hall in Normanton le Heath.
- The national grid reference is SK 3810.
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has a scale of 2.5 inches to the mile.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- This place was a Chapelry in Nailstone parish for centuries, but was incorporated as a Civil Parish in 1852.
- The parish was in the ancient Sparkenhoe Hundred in the western division of the county.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1841 |
235 |
| 1871 |
156 |
| 1881 |
162 |
| 1891 |
166 |
| 1901 |
134 |
| 1911 |
143 |
| 1921 |
156 |
| 1931 |
143 |
| 1951 |
113 |
| 1961 |
102 |
- The parish built a Public Elementary School (National School) in 1846 to hold up to 40 children.
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[Created: 30-July-2009 - Louis R. Mills]
