Normanton le Heath

• 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 and Volume 7 covers the Measham subdistrict.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• 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 and is about 700 years old.
   
• The church was restored about 1853.
   
• The church was renovated in 1895.
   
• The church spire was restored in 1898.
   
• The church seats 150.
   
• The church is a Grade II listed English Heritage building considered "at risk".
   
• Philip JEFFREY has a photograph of Holy ROOD Church on Geo-graph taken in May, 2013.
   

• 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.
   
• There are two Parish Walks in Normanton le Heath. Both start near the church.
   

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You can see the administrative areas in which Normanton le Heath has been placed at times in the past. Select one to see a link to a map of that particular area.

• An Iron Age settlement has been unearthed near the boundary with Heather and Ravenstone.
   
• The Roman road between Leicester and Chester has been found to run directly through Normanton. The Salt Way which ran through Measham can also be traced to Normanton.
   
• This place was not mentioned in the Domesday Book survey of 1056, but is first mentioned in 1209.
   
• 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.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK377127 (Lat/Lon: 52.710656, -1.443414), Normanton le Heath which are provided by:

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• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• OldMaps (Old Ordnance Survey maps.)
• Old Maps Online (Other old maps.)
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
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• 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.
   
• It appears that the parish has elected to have "Parish Meetings" rather than have a "Parish Council." They meet in a parish forum each quarter to decide issues affecting the village and parish.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Ashby-de-la-Zouch petty session hearings.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Poorlaw Union.
   

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.