South Normanton, Derbyshire

Historical Description

Normanton, South, a village and a parish in Derbyshire. The village stands 1¼ mile W of the boundary with Notts, and 1½ ENE of Alfreton railway station, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Alfreton. The parish comprises 1934 acres; population, 4192. There is a parish council consisting of ten members. The manor belonged formerly to the Revells, and belongs now to the Radford and Coke families. A market is held on Saturday, and there are coalpits. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £270. The church is of the 14th century, in the Perpendicular and Decorated styles, large and good, and, with the exception of the tower and N aisle, was entirely rebuilt in 1878; it contains a monument to the Revells. There are Wesleyan, Free, and Primitive Methodist chapels, and some charities.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

Ancestry.co.uk, in conjunction with the Derbyshire Record Office, have the Church of England Baptisms (1538-1916), Marriages and Banns (1538-1932), and Burials (1538-1991) online.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for South Normanton from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Normanton, South (St. Mary))
• Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire, 1899

Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Derbyshire is online.

Maps

Online maps of South Normanton are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Derbyshire papers online:

• Derby Daily Telegraph
• Derby Mercury
• Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald
• Derbyshire Courier