Temple Normanton, Derbyshire
Historical Description
Temple Normanton, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Chesterfield parish, Derbyshire, near the M.R., 2½ miles SE of Chesterfield railway station. There is also a station on the M.S. & L.R., about 1 mile from the village. The post office is under Chesterfield; money order and telegraph office, Heath. Acreage, 520; population, 210. The manor belongs to the Arkwright family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £55. The present church, Early English in style, was built in 1882 on the site of an old chapel. There is an endowed school.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Derbyshire | |
Civil parish | Chesterfield | |
Hundred | Scarsdale | |
Poor Law union | Chesterfield |
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.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Temple Normanton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Normanton, Temple)
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Derbyshire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Temple 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: