Normanton by Derby

We recommend the Derby Free Library and Museum, built in 1879, as the free gift of Michael Thomas BASS esq. M.P.

Jerry EVANS has a photograph of the Derby Central Library on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2008.

A small parcel of land, just over 4 acres, was purchased in in 1899 for a cemetery. It had one mortuary chapel.

The Parish Council is the Burial Board.

Malcolm NEAL has a photograph of Normanton Cemetery on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2018.

• The parish was in the Shardlow sub-district of the Shardlow Registration District.
   
• The 1066 "census" showed this village to hold: "20 villagers. 6 smallholders. 1 priest."
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Giles.
   
• The church is on the Village Green in Normanton.
   
• The church was "beautified" in 1719.
   
• The church was rebuilt in 1862.
   
• The church of St. Giles was enlarged in 1903.
   
• The church now seats 600.
   
• The church has its own St. Giles Church website, but there appears to be no history at that site.
   
• David SMITH has a photograph of St. Giles Church on Geo-Graph, taken in December, 2018.
   
• Nikki MAHADEVAN also has a photograph of St. Giles Church on Geo-Graph, taken in February, 2007.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1813. Entries prior to that date can be found in the registers of Saint Peter's Church in Derby.
   
• Marriages at Normanton by Derby, 1769-1810 are available in Nigel BATTY-SMITH's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Derby.
   
• The Congregationalists built a small chapel here in 1870.
   
• The Primitive Methodists had a small chapel here prior to 1857.
   
• David DIXON has a photograph of the relatively new Bethel United Church of Jesus Christ on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2017.
   
• Jonathan THACKER also has a photograph of Bethel United Church of Jesus Christ on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2015.
   
• In the 20th century, the parish has seen a number of new mosques and temples appear. The are also Polish, Ukranian and Serbian churches.
   
• Graham HOGG has a photograph of the Sikh temple on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2012.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Shardlow sub-district of the Shardlow Registration District.

Normanton was a village and parish just 2 miles south of Derby city'a Market Place.

The parish is now one of the southern suburbs of Derby city.

Philip GRIMSHAW has a photograph of Normanton Park on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2005.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Normanton entry in Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

"NORMANTON, a parish in the hundred of Repton, county Derby, 2 miles S. of Derby, its post town. The village, which is of small extent, is situated near the Birmingham railway, and is chiefly agricultural. A portion of the inhabitants are engaged in framework knitting. The Derby canal crosses the N.E. part of the parish, and the Birmingham and Derby Junction railway intersects it."

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

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Normanton by Derby to another place.

• The name implies that this place was a Viking settlement circa 900 AD.
   
• Normanton is mentioned twice in the 1086 Domesday Book.
   
• Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Normanton by Barbarann AYARS.
   
• Richard VINCE has a photograph of the Pear Tree Inn on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2019.
   
• David DIXON has a photograph of the Norman Arms Pub. on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2017.
   
• Ian CALDERWOOD has a photograph of The Greyhound Hotel on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2012.
   
• Ian CALDERWOOD also has a photograph of The Cavendish Hotel on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2014.
   
• "Victuallers" has a photograph of the Clock Tower which opened in 1909 on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2009.
   

In the 1740s the Dixie family had Normanton Hall built.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK336331 (Lat/Lon: 52.894304, -1.502009), Normanton by Derby which are provided by:

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• 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)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
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• Normanton Barracks were built between 1874 and 1877 as a result of the Cardwell Reforms to localise British Military forces. During World War One, the barracks became Normanton Barracks Red Cross Hospital. During the Second World War the barracks were significantly expanded. They were decommissioned in 1963 and then demolished in 1981. During the 1901 census, there were 202 people in the barracks.
   
• The Regimental District No. 45, depot of the Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment), had its barracks here in 1877.
   
• In 1891 the Commanding Officer was Col. H. H. HOOKE. Colonel HOOKE was born in Ireland circa 1842 and married his wife Lucy, also Irish-born, around 1880. Colonel HOOKE had served in the Abyssinian Campaign in 1868. In 1890, the London Gazette tells us he was promoted from Lieutenant-Colonel to full Colonel.
   
• In 1891, Lieutenant Lionel Arthur BOSANQUET, born in January 1862, resided in Normanton. In the 1901 census he is a Captain, married to Alice Emily CAMPBELL. He would eventually rise to the rank of Lt-Colonel and die in French Guiana in August, 1915.
   
• David SMITH has a photograph of the War Memorial in St. Giles Churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2018.

There is a plaque inscribed "To the Glory of God and in loving memory of my dear son William Edward SLATER who died of wounds in France May 4, 1917, aged 21 years." The plaque was discovered in the Summer of 2016 amongst débris while an allotment was being cleared for re-use.

• This place was an ancient Chapelry in Derbyshire and it was incorporated as a modern Civil Parish some time before 1901.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Repton and Greasley Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• By the "Derby Corporation Act of 1901" the most populous portion of Normanton civil parish (including the occupants of the barracks) was added to the civil parish and county of Derby.
   
• In April, 1928, this Civil Parish was abolished and the land divided between Derby, Littleover and Sinfin Moor Civil Parishes. Much of Normanton became a Ward in Derby city.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Derby petty session hearings.
   
• As a result of the Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became a member of the Shardlow Poorlaw Union.
   
• Some time before 1912, the parish became part of the Derby Poorlaw Union.

Under the provisions of the "Education Act, 1902," the school was managed by a school Board of 6 members, including F. O. WILSON and Wm. HAWKE.

A Public Elementary School (mixed and infants) was erected in 1879