Extracts from

History, Gazetteer & Directory of Derbyshire. By Samuel Bagshaw 1846

Codnor and Loscoe (new) parish contains 2000 acres of good strong clay freehold land and 1738 inhabitants, of the rateable value of £2682. The principal owners are C.V. Hunter Esq.; James, John and Samuel Woolley; Thomas Clarke; Joseph Stirland; Kohn Else; The Butterley Company, and others. The inhabitants are principally employed in farming, or in the coal and ironstone mines.

Codnor is a considerable village on the Alfreton and Nottingham road, 4¾ miles S.E. from Alfreton, and contains 251 houses and 1314 inhabitants, of whom 689 were males, and 625 were females. The church dedicated to St. James, is a neat plain structure, built by subscription and grants from various societies, at a cost of £2000, including a neat school near the church, and was consecrated in 1844 by the Bishop of Lichfield. It has a Nave, Chancel, Tower, and one Bell, and will seat 400 persons, of which 250 are free and unappropriated. The living is a perpetual curacy of the value of £150 per annum, in the patronage of the Crown and the Bishop of Lichfield alternately. The Rev. Henry Middleton, the first incumbent, appointed by the Crown; and the district was declared, by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, to be a district parish for all civil and ecclesiastical purposes. A Methodist chapel was built in 1827.

Those marked “1” reside at Codnor, the others at Loscoe.