Extracts from
Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Rutland & Nottinghamshire 1891
Codnor and Loscoe are hamlets constituting a civil parish. By an order of the County Council and by local government board Order No. 39,199, which came into operation 1st April, 1899. This parish was included in the Heanor Urban District Council. Codnor has a station at Crosshill, on the Heanor & Ripley branch of the Midland railway. The ecclesiastical parish was formed 1st Oct 1844, from the parishes of Denby, Heanor and Pentrich. The church of St. James, erected in 1844, at a cost of £2000, and situated near the railway station, about midway between the two villages, is a plain building of stone, in the gothic style, consisting of chancel and nave, and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing one bell.The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £200 including 4 acres of glebe, with residence in the alternate gift of the Crown and the Bishop of Southwell, and held since 1884 by the Rev. William Bates, Lic. Theol. of University College, Durham. There are Wesleyan, Free Methodist, Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels here. The cemetary comprises about an acre and adjoins the churchyard; it is under the control of the burial board of 9 members formed in 1876. The principal land owners are The Butterley Company Limited, Henry Charles Vickers Hunter Esq. of Kilburne, The Ven, Archdeacon Woolley M.A. rector of east Bergholt, Suffolk, James John Arthur Woolley Esq. And Frederich Channer Corfield Esq. J.P. The soil is clayey, subsoil clayey. The land is principally pasture. The area is 2000 acres; taxable value £12,194; the population in 1881in Codnor was 3,591 and of the ecclesiastical parish 4,436.
Private Residents Commercial | Grainger Henry, Boat Inn (PH) Stoneyford |
Schools
National, erected in 1844 for 150 boys, 130 girls and 150 infants; average attendance, 130 boys, 90 girls and 95 infants, Arthur Floyd Pine, master; Mrs Harriet Pine, mistress, Mrs Eliza Dicken, infants mistress.
United Methodist Free Church, erected in 1872 for 210 boys & girls, & 140 infants, average attendance, 170 boys & girls & 68 infants; William Marriot B.A. master; Miss Elizabeth Jane Martin infants mistress.
Railway Station, Crosshill, George Walters, station master
Codnor Gate hamlet is half a mile north, and is principally in this parish, but a portion is in Ripley parish; Loscoe is 1 mile south. Parish Clerk, William Floyd Pine.
Post, M.O, T.O., S.B. & Annuity & Insurance office - Thomas Farnsworth, postmaster. Letters received from Derby at 6.20am; despatched at 8.55am & 7.10pm. Wall letter boxes, Crosshill, cleared at 6.40pm. Week days only, & Loscoe, cleared 6.30pm. Week days only.
