Extracts from
Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire 1922
Codnor & 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 include 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 £300, with residence in the alternate gift of the Crown and the Bishop of Southwell, and held since 1914 by the Rev. Samuel Elder M.A of Trinity College Dublin. There are Wesleyan, United Methodist and Primitive Methodist chapels and a church reading room. The principal land owners are the Butterley Company Limited, the trustees of the late Ven. Archdeacon Woolley D.D. (died 1892) and James John Arthur Woolley esq. J.P. The land is principally pasture. The area is 1,917 acres of land and 14 of water: rateable value, £20,026: The population in 1911 was 4,562 and of the ecclesiastical parish, 5,433.
Private Residents
Commercial | Haines William, Jessop Arms (PH) |
Schools
Council ( formerly the United Methodist school ), erected in 1872, reorganized 1910, for 240 infants: Miss E North, infants mistress
Council (mixed), erected in 1912, for 320 boys & girls; Colin B, Wood, master
Church Elementary, erected in 1844, for 161 boys, 130 girls, & 150 infants; Arthur Floyd Pine, master.
Transport
Railway Station, Crosshill
Tramway cars, to & from Nottingham & Ripley, run through the parish half-hourly.
Post M.O.,T. & T.E.D. office, Codnor - Sidney Severn sub-postmaster. Letters received from Derby.
