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A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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CODNOR, a hamlet in Heanor parish, and a chapelry in Heanor, Derby, and Pentrich parishes, and in Codnor-Park extra-parochial tract, Derby. The hamlet lies near the Erewash river, canal, and railway, 2 miles W of Codnor-Park r. station, and 5½ ENE of Belper; and has a post office under Alfreton. Pop., 3, 829. Houses, 736. The chapelry bears the name of Codnor-with-Loscoe; and was constituted in 1844. Rated property, £5, 950. Pop., 2, 219. The property is much subdivided. Many of the inhabitants are employed in stocking-making, in coal-mines, and in iron-works. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £150. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church is modern; and there are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans, national schools, and charities £. 11.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a hamlet" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Pentrich CP/AP Derbyshire AncC |
| Place: | Codnor |
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