Heanor (/ˈhiːnə/) is a town in the
Amber Valley
Amber Valley is a local government district and borough in the east of Derbyshire, England, taking its name from the River Amber. It covers a semi-rural zone with four main towns whose economy was based on coal mining and remains to some exte ...
district of
Derbyshire
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in the
East Midlands of England. It lies north-east of
Derby
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and forms, with the adjacent village of
Loscoe, the
civil parish
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and town council-administered area of Heanor and Loscoe, which had a population of 17,251 in the
2011 census.
History
The name Heanor derives from the
Old English
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''hēan'' (the
dative form of ''hēah'') and ''ofer'', and means "
lace at/nowiki> the high ridge". In the Domesday Book
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of 1086 it was recorded as ''Hainoure'', with its entry stating:
6M In CODNOR and Heanor and Langley n Heanor
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of land to the geld
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efore 1066 here is
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land for as many ploughs. There are now 3 ploughs in demesne, and 11 villains and 2 bordars and 3 sokemen __NOTOC__
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having 5½ ploughs. There is a church and 1 mill endering12d and of meadow ndwoodland pasture 2 leagues long and 3 furlong
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s broad. TRE[in ]Latin
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Tempore Regis Edwardi – in the time of King Edward before the Battle of Hastings
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. worth £4 sterling; now 41s 4d 2.2per year. Warner holds it.
Samuel Lewis's ''A Topographical Dictionary of England'', published in 1848, states that Heanor parish "abounds with coal and ironstone, both worked extensively, the collieries alone affording employment to more than 2000 persons. The town is pleasantly situated upon an eminence, on the road from Derby to Mansfield. The principal articles of manufacture are silk and cotton goods, hosiery, and bobbinet
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lace, providing occupation to about 800 persons." The parish then covered and was in the union of Basford and the hundred
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of Morleston and Litchurch, with Heanor town itself covering with 3,058 inhabitants. The parish church, dedicated to St Mary, was "a very ancient edifice, with a lofty substantial tower, from which is an extensive view," though the dictionary noted there were also "places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Wesleyans, and Ranters".
Heanor Market Place developed in the 1890s after the break-up of the Heanor Hall estate by the Miller Mundy family of nearby Shipley Hall. The Market Place site had been part of Heanor Hall Park and the main focus of trading activity hitherto Tag Hill.
Governance
Civic history
The parish of Heanor formed a local board of health
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in about 1850 to provide services in the town. In 1895, under the Local Government Act 1894
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, the board's area became an urban district. In 1899 Heanor Urban District was enlarged by the neighbouring parish of Codnor and Loscoe. The urban district remained until 1974, when it became part of a new non-metropolitan district
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of Amber Valley
Amber Valley is a local government district and borough in the east of Derbyshire, England, taking its name from the River Amber. It covers a semi-rural zone with four main towns whose economy was based on coal mining and remains to some exte ...
under the Local Government Act 1972. Heanor Urban District had been an unparished area
In England, an unparished area is an area that is not covered by a civil parish (the lowest level of local government, not to be confused with an ecclesiastical parish). Most urbanised districts of England are either entirely or partly unpa ...
,[ but in 1984 three new civil parishes were created in Amber Valley, Heanor being within the civil parish of Heanor and Loscoe the other two parishes Aldercar and Langley Mill and ]Codnor
Codnor is a village and civil parish in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, England. Codnor is a former mining village and had a population of 3,766 (including Cross Hill) taken at the 2011 Census. It is approximately 12 miles from Derby an ...
). In 1987 Heanor and Loscoe Parish Council resolved to designate the parish a town, and so it is now governed by a town council headed by a town mayor.
Current
Since 1984 Heanor has had three tiers of local government
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: Derbyshire County Council at county level, Amber Valley Borough Council
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at district level, and Heanor and Loscoe Town Council at parish level. Heanor falls into two single-member electoral divisions of the County Council, Greater Heanor and Heanor Central. Since the 2017 Derbyshire County Council election
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, both divisions are represented by members of the Conservative Party.
For Amber Valley Borough Council, Heanor and Loscoe civil parish divides into three electoral wards – Heanor East, Heanor West, and Heanor and Loscoe – which each elect two councillors. From 2014 to 2018, all six were from Labour, until the Conservatives narrowly took one seat in both Heanor East and Heanor West at the 2018 local elections, but fell short of taking a seat in Heanor and Loscoe. In the May 2019 local elections, Labour won 13 seats on the town council and the Conservatives 8.
Geography
Measured directly, Heanor town is north-east of Derby and west-north-west of Nottingham
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. It stands on a hill between and above sea-level.[Ordnance Survey (2000), 1:25,000 Explorer Series, Sheet 260 (Nottingham, Vale of Belvoir), ] It lies within the Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire Coalfield National Character Area as defined by Natural England
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.
Heanor and Loscoe civil parish includes all Heanor town except Heanor Gate Science College and a few surrounding streets on the western edge of town (near the road to Smalley), Heanor Gate Industrial Estate to the south west, and a small area of houses on the town's south-eastern fringe near the main road to Ilkeston
Ilkeston is a town in the Borough of Erewash, Derbyshire, England, on the River Erewash, from which the borough takes its name, with a population at the 2011 census of 38,640. Its major industries, coal mining, iron working and lace making/texti ...
. The college and surrounding streets and half the industrial estate are in Smalley civil parish, the other areas in Shipley civil parish.[
Heanor and Loscoe civil parish contains no conservation areas, but 30 per cent of the area lies in a ]green belt
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. The one nature reserve and four wildlife sites are all of local significance.
Economy
The most important economic sector in the town, employing more than 20 per cent of the working population, is manufacturing, with the retail sector employing over 17 per cent. Coal mining and textile
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s used to be major industries, but both declined. In December 2013 the unemployment rate was 2.3 per cent in Heanor East and Heanor and Loscoe wards and 3.5 per cent in Heanor West ward. The average for England at the time was 2.8 per cent.[
The Matthew Walker factory in Heanor Gate Industrial Park, famous for the production of Christmas puddings, was sold in 1992 to the Northern Foods Group. Other companies on the park include Advanced Composites Group, Cullum Detuners Ltd and Isolated Systems Ltd. In 2011 the 2 Sisters Food Group purchased Northern Foods. The Matthew Walker factory is now a part of the 2 Sisters Chilled Division.
Retail chains with a presence include ]Tesco
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,[ ]Aldi
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, and Boyes. A small outdoor market is held on Fridays and Saturdays.
Heanor merges into Langley Mill
Langley Mill is a large village in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, England.
History
Originally named ''Long Lea'', the village of Langley Mill was a major employer throughout the mid 1900s with many companies including The Flour Mi ...
.
Demography
In the 2011 census Heanor and Loscoe civil parish had 7,512 dwellings, 7,221 households and a population of 17,251.[ 18.7 per cent of residents were under the age of 16 (compared to 18.9 per cent for England as a whole) and 16.5 per cent of residents were aged 65 or over (compared to 16.4 per cent for England as a whole). Like Amber Valley as a whole, the population was found to be ethnically less diverse than the average for England; 1.84 per cent of residents were of non-white ethnicity (England: 14.58 per cent). ]Christianity
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was the most prevalent stated religious affiliation (56.4 per cent; England: 59.4 per cent); 35.6 per cent stated they had no religion (England: 24.7 per cent).
Education
Heanor has two infant schools (Corfield Church of England Infant School and Marlpool Infant School), three primary schools (Coppice Primary School, Howitt Primary Community School and Loscoe Church of England Primary School), two junior schools (Marlpool Junior School and Mundy Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School) and one secondary school ( Heanor Gate Spencer Academy).[ Heanor Grammar School, which was just to the east of the market place, was latterly part of ]Derby College
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but is now closed down. A book on the history of the school was published in 2008.
Sport and leisure
Shipley Country Park, a steep wooded knoll
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Places
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bordering the south and west of the town, has a riding school and three lakes surrounding it. The park consists of most of the former estate of the Miller-Mundy family, which until the 1920s held Shipley Hall (demolished in the 1940s). It was then sold for intensive open-cast and deep-seam mining by what became the National Coal Board
The National Coal Board (NCB) was the statutory corporation created to run the nationalised coal mining industry in the United Kingdom. Set up under the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946, it took over the United Kingdom's collieries on "ve ...
, before being restored and handed to the county council in the 1970s.
The local association football team is Heanor Town Football Club (the Lions). Established in 1883, the club belongs to the Northern Counties East League Premier Division
The Northern Counties East Football League is a semi-professional English football league. It has two divisions – Premier Division and Division One – which stand at the ninth and tenth levels of the football pyramid respectively.
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. Its youth team is called Heanor Juniors. Famous ex-players include Nigel Clough
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, who went on to play for Nottingham Forest
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, Liverpool
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and Manchester City and Nigel Pearson, who captained Sheffield Wednesday
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to a League Cup win over Manchester United at Wembley. The club shares grounds with Heanor Town Cricket Club.
Heanor Town Cricket Club: The village has a long history of recreational cricket dating back to 1843. In 2003, Heanor Town Cricket Club amalgamated with Stapleford Town Cricket Club, and by 2018 had to move from their original 'Heanor Town Ground' to the Underwood Miners Welfare ground, on Church Lane. Heanor Town CC fields one senior XI team in the Derbyshire County Cricket League
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The Premier League (legal name: The Football Assoc ...
.
Heanor Clarion Cycling Club was founded in 1934. The club meet on a Wednesday evening most weeks at Aldercar Community Language College.
Transport
Langley Mill
Langley Mill is a large village in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, England.
History
Originally named ''Long Lea'', the village of Langley Mill was a major employer throughout the mid 1900s with many companies including The Flour Mi ...
rail station, one mile east of Heanor town centre, has services to Nottingham
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, Sheffield
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and beyond. Earlier the Midland Railway
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had a line between Shipley Gate and Butterley
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Notable residents
*Sir James Outram, hero of the Indian Mutiny, was born ...
that passed through Heanor, but it was closed to passengers in 1926. The Great Northern Railway had a branch line that terminated in a goods yard and small station in Heanor. This was closed in 1928, though temporarily reopened in 1939.
Bus routes link Heanor with Nottingham
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, Derby
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, Mansfield and other towns and cities in the area. The main operator is Trent Barton
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History
In October 1913, Trent Motor Traction Company was foun ...
with one route run by Notts + Derby
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Services
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. Yourbus formerly ran services.
The nearest international airport is East Midlands Airport
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(18 miles, 29 km).
Media
The district newspaper is the ''Ripley and Heanor News'', which appears on Thursdays.
Notable residents
*Billy Bestwick
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(1875–1938), cricketer, was born in Heanor.
* George William Bissill (1896–1973), painter, grew up in Langley Mill and attended school in Heanor.
*Sir Thomas Bloodworth (1620-1682), merchant and politician, Lord Mayor of London during Great Fire of London, was born at Heanor.[History of Parliament Online – Bludworth, Thomas]
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*Sir Richard William Barnes Clarke (1910–1975), journalist and civil servant, was born in Heanor.
*Henry Garnet
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(1555–1606), Jesuit, born in Heanor, was executed for involvement in the Gunpowder Plot
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.
* William Gregg (1890–1969), born and died in Heanor, was awarded the Victoria Cross
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for bravery in 1918.[GRAVE LOCATION FOR HOLDERS OF THE VICTORIA CROSS IN THE COUNTY OF : DERBYSHIRE]
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*The Howitt brothers: William Howitt
William Howitt (18 December 1792 – 3 March 1879), was a prolific English writer on history and other subjects. Howitt Primary Community School in Heanor, Derbyshire, is named after him and his wife.
Biography
Howitt was born at Heanor, Derbysh ...
(1792–1879), author, Richard
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, poet (1799–1869) and Godfrey, entomologist, (1800–1873) were born in Heanor.
*Mary Howitt
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(1799–1888), author, lived in Heanor.
*Douglas Keen (27 October 1913 – 6 November 2008), designer of Ladybird Books
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, lived in Heanor and created the first title in the kitchen of his house there.
* Samuel Roper (died 1658), antiquary, was born in Heanor.[British History academic site]
accessed 7 October 2007
*Edward Smith Ed, Eddie, Edgar, Edward, Edwin, and similar, surnamed Smith, may refer to:
Military
* Edward H. Smith (sailor) (1889–1961), United States Coast Guard admiral, oceanographer and Arctic explorer
* Edward Smith (VC) (1898–1940), English recipien ...
(1819–1874), physician, medical writer and dietician, was born in Heanor.
* John Varley (1740–1809), canal engineer, supervised construction of the Chesterfield Canal
The Chesterfield Canal is a narrow canal in the East Midlands of England and it is known locally as 'Cuckoo Dyke'. It was one of the last of the canals designed by James Brindley, who died while it was being constructed. It was opened in 1777 a ...
, was born in Heanor.
* Samuel Watson (c. 1662–1715), sculptor, was born in Heanor.
Notable buildings
There are ten structures in Heanor and Loscoe civil parish listed
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* Listed (MMM program), a television show on MuchMoreMusic
* Endangered species in biology
* Listed building, in architecture, designation of a historicall ...
by Historic England
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as of particular architectural or historical interest: two in Loscoe and eight in Heanor. The Church of St Lawrence in Heanor is listed as Grade II*. The other nine, which include Heanor Town Hall, are listed as Grade II. St Lawrence's has 15th-century origins, but was altered in 1866–1868 and about 1980.
Notes and references
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External links
Heanor and District Local History Society
Ripley and Heanor News
Heanor news from the ''Derby Telegraph''
Langley Mill heritage Group
Heanor Local Business Directory
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Towns in Derbyshire
Geography of Amber Valley