North Wingfield is a large village and

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in the

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district in the county of

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, England. Located approximately 4½ miles south-east of Chesterfield, and 1 mile north-east of

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. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was 6,505. The A6175 road from the

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to the

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runs through the village. The village contains the former hamlets of Hepthorne Lane, Hillyfields, Highfields and Church Hill. The Hepthorne Lane area is still called by its name by local residents, as are the Highfields and Church Hill areas. The River Rother flows through the village at the bottom of Hepthorne Lane, next to the

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Brief history

During the

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in 1086 the manor of North Wingfield was recorded as ''Winnefelt''. It was noted that there was a church and a priest. Parts of the current church, dedicated to St. Lawrence, date from the

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, with some features being

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in origin. At that time the manor of North Wingfield was in the possession of Walter De Ayncourt. The name eventually became shortened to ''Deincourt'', which was used by the village's

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, Deincourt Community School from 1953 until it closed in 2010. Both North Wingfield and

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have forms of the same place-name, formed from "winn" (pasture) and "feld" (open land). The earlier forms of each are not distinguished but in 1284 a Middle English form of South Wingfield occurs. (North) Wingfield is found in Anglo-Saxon records, while the records of (South) Wingfield begin with the Domesday Book.

The village

Located in the former

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s, the village was served by several collieries for most of its recent history. Now, partly due to its location near to the

and its school, the village has experienced an influx of residents in recent years, and many housing developments have taken place. The village now only has a primary school, following the closure of Deincourt Community School.

Schools

There was a secondary school in North Wingfield – Deincourt Community School - from 1953 to 2010. In November 2007,

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placed Deincourt Community School under 'special measures', due to inspectors' concerns about falling standards at the school. This gave

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the opportunity to implement plans to close the school, which, with only 473 students at that time, they felt to be too small to be viable. The proposal was to transfer the students to Tibshelf School, which would be re-built on a new larger site under the

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scheme. This school building scheme was scrapped by Educational Minister

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when a Conservative-led coalition Government was elected in 2010. Between 2008 and 2010, Deincourt School was in a ‘federation', that is to say a loose merger, with Tibshelf School. Despite the cancellation of the Building Schools for the Future Scheme, and the fact that in its 2009 Inspection report the school was rated as a ‘Good’ School, the process of closing the school was continued. The school therefore closed in July 2010, and was integrated into Tibshelf School. Because of the lack of space at Tibshelf School, students continued to be taught at the Deincourt Site in North Wingfield until June 2012. Because of the overcrowding caused by the merger with the already overcrowded Tibshelf school, Derbyshire County Council itself funded a new build school in Tibshelf, which opened in November 2013. North Wingfield Primary School was founded in Victorian times; it was formerly an infant and junior school on a split site. The original Victorian building has now been demolished and a new school has been built on the old Deincourt site.

Neighbouring settlements

Neighbouring settlements are

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Grassmoor Grassmoor is a village in Derbyshire, England, approximately three miles to the south of Chesterfield. Its original name, according to 16th-century parish records, was ''Gresmore''. The appropriate civil parish is called Grassmoor, Hasland and ...

Holmewood Holmewood is a village in the North East Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England. Historically a coal mining village, it has close links to the villages of Heath, Derbyshire, Heath, North Wingfield and Temple Normanton. It is in the civil p ...

, Pilsley, Danesmoor and

. North Wingfield is quite a distance away from its counterpart

, which is around 11 miles southwards.

Facilities

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* Two GP

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* Newsagents *

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* Midlands Co-operative Society

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centre * Community Resource Centre * Various locally-run shops * Recycling facilities

References

External links

North Wingfield Parish Council

Deincourt Community School home page

Website with additional photographs of the village and surrounding areas
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