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The register office that covers Codnor up until and including 1936 is at Basford, here are the contact details - 

Basford District Register Office

Highbury Road
Bulwell
Nottingham
NG6 9DA

Tel: 0115 9271294            Open: Mon-Fri 9.30am - 4.00pm
Fax: 0115 9771845

From 1st April 1937 the records are held at Ilkeston register office -

Ilkeston Register Office

87 Lord Haddon Road, 

Ilkeston 

DE7 8AX 
Tel: 0115 932 1014 

CODNOR
Cotenovre in Doomsday. A small hamlet in the Deanery of Derby and parish of Heanor. There are the ruins of early 13th century castle. Seat of Grey family until Henry VII 1496 when it passed to Sir John Zouch. It afterwards became the property of the Masters.

HEANOR
Parish contains the hamlets of Codnor, Loscoe, Langley, Milnhay and Shipley. There was a church at Hainoure at Doomsday. In the reign of Henry II there was also a chapel belonging to the parish of St. Mary, Derby.

There was considerable mining in the Codnor area in the past. Much of it centred on pits own by the Butterley Company. They had (and still have) a large foundry and engineering works in Ripley. The mines in Codnor produced both coal and ironstone. Some had ceased production by the late 1870's having been worked for 50 years before that. I am only including those in this list that would have still been operating in the 1880's
Forty Horse Colliery owned by the Butterely Company. This closed around 1890. High Holborn Colliery (Butterely Co again) This employed 50 men and closed in 1909 due to flooding.
Brittain Colliery sunk in 1845 this closed in 1946. The round brick headstock and winding gear can still be seen, as this pit is now part of the Midland Steam Railway Museum. Waingroves Colliery employed 250 men and closed in May 1922 after a strike. Ripley Colliery (Butterely Co) sunk in 1864. Closed October 1949.
All of these were in about 15 to 30 minutes walk of Mill Lane. There were many other pits in the Loscoe and Heanor area, which may have employed your ancestors. Men from Codnor would often work just across the border in Nottinghamshire in the pits around Eastwood and Jacksdale.

The Bishop of Litchfield consecrated St.James’ Church on 10th October 1844.  Codnor and Loscoe were made an ecclesiastical parish in that year. It had previously been part of the parishes of Heanor, Denby, and Pentrich.
There was also a Bethesda Methodist Church in the Market Place (built in 1854), a Wesleyan Chapel in Chapel Street (now called Heanor road) built in 1827 and demolished in 1967, a Primitive Methodist Chapel in Needham Street built in 1857 this transferred to a new building in Wright Street in 1880. This new chapel was demolished in about 1968. There was also a Christian Science Church. The headmistress of Mill Lane Infant School around the early 1900’s started this, but the building was not erected until 1935.
There is a new Methodist Chapel on Mill Lane itself built in 1980 on the site of the old Sunday school buildings (Tin Tabernacles).

            Population  for CODNOR AND LOSCOE (DERBY), NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

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