Temple Normanton

Temple Normanton is served by the Mobile Library on route N, which makes a stop on Springwood Street every fourth Wednesday in the afternoon.

• David BEVIS has a photograph of the Mortuary chapel at Geo-graph, taken in 2011.

• The parish was in the Chesterfield sub-district of the Chesterfield Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint James the Apostle.
   
• The church was built in 1882 on the site of an older chapel.
   
• There had been a chapel here since the days of the Knights Templer in the 12th century. Their chapel was rebuilt, retaining a portion of the original building, in 1623. That chapel stood until it was pulled down to build St. James' Church.
   
• The stone church suffered from subsidence due to coal mining and was replaced by a wooden church in 1922.
   
• Alas, Temple Normanton is a windy area, and wooden buildings are oft damaged by high winds. A new fibreglass replacement was erected in 1986, designed to hold up to the forces of nature.
   
• Peter BARR has a photograph of the new St. James Church at Geo-graph, taken in March, 2012.
   
• Nikki MAHADEVAN has a photograph of the new St. James Church at Geo-graph, taken in September, 2006.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1882. Prior entries will be found in the registers of Chesterfield.
   
• Michael SPENCER has an extract of Parish Register burials for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Chesterfield.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Chesterfield sub-district of the Chesterfield Registration District.

"TEMPLE NORMANTON, a township in the parish of Chesterfield, hundred of Scarsdale, county Derby, 2½ miles S.E. of Chesterfield, its post town, and 3 N.E. of the Clay Cross railway station. The village, which is inconsiderable, is situated on the road from Chesterfield to Mansfield, and is wholly agricultural.

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin HINSON ©2003]

The parish lies 155 miles north of London just south of the A617 trunk road and covers only about 500 acres. Michael PATTERSON has a photograph of the Old 167 road at Geo-graph, taken in 2000.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Temple Normanton entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• Mel LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Chesterfield entry from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831. it is on this page that Normanton (Temple) is noted.
   
• Colin HINSON provides the transcription of the section for Temple Normanton from the National Gazetteer (1868).

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Temple Normanton to another place.

• Most of the parish land was given over to pasturage.
   
• Barbarann AYARS has transcribed the section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Chesterfield, and includes a portion on Temple Normanton.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK415675 (Lat/Lon: 53.202961, -1.38017), Temple Normanton which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

There is a Roll of Honour in the foyer of St James the Apostles Church. It holds the 73 names of service personnel from World War II, including one death. The names do not appear to have been posted online. The roll had been formerly kept at the Working Mens' Club in the village.

Be sure to check out John BRUNT's Coroner's report on the Darley parish page.

Stephen KIMBERLEY reports that the Derbyshire Times of 19th August 1999 has an obituary for: CUTTS Florence Rachel Hetty 72 Temple Normanton.

• This place was an ancient township and chapelry in Chesterfield parish in Derby county.
   
• This place became a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• The Temple Normanton Parish Council has a contact form online at the parish website.
   
• This parish was partly in the ancient Scarsdale Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• The parish is also part of the North East Derby District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Chesterfield petty session hearings.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms, this parish became a member of the Chesterfield Poorlaw Union.

A Public Elementary School (mixed) was built here in 1878 and enlarged in 1898 for 72 children.

A second Public Elementary School (mixed and infants) was erected in 1902 for 170 children.

Roger TEMPLE has a photograph of the Dunston Primary School on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2006.

The Temple Normanton Junior Academy is on Elm Street, Temple Normanton, Chesterfield, S42 5DW.

• Chesterfield and District Family History Society - also covers Barlow, Brampton, Hasland, Newbold, Temple Normanton and Whittington.