| Heanor | |
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 Heanor Town Hall (left), with St Lawrence's Church (right) | |
  Heanor Location withinDerbyshire | |
| Population | 17,251 Whole administrative parish (2011 census)[1] |
| OS grid reference | SK 43334 46528 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Areas of the town | List
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| Post town | HEANOR |
| Postcode district | DE75 |
| Dialling code | 01773 |
| Police | Derbyshire |
| Fire | Derbyshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
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Heanor (/ˈhiːnə/) is a town in theAmber Valley district ofDerbyshire, England. It lies 8 miles (13 km) north-east ofDerby and forms, with the adjacent village ofLoscoe, thecivil parish and town council-administered area ofHeanor and Loscoe, which had a population of 17,251 in the2011 census.
The name Heanor derives from theOld Englishhēan (thedative form ofhēah) andofer, and means "[place at] the high ridge". In theDomesday Book of 1086 it was recorded asHainoure,[2] with its entry stating:
6M In CODNOR and Heanor and Langley [in Heanor] and 'Smithycote' [in Codnor Park] 8 thegns had 7carucates of land to thegeld [before 1066]. [There is] land for as many ploughs. There are now 3 ploughs in demesne, and 11 villains and 2bordars and 3sokemen having 5½ ploughs. There is a church and 1 mill [rendering] 12d and 35 acres (140,000 m2) of meadow [and] woodland pasture 2leagues long and 3furlongs broad. TRE[3] worth £4 sterling; now 41s 4d [£2.2] per year. Warner holds it.[4]
Samuel Lewis'sA 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 toMansfield. The principal articles of manufacture are silk and cotton goods, hosiery, andbobbinet lace, providing occupation to about 800 persons." The parish then covered 7,000 acres (2,800 ha) and was in the union ofBasford and thehundred of Morleston andLitchurch, with Heanor town itself covering 1,500 acres (610 ha) 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".[5]
Heanor Market Place developed in the 1890s after the break-up of the Heanor Hall estate by the Miller Mundy family of nearbyShipley Hall. The Market Place site had been part of Heanor Hall Park and the main focus of trading activity hitherto Tag Hill.[6]
The parish of Heanor formed alocal board of health in about 1850 to provide services in the town. In 1895, under theLocal Government Act 1894, the board's area became anurban district. In 1899 Heanor Urban District was enlarged by the neighbouring parish of Codnor and Loscoe.[7][8] The urban district remained until 1974, when it became part of a newnon-metropolitan district ofAmber Valley under theLocal Government Act 1972.[9] On 1 April 1974 the parish was abolished and it became anunparished area.[10][9] In 1961 the parish had a population of 23,870.[11] In 1984 three new civil parishes were created in Amber Valley, Heanor being within the civil parish of Heanor and Loscoe the other two parishesAldercar and Langley Mill andCodnor). In 1987 Heanor and Loscoe Parish Council resolved to designate the parish a town,[n 1] and so it is now governed by a town council headed by a town mayor.[12]
Since 1984 Heanor has had three tiers oflocal government:Derbyshire County Council at county level,Amber Valley Borough Council 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 the2017 Derbyshire County Council election, both divisions are represented by members of theConservative Party.[13]
For Amber Valley Borough Council, Heanor and Loscoe civil parish divides into threeelectoral 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.[14] In the May 2019 local elections, Labour won 13 seats on the town council and the Conservatives 8.[15]
Measured directly, Heanor town is 8 miles (13 km) north-east of Derby and 9.5 miles (15.3 km) west-north-west ofNottingham.[16][17] It stands on a hill between 65 metres (213 ft) and 125 metres (410 ft) above sea-level.[18] It lies within the Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire CoalfieldNational Character Area as defined byNatural England.[19]
Heanor and Loscoe civil parish includes all Heanor town exceptHeanor Gate Spencer Academy and a few surrounding streets on the western edge of town (near the road toSmalley), 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 toIlkeston. The college and surrounding streets and half the industrial estate are in Smalley civil parish, the other areas inShipley civil parish.[18]
Heanor and Loscoe civil parish contains noconservation areas, but 30 per cent of the area lies in agreen belt. The one nature reserve and four wildlife sites are all of local significance.[20]
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 andtextiles 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.[20]
The Matthew Walker factory in Heanor Gate Industrial Park, famous for the production of Christmas puddings, was sold in 1992 to theNorthern 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 includeTesco,[20]Aldi,[21] andBoyes.[22] A small outdoor market is held on Fridays and Saturdays.[23]
Heanor merges intoLangley Mill.
In the2011 census Heanor and Loscoe civil parish had 7,512 dwellings,[24] 7,221 households and a population of 17,251.[1] 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).[25] 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).[26]Christianity 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).[27]
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).[20] Heanor Grammar School, which was just to the east of the market place, was latterly part ofDerby College but is currently closed. The site of the former school was purchased from private ownership by Amber Valley Borough Council, with assistance of a Future High Streets Fund grant.
A book on the history of the school was published in 2008.[28]
Shipley Country Park, a steep woodedknoll 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 heldShipley Hall (demolished in the 1940s). It was then sold for intensive open-cast and deep-seam mining by what became theNational Coal Board, before being restored and handed to the county council in the 1970s.
The local association football team isHeanor Town Football Club (the Lions). Established in 1883, the club belongs to theNorthern Counties East League Premier Division. Its youth team is called Heanor Juniors. Famous ex-players includeNigel Clough, who went on to play forNottingham Forest,Liverpool andManchester City and Nigel Pearson, who captainedSheffield Wednesday to a League Cup win overManchester 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.[29] Heanor Town CC fields one senior XI team in theDerbyshire County Cricket League.[30]
Heanor Clarion Cycling Club was founded in 1934. The club meet on a Wednesday evening most weeks at Aldercar Community Language College.[31]
Langley Mill rail station, one mile (1.6 km) east of Heanor town centre, has services toNottingham,Sheffield and beyond. Earlier theMidland Railway had a line between Shipley Gate andButterley that passed through Heanor, but it was closed to passengers in 1926. TheGreat 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 withNottingham,Derby,Mansfield and other towns and cities in the area. The main operator isTrent Barton with one route run byNotts + Derby.Yourbus formerly ran services.
The nearest international airport isEast Midlands Airport (18 miles, 29 km).
Local news and television programmes are provided byBBC East Midlands andITV Central. Television signals are received from theWaltham TV transmitter.[32]
Local radio stations areBBC Radio Derby,Smooth East Midlands,Capital Midlands,Hits Radio East Midlands,Greatest Hits Radio Midlands andAmber Sound FM, a community based radio station.[33]
The district newspaper was theRipley and Heanor News, it appeared on Thursdays but was amalgamated into theDerbyshire Times in 2021.[34][35]
There are ten structures in Heanor and Loscoe civil parishlisted byHistoric England 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 includeHeanor Town Hall, are listed as Grade II.[47] St Lawrence's has 15th-century origins, but was altered in 1866–1868 and about 1980.[48]
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