Heanor

The name Heanor derives from the Old English hēan (the dative form of hēah) and ofer, and means "[place at] the high ridge". In the Domesday Book of 1086 it was recorded as Hainoure,{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tXucAQAAQBAJ&dq=heanor+dictionary+place+names+mills&pg=PA232 |title=A Dictionary of British Place Names |editor=David Mills |year=2011 |orig-year=1991 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-852758-9}} with its entry stating:

6M In CODNOR and Heanor and Langley [in Heanor] and 'Smithycote' [in Codnor Park] 8 thegns had 7 carucates of land to the geld [before 1066]. [There is] land for as many ploughs. There are now 3 ploughs in demesne, and 11 villains and 2 bordars and 3 sokemen having 5½ ploughs. There is a church and 1 mill [rendering] 12d and {{convert|35|acre|m2}} of meadow [and] woodland pasture 2 leagues long and 3 furlongs broad. TREin Latin Tempore Regis Edwardi – in the time of King Edward before the Battle of Hastings. worth £4 sterling; now 41s 4d [£2.2] per year. Warner holds it.[http://www.domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SK4346/heanor/ Domesday Map] {{webarchive |url=https://archive.today/20130717083619/http://www.domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SK4346/heanor/ |date=17 July 2013}} Retrieved 2013-07-16.

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 lace, providing occupation to about 800 persons." The parish then covered {{convert|7000|acre|ha}} and was in the union of Basford and the hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, with Heanor town itself covering {{convert|1500|acre|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".{{Cite book |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-dict/england/pp456-459 |title=A Topographical Dictionary of England |editor=Samuel Lewis |pages=456–459 |publisher=British History Online |year=1848 |access-date=9 April 2016}}

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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.heanorhistory.org.uk/v2market.html |title=Heanor Market Place |publisher=Heanor & District Local History Society |access-date=18 April 2016}}

The parish of Heanor formed a local board of health in about 1850 to provide services in the town. In 1895, under the Local Government Act 1894, the board's area became an urban district. In 1899 Heanor Urban District was enlarged by the neighbouring parish of Codnor and Loscoe.{{Cite web |url=http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/makepdf.asp?fn=E:\ZYIMAGE\DATA\HISTDIR\TIF\BCL15026tif\0000A2QR.TIF |title=Heanor |year=1912 |work=Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire |page=296 |publisher=Historical Directories |access-date=1 June 2010}}{{Cite book |last=Youngs |first=Frederic A Jr. |title=Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol.2: Northern England |year=1991 |page=77 |publisher=Royal Historical Society |location=London |isbn=0-86193-127-0}} The urban district remained until 1974, when it became part of a new non-metropolitan district of Amber Valley under the Local Government Act 1972.{{Cite book |title=Local government in England and Wales: A Guide to the New System |year=1974 |publisher=HMSO |page=40 |location=London |isbn=0-11-750847-0}} On 1 April 1974 the parish was abolished and it became an unparished area.{{cite web|url=https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/ilkeston.html|title=Ilkeston Registration District|publisher=UKBMD|accessdate=24 April 2024}} In 1961 the parish had a population of 23,870.{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10070480/cube/TOT_POP|title=Population statistics Heanor AP/CP through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=24 April 2024}} 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). In 1987 Heanor and Loscoe Parish Council resolved to designate the parish a town,{{#tag:ref |Under section 245 of the 1972 Act|group=n}} and so it is now governed by a town council headed by a town mayor.[https://www.heanorloscoetowncouncil.gov.uk/about-heanor-and-loscoe.html Town Council site. Retrieved 7 April 2020.]

Since 1984 Heanor has had three tiers of local 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 the 2017 Derbyshire County Council election, both divisions are represented by members of the Conservative Party.{{Cite web |url=http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/council/councillors/ |title=Councillors |publisher=Derbyshire County Council |access-date=16 June 2010}}

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.2018 borough election results [https://www.belpernews.co.uk/news/local-elections-2018-full-ward-ward-election-results-amber-valley-1033545 Retrieved 7 April 2020.] In the May 2019 local elections, Labour won 13 seats on the town council and the Conservatives 8.2019 local elections [https://www.ambervalley.gov.uk/councillors-and-elections/elections/local-elections/parish-elections-results/2-may-2019/ Retrieved 7 April 2020.]

Measured directly, Heanor town is {{convert|8|mi|km}} north-east of Derby and {{convert|9.5|mi|km}} west-north-west of Nottingham.Ordnance Survey (2001), 1:50,000 Landranger Series, Sheet 128 (Derby & Burton upon Trent), {{ISBN|0-319-22540-2}}Ordnance Survey (1996), 1:50,000 Landranger Series, Sheet 129 (Nottingham & Loughborough area), {{ISBN|0-319-22129-6}} It stands on a hill between {{convert|65|metres|ft}} and {{convert|125|metres|ft}} above sea-level.Ordnance Survey (2000), 1:25,000 Explorer Series, Sheet 260 (Nottingham, Vale of Belvoir), {{ISBN|0-319-21896-1}} It lies within the Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire Coalfield National Character Area as defined by Natural England.{{Cite web |url=http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/4743624?category=587130 |publisher=Natural England |title=NCA Profile: 38. Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire Coalfield (NE402) |date=31 January 2013 |access-date=11 April 2016}}

Heanor and Loscoe civil parish includes all Heanor town except Heanor Gate Spencer Academy 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. The college and surrounding streets and half the industrial estate are in Smalley civil parish, the other areas in Shipley civil parish.

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Heanor and Loscoe civil parish contains no conservation areas, but 30 per cent of the area lies in a green belt. The one nature reserve and four wildlife sites are all of local significance.{{Cite web |url=http://info.ambervalley.gov.uk/docarc/docviewer.aspx?docguid=a545d211c48742aab3f5d15cb57552a2 |title=Area Profile: Heanor |publisher=Amber Valley Borough Council |access-date=14 April 2016}}

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 textiles 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, Aldi,{{Cite web |url=https://www.aldi.co.uk/store/s-uk-E0438 |title=ALDI – High Street |publisher=Aldi Stores Limited |access-date=17 April 2016}} and Boyes.{{Cite news |url=https://www.ripleyandheanornews.co.uk/news/new-high-street-store-set-to-bring-25-jobs-to-heanor-town-centre-1-6973565 |title=New high street store set to bring 25 jobs to Heanor Town Centre |date=26 November 2014 |publisher=Ripley and Heanor News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191028182936/https://www.ripleyandheanornews.co.uk/news/new-high-street-store-set-to-bring-25-jobs-to-heanor-town-centre-1-6973565 |access-date=19 January 2021|archive-date=28 October 2019}} A small outdoor market is held on Fridays and Saturdays.{{Cite web |url=http://www.visitambervalley.com/shopping-and-towns/towns/heanor.aspx |title=Heanor – Up and Coming Market Town – Love Heanor |publisher=Amber Valley Borough Council |work=visitambervalley.com |date=2012 |access-date=12 April 2016}}

Heanor merges into Langley Mill.

In the 2011 census Heanor and Loscoe civil parish had 7,512 dwellings,{{Cite web |url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=11124405&c=Heanor&d=16&e=62&g=6412744&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1459970217797&enc=1&dsFamilyId=2481 |title=Area: Heanor and Loscoe (Parish). Dwellings, Household Spaces and Accommodation Type, 2011 (KS401EW) |work=Neighbourhood Statistics |publisher=Office for National Statistics |access-date=6 April 2016}} 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).{{Cite web |url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=11124405&c=Heanor&d=16&e=62&g=6412744&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=1&s=1459970809125&enc=1&dsFamilyId=2474 |title=Area: Heanor and Loscoe (Parish). Age Structure, 2011 (KS102EW) |work=Neighbourhood Statistics |publisher=Office for National Statistics |access-date=6 April 2016}} 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).{{Cite web |url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=11124405&c=Heanor&d=16&e=62&g=6412744&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=1&s=1460616519516&enc=1&dsFamilyId=2477 |title=Area: Heanor and Loscoe (Parish). Ethnic Group, 2011 (KS201EW) |work=Neighbourhood Statistics |publisher=Office for National Statistics |date=30 January 2013 |access-date=14 April 2016}} 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).{{Cite web |url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=11124405&c=Heanor&d=16&e=62&g=6412744&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=1&s=1460901538867&enc=1&dsFamilyId=2479 |title=Area: Heanor and Loscoe (Parish). Religion, 2011 (KS209EW) |work=Neighbourhood Statistics |publisher=Office for National Statistics |date=30 January 2013 |access-date=17 April 2016}}

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 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.[http://www.heanorhistory.org.uk/followthemaster.htm Follow the Master] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141024224906/http://www.heanorhistory.org.uk/followthemaster.htm |date=24 October 2014 }}. Heanorhistory.org.uk. Retrieved on 5 May 2013.

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Shipley Country Park, a steep wooded knoll 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, 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. Its youth team is called Heanor Juniors. Famous ex-players include Nigel Clough, who went on to play for Nottingham Forest, Liverpool and Manchester City and Nigel Pearson, who captained Sheffield Wednesday 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.{{cite web|url=https://heanortown.play-cricket.com/Aboutus|title=Heanor Town CC History|website=heanortown.play-cricket.com |publisher=Heanor Town Cricket Club|accessdate=2022-09-14}} Heanor Town CC fields one senior XI team in the Derbyshire County Cricket League.{{Cite web|url=https://derbyscountylge.play-cricket.com/home |title=Derbyshire County Cricket League |website=derbyscountylge.play-cricket.com |publisher=DCCL |date= |accessdate=2022-09-14}}

Heanor Clarion Cycling Club was founded in 1934. The club meet on a Wednesday evening most weeks at Aldercar Community Language College.{{Cite web|url=http://www.heanorclarion.org.uk |title=Heanor Clarion Cycling Club |website=heanorclarion.org.uk |publisher=Heanor Clarion Cycling Club |date= |accessdate=2022-09-14}}

Langley Mill rail station, {{Convert|1|mi|spell=in}} east of Heanor town centre, has services to Nottingham, Sheffield and beyond. Earlier the Midland Railway had a line between Shipley Gate and Butterley 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, Derby, Mansfield and other towns and cities in the area. The main operator is Trent Barton with one route run by Notts + Derby. Yourbus formerly ran services.

The nearest international airport is East Midlands Airport (18 miles, 29 km).

Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC East Midlands and ITV Central. Television signals are received from the Waltham TV transmitter.{{cite web|url=https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Waltham|title= Full Freeview on the Waltham (Leicestershire, England) transmitter|date=1 May 2004|website=UK Free TV|accessdate=4 October 2023}}

Local radio stations are BBC Radio Derby, Smooth East Midlands, Capital Midlands, Hits Radio East Midlands, Greatest Hits Radio Midlands and Amber Sound FM, a community based radio station.{{Cite web |url=http://www.ambersoundfm.com/|title=Amber Sound FM |access-date=4 October 2023}}

The district newspaper was the Ripley and Heanor News, it appeared on Thursdays but was amalgamated into the Derbyshire Times in 2021.[https://www.ripleyandheanornews.co.uk/ Retrieved 7 April 2020.]{{Cite web |last=Sharman |first=David |title=JPIMedia shuts three local news websites in Derbyshire - Journalism News from HoldtheFrontPage |url=https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2021/news/publisher-shuts-websites-serving-towns-that-lost-historic-newspapers/ |access-date=2023-04-02 |website=HoldtheFrontPage |language=en-GB}}

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• Billy Bestwick (1875–1938), cricketer, was born in Heanor.
• George William Bissill (1896–1973), painter, grew up in Langley Mill and attended school in Heanor.{{Cite web |url=http://www.derbyshirelife.co.uk/out-about/events/george_bissill_derbyshire_s_forgotten_pitman_painter_1_4274770 |title=George Bissill – Derbyshire's forgotten 'Pitman Painter' |publisher=Archant Community Media Ltd |work=Derbyshire Life Magazine |first=Peter |last=Seddon |date=20 October 2015 |access-date=17 April 2016}}
• Sir Thomas Bloodworth (1620-1682), merchant and politician, Lord Mayor of London during Great Fire of London, was born at Heanor.[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/bludworth-thomas-1620-82 History of Parliament Online – Bludworth, Thomas]
• Sir Richard William Barnes Clarke (1910–1975), journalist and civil servant, was born in Heanor.{{Cite ODNB |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30938 |title=Clarke, Sir Richard William Barnes (1910–1975) |first=Samuel |last=Goldman |date=September 2004 |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/30938 |access-date=4 June 2010}}
• Henry Garnet (1555–1606), Jesuit, born in Heanor, was executed for involvement in the Gunpowder Plot.{{Cite book |title=Derbyshire |first=Arthur |last=Mee |publisher=Hodder and Stoughton |series=The King's England |page=131 |year=1969}}
• William Gregg (1890–1969), born and died in Heanor, was awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery in 1918.[http://www.victoriacross.org.uk/coderbys.htm GRAVE LOCATION FOR HOLDERS OF THE VICTORIA CROSS IN THE COUNTY OF : DERBYSHIRE]
• The Howitt brothers: William Howitt (1792–1879), author,[http://www.nndb.com/people/375/000103066/ William Howitt]. The Notable Names Database (NNDB). Richard, poet (1799–1869) and Godfrey, entomologist, (1800–1873) were born in Heanor.
• Mary Howitt (1799–1888), author, lived in Heanor.
• Douglas Keen (27 October 1913 – 6 November 2008), designer of Ladybird Books, lived in Heanor and created the first title in the kitchen of his house there.Connolly, Cressida (29 November 2008) [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/nov/29/3 Obituary: Douglas Keen], The Guardian.Hawley, Zena (14 January 2013) [http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/Douglas-s-little-Ladybird-books-big-impact/story-17852829-detail/story.html#axzz2SO2SY0u3 How Douglas's little Ladybird books had a big impact on our education] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117234205/http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/Douglas-s-little-Ladybird-books-big-impact/story-17852829-detail/story.html#axzz2SO2SY0u3 |date=17 January 2013 }}. This is Derbyshire. Retrieved on 5 May 2013.
• Samuel Roper (died 1658), antiquary, was born in Heanor.[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50709 British History academic site] accessed 7 October 2007
• Edward Smith (1819–1874), physician, medical writer and dietician, was born in Heanor.{{Cite ODNB |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25794 |title=Smith, Edward (1819–1874) |first=Kenneth J |last=Carpenter |date=September 2004 |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/25794 |access-date=4 June 2010}}
• John Varley (1740–1809), canal engineer, supervised construction of the Chesterfield Canal, was born in Heanor.
• Samuel Watson ({{circa|1662}}–1715), sculptor, was born in Heanor.{{Cite ODNB |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28864 |title=Watson, Samuel (bap. 1662, d. 1715) |first=Trevor |last=Brighton |date=September 2004 |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/28864 |access-date=4 June 2010}}

{{main|Listed buildings in Heanor and Loscoe}}

There are ten structures in Heanor and Loscoe civil parish listed by Historic 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 include Heanor Town Hall, are listed as Grade II.{{Cite web |url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/england/derbyshire/heanor+and+loscoe#.VwJaGfkrLIU |title=Listed Buildings in Heanor and Loscoe, Derbyshire, England |publisher=britishlistedbuildings.co.uk |access-date=4 April 2016}} St Lawrence's has 15th-century origins, but was altered in 1866–1868 and about 1980.{{Cite web |url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-79069-church-of-st-lawrence-heanor-and-loscoe-d#.VwpWmvkrLIU |title=Church of St Lawrence, Heanor and Loscoe |publisher= britishlistedbuildings.co.uk |access-date=10 April 2016}}

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• [http://heanorhistory.org.uk/index.html Heanor and District Local History Society]
• [http://www.Ripleytoday.co.uk Ripley and Heanor News]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20091108082509/http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/heanor Heanor news from the Derby Telegraph]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20111003174938/http://www.langleymillheritage.org.uk/ Langley Mill heritage Group]
• [https://heanorlocal.co.uk/listings/ Heanor Local Business Directory]

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