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| | Heanor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | Heanor is a market-town or village in the hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, on the road from Derby to Mansfield (Notts.), about nine miles from Derby. |
 | | The parish is extensive, containing 6,870 acres (or nearly 11 square miles), and a population (in 1831) of 5,380 inhabitants, thus distributed:- Heanor township, 2,672; Codnor and Loscow township, 1,439 ; Shipley township, 632 ; and Codnor Castle and Park Liberty (extra-parochial), 637. |
 | | Heanor is well situated for trade, the Erewash canal passing through the parish, and the neighbouring district having many coal-pits. |
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