Description
Temple Normanton, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Chesterfield parish, Derbyshire, near the M.R., 2 1/2 miles SE of Chesterfield railway station. There is also a station on the M.S. & L.R., about 1 mile from the village. The post office is under Chesterfield; money order and telegraph office, Heath. Acreage, 520; population, 210. The manor belongs to the Arkwright family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £55. The present church, Early English in style, was built in 1882 on the site of an old chapel. There is an endowed school.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
