![]() ![]() All the settlement and buildings at this point were clustered around the main road along the roadsides of what is now Church Street and Market Street (a linear settlement). There were very few buildings in the area and only a small track road leading to the settlement.Īround 1888 the only houses that were there were a few cottages around the church of St Michael, on the hilltop in South Normanton Centre and the Windmill. Carnfield Hall was for several centuries the seat of the Revel family.īefore 1888 South Normanton was a small hamlet concerned with farming activities. South Normanton Colliery closed in 1952, B Winning in 1964 and A Winning in 1969. Normanton means 'the farm of the north men' or 'Northwegans'. The historic industries of the village were agriculture, stocking, spinning and mining. An ex-mining village, it is two miles east of Alfreton. The population at the 2011 Census was 9,445. ![]() South Normanton is a village and civil parish in the Bolsover District of Derbyshire, England. ![]()
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