HEANOR, a parish in the hundred of MORLESTON-and-LITCHURCH, county of DERBY, comprising the town of Heanor (formerly a market-town), and the townships of Codnor with Loscow, and Shipley, and containing, with the liberty of Codnor castle and park, which is extra- parochial, 4981 inhabitants, of which number, 2364 are in the town of Heanor, 9 miles (N. E.) from Derby. This town is pleasantly situated on an eminence on the road from London to Matlock, and in the neighbourhood are several collieries and some extensive ironworks, affording employment to a considerable portion of the inhabitants. A navigable part of the Erewash river, being a continuation of the Erewash canal, passes along the eastern boundary of this parish. It is crossed by Langley bridge, on the Derby and Mansfield road, near which a railway branches off and extends to the coal pits south of the town. The principal branches of manufacture are cotton goods, hosiery, and bobbin net-lace, in the making of which last several females are employed. The market, formerly on Wednesday, has been discontinued; an attempt was made to revive it some few years since, but without effect. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £9. 10., endowed with £200 private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £1800 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. There are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyan Methodists. Among the charitable bequests is one of £ 5 per annum for the instruction of poor children; and this parish has the privilege of sending eight boys to the school at Smalley, in the parish of Morley, founded by John and Samuel Richardson, Esqrs. The ruins of the ancient castle of Codhor, founded by Richard de Grey in the reign of Henry III., may here be traced over a consider able extent of-ground, and some of the walls are still standing.