Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CODNOR-PARK

CODNOR-PARK, an extra-parochial tract in the district of Basford, and county of Derby; on the Erewash river, canal, and railway, 10 miles SW of Mansfield. It has a station on the railway. Acres, 1, 320. Real property, £2, 161. Pop., 795. Houses, 141. A castle here, now a ruin, belonged for ages to the Greys of Codnor; and passed to the Zouches and others. There are coal-mines and iron-works.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "an extra-parochial tract"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Derbyshire AncC
Place: Codnor Park

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