Stoneyford, Derbyshire

Stoneyford,
Derbyshire
The road to Stoneyford Lodge
Location
Grid reference:	SK442494
Location:	53°2’26"N, 1°20’30"W
Data
Postcode:	NG16
Local Government
Council:	Amber Valley

Stoneyford is a tiny hamlet in Derbyshire, in the east of the county at the end of a minor dead-end lane. It is just 500 yards from to the upper course of the River Erewash, which here forms the border with Nottinghamshire.

This was once a small industrial village but it has fallen into decline: an Ordnance Survey Map of 1881 shows a 'Stoneyford Colliery', which has since disappeared. The Cromford Canal, which now stops short between here and Ironville, used to run through to Stoneyford, and a canalside cottage remains as a memory. At the time of the 1891 Census, Stoneyford had 33 households, mainly inhabited by coal miners and their families, but few houses now remain.

There was also once a church, Holy Trinity, which was closed at some time before 1970 and has since been demolished.

The nearest villages of any size are Codnor a mile and a half to the west, Ironville a mile and a half northwards, and Heanor about the same distance to the south. The north-south railway line along the Erewash valley slices past Stoneyford.

The hamlet's lane continues eastwards over the railway line, crossing the river into Nottinghamshire, now on a footbridge rather then through a ford.

References

Canal cottage, Stoneyford