Extracts from  
Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire 1932

Codnor is a Civil Parish. By an order of the County Council and by local government board Order No. 39,199, which came into operation 1st April, 1899. This parish was include in the Urban District of Heanor. Codnor has a station at Crosshill, on the Heanor & Ripley branch of the London, Midland and Scottish railway, 5 miles South-east from Alfreton, 6 North-east from Belper, 2 West from Heanor, 2 East fom Ripley, 9 from Derby and 11 from Nottingham, in the Ilkeston division of the county,hundred of Morleston & Litchurch, petty sessional division of Ilkeston, county court district of Alfreton, rural deanery of Heanor, archdeaconry of Chesterfield and diocese of Derby. Water is supplied by the Ilkeston & Heanor Water Co. and gas by the Langley mill and Heanor Gas Light and Coke Co. Limited. The ecclesiastical parish was formed 1st Oct 1844, from the parishes of Denby, Heanor and Pentrich. The church of St. James, erected in 1844, at a cost of £2000, and situated near the railway station, about midway between the two villages, is a plain building of stone, in the gothic style, consisting of chancel and nave, and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing one bell: a stained east window was erected in 1898 in memory of Dr. George Woolley, his wife and daughter: in 1890 the chancel was entirely rebuilt, a vestry erected and the church redecorated and reseated at a cost of £1800, under the direction of J. Holden Esq. F.R.I.B.A. : there are 517 sittings. The register dates from the year 1844. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £400, with residence in the gift of the Crown and held since 1930 by the Rev. Harold William Pinchbeck BA of Keble College, Oxford. There are Wesleyan, United Methodist and Primitive Methodist chapels and a church reading room. The cemetary comprises about an acre, and adjoins the churchyard. There is a Lych-gate at the entrance to the cemetery, erected at a cost of £600, in memory of the men from this parish who gave their lives in the Great War, 1914-1918. The principal land owners are the Butterley Company Limited, the trustees of the late Ven. Archdeacon Woolley D.D. (died 1892) and James John  Arthur Woolley esq. J.P. the soil is clayey; subsoil, clayey.The land is principally pasture. The area is 1,917 acres of land and 14 of water: The population in 1921 was 4,994.

Codnor Gate hamlet is half a mile north.
Crosshill and Woodlinken are places in the parish.
Post, M.O., T. & T.E.D. office. Letters through Derby.

Conveyance
Omnibuses run to Heanor & Alfreton
Tramway cars, to & from Nottingham & Ripley, run through the parish
Railway station - Crosshill & Codnor LMS Railway Co.(Ripley station), collect and deliver here.