HENOVERE AND THE CHURCH OF HEANOR. 25 



by the Abbot to the FitzWalchelins was called Henovera or 

 Henovere. That Heno\'ere was in Mickleover agrees well with 

 the fact that all the Derbyshire possessions of the Abbey were 

 in Derby and to the S. and S.W. of that town, while 

 Heanor is some nine miles to the N.E. And, further, that 

 Henovere is always mentioned in close connection with Mickle- 

 over (Oufra), Littleover, Potlac, and Findern. 



Taking the widest dates of the Henovere entries, two 

 members of the FitzWalchelin family held land there under 

 the Abbey between 1150 and 1179. Further, Nicholas Fitz- 

 Walchelin de Henovere, a tenant under the Abbey,^ held land 

 in Mickleover called Crosforlong, towards Littleover, between 

 1222 and 1233. And in 1225-6 Nicholas de Enovere, or 

 Eynoure (obviously the same), had right of pasture in Mickle- 

 over in the neighbourhood of Rughedich, Sortegrave, and 

 Witesiche. " The Abbot concedes to Roger (le Breton) and 

 his heirs and to his men of Rughedich common of pasture in 

 the whole manor of Magna Ufre, and in the manor of Parva 

 Ufre after the deaths of Philip Marcus and his wife Anne, for 

 which concession Roger (so far as lies in him) concedes to the 

 Abbot, etc., permission to assart 60 acres in Sortegrave, and 

 Nicholas de Enovere and his heirs shall have free entry and exit 

 to the same pasture near Witesiche" (p. 126).^ 



Land in Heanor was indeed held by a Nicholas de Henover 

 (possibly the Nicholas mentioned in the " Testa de Nevil " as 

 holding in Shipley, 1242), but this was at a later date — that is 

 to say, he acquired a moiety of the manors of Heanor, Langley, 

 and Milnhay in 1258. But the FitzWalchelin references appear 

 to refer only to Henovere and the neighbourhood of Mickleover. 



Part of the land at Mickleover, Littleover, Findern, and 

 Potlac, formerly possessions' of the Abbey, came into the 

 possession of Mr. Pole, of Radburn, in 1801, as given in 

 Lyson's Derbyshire, p. 226, where the following expressive 

 sentence occurs : — " Mr. Pole has a manor or farm in this 

 (Mickleover) parish also, called Rough-Heanor." And in a 



1 Vol. vii., p. 121. 



2 See also vol. viii., pp. 23 and 24. 



