NORTON, Derbyshire
Census
- The parish was in the Norton sub-district of the Eclesall Berlow Registration District.
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Church History
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint James.
- The church was completely restored in 1882.
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Church Records
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1559.
- Marriages at Norton, 1559-1812 are available in Nigel Batty-Smith's database of
scanned images of
Phillimore's Parish Registers.
- The church was in the rural deanery of Dronfield.
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Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Norton sub-district of the Eclesall Berlow Registration District.
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Description and Travel
"NORTON is an agricultural parish, containing a village of the same name, about two miles and a half from Dronfield and four from Sheffield. About one mile south-east is Hazelhurst and Oaks, the seats of William John Bagshaw, Esq. magistrate. The church, among which is an altar tomb, to the memory of the parents of John Blythe, Bishop of Salisbury, and Geffrey Blythe, Bishop of Lichfield, both of whom were born here: a place of worship for unitarians, and a grammar school, of ancient foundation are in the parish - which contained, in 1831, 1,747 inhabitants."
[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]
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Directories
- Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Norton entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).
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Gazetteers
- The transcription of the section for Norton from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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Politics and Government
- This parish was in the ancient Scarsdale Hundred (or Wapentake).