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"NORTON, a parish in the hundred of Fawsley, county Northampton, 2 miles N.E. of Daventry, its post town, and 3 from Weedon. It is a small agricultural village situated near the North-Western railway and the Grand Junction canal. The parish includes the hamlets of Murcott and, Thrupp, and is intersected by the Roman way Watling Street. The substratum is gravel, which is worked in several places for repairing the roads in the vicinity. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough, value £270. The church, dedicated to All Saints, is an ancient structure with an embattled tower containing five bells. The interior of the church contains a monument to Lady Seymour, bearing date 1602, and others to the Botfield family. The parochial charities produce about £51 per annum, realised from church estates. There is a school for children of both sexes, also a Sunday-school. The Wesleyans have a place of worship. The late Beriah Botfield, Esq., was lord of the manor and chief landowner." [Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2010]
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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"NORTON, a parish in the hundred of Fawsley, county Northampton, 2 miles N.E. of Daventry, its post town, and 3 from Weedon. It is a small agricultural village situated near the North-Western railway and the Grand Junction canal. The parish includes the hamlets of Murcott and, Thrupp, and is intersected by the Roman way Watling Street. The substratum is gravel, which is worked in several places for repairing the roads in the vicinity. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough, value £270. The church, dedicated to All Saints, is an ancient structure with an embattled tower containing five bells. The interior of the church contains a monument to Lady Seymour, bearing date 1602, and others to the Botfield family. The parochial charities produce about £51 per annum, realised from church estates. There is a school for children of both sexes, also a Sunday-school. The Wesleyans have a place of worship. The late Beriah Botfield, Esq., was lord of the manor and chief landowner."
"MUSCOTT, a hamlet in the parish of Norton, county Northampton, 3½ miles E. of Daventry. It is situated on the North-Western railway."
"THRUPP, a hamlet in the parish of Norton, county Northampton, 2 miles N.E. of Daventry."
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