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Norton, Yorkshire, England. Geographical and Historical information from 1835.

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NORTON:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1835.

"NORTON, a parish in the wapentake of BUCKROSE, East riding of the county of YORK, comprising the townships of Norton, Sutton, andWelham, and containing 1168 inhabitants, of which number, 1017 are in the township of Norton, half of a mile E.S.E. from New Malton. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of the East riding, and diocese of York, endowed with £200 private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £1100 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of - Ewbank, Esq. Norton is separated from Malton by the river Derwent, which is here crossed by a stone bridge, at the foot of which there was formerly an hospital, founded early in the reign of Henry II., by Roger de Flamville, and made subordinate to the priory of Malton. From the great number of Roman coins discovered, this is supposed to have been anciently a place of more consequence than it is now."


"SUTTON, a township in the parish of NORTON, wapentake of BUCKROSE, East riding of the county of YORK, 1 mile S.E. from New Malton, containing 87 inhabitants."


"WELHAM, a township in the parish of NORTON, wapentake of BUCKROSE, East riding of the county of YORK, 1 mile S. from New Malton, containing 64 inhabitants."

[Transcribed by Mel Lockie © from
Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1835]