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NORTON (NORTYN)

• Church History
• Church Records
• Description and Travel
• Gazetteers
• History
• Land and Property
• Maps

Church History

Church of St Andrew, Norton on the Radnorshire Churches Survey site

Church Records

Detailed information on deposited registers and transcripts for this parish is given on the Powys Archives page Radnorshire parish registers

As a guide only, the principal extant parochial church records for this parish span the dates shown below (as detailed in Parish Registers of Wales, NLW 2000) but exact current holdings should be confirmed with the individual Archives;

• Baptisms 1704-1922; Marriages 1704-1971; Burials 1704-1984; Banns 1824-1982
  Parish Registers, or copies, for all or part of these dates are held at the NLW and/or Powys Archives.  
  Bishops Transcripts for various periods are held at the Hereford Archives and /or Powys Archives

Description and Travel

A punishment tree in Norton Graveyard - on the Gathering the Jewels site

Presteigne and Norton Town Council

Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Norton (Nortyn) from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
• A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis, 1833

History

Norton Village War Memorial - on the Roll of Honour site

Land and Property

Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;

• Price family of Norton deeds  1674-1905    "Richard Green (b. 1803), son of George Green of Knighton, esq., and Margaret, youngest daughter of Richard Price of Knighton, esq., assumed the additional surname Price in 1874 in accordance with the will of his maternal uncle, Richard Price, lord of the manor of Norton, esq., and was created a baronet in the same year."

Maps

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