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NORTON (NORTYN)

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

Bibliography

Cole, E J           Court Rolls of Presteigne and Norton           Radnorshire Society Transactions Vol 22  1952      Welsh Journals Online

Howse, W H        Court Rolls of the Manor of Norton            Radnorshire Society Transactions     vol. 14  1944   Welsh Journals Online

Newman, C W               Two churchyard gravestone surveys in Radnorshire             Radnorshire Society Transactions Vol 52  1982      Welsh Journals Online

Sylvester, Dorothy      Glasbury, Norton, and the problem of the nucleated village in Radnorshire       Radnorshire Society Transactions Vol 37  1967      Welsh Journals Online  

Church History

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

Church and chapel data from The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 1, South Wales. Ed. by   I.G   Jones, & D. Williams. UWP,  Cardiff, 1976. The names given towards the end of each entry are those of the informants.

Norton Parish (Diocese of Hereford) ; Statistics; Area 3144 acres; Population 159 males, 135 females, total 294

• Norton Parish Church     Attendance - (average) morning 120/150 + 30/40 scholars      John Jenkins, Minister
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• Preaching Room, Primitive Methodist    Not used exclusively as a place of worship         Erected 1849       Attendance morning 15, afternoon 11, evening 12        Joseph Hutchings, Minister, Broad St, Presteyne

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 People's Collection Wales 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

Kain, R.J.P., Oliver, R.R., Historic Parishes of England and Wales: an Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata [computer file]. Colchester, Essex: History Data Service, UK Data Archive [distributor], 17 May 2001. SN: 4348.   Here is a gazetteer/finding aid plus a set of overview maps to accurately identify the position of parishes within the county

View maps covering the area of this parish and places within its boundaries

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