Normanton, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Normanton, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, 2½ miles W of Ermine Street, 2½ NNE of Honington station on the Grantham and Lincoln branch of the G.N.R., 5 NE of Hougham station on the main line, and 7 NNE of Grantham. There is a post office under Grantham; money order and telegraph office, Caythorpe. Acreage, 1509; population of the civil parish, 143; of the ecclesiastical, with Carlton Scroop, 374. The manor and most of the land belong to Earl Brownlow. The living is a rectory, consolidated with that of Carlton Scroop, in the diocese of Lincoln; joint net value, £305 with residence. The church, which consists of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and a western tower, is an edifice of stone in the Late Transitional, Early English, Decorated, and Perpendicular styles.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Normanton St. Nicholas | |
Poor Law union | Grantham | |
Wapentake | Loveden |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at North Scarle 1564-1812, Lincolnshire is available to browse online.
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Normanton:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1670-1911 | 1766-1766 | 1670-1908 | 1669-1812 |
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Normanton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Normanton (St. Nicholas))
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online: