Norton Disney, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Norton Disney, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, on the river Witham, 2 miles ESE of The Fosse Way and the boundary with Notts, 3¾ SSE of the Collingham and Swin-derby stations on the Nottingham and Lincoln section of M.R , and 7 NE of Newark. Post town, Newark; money order and telegraph office, Bassingham. Acreage, 2341; population, 181. The manor, with Norton Disney Hall, belongs to Viscount St Vincent. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £107. Patron, Viscount St Vincent. The church is a plain building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of a double chancel, nave, N aisle, S transept, and an embattled western tower; belonged formerly to Sempringham Priory; and contains several ancient monuments and brasses of the Disneys.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Norton Disney 1578-1812, Lincolnshire is available to browse online.

Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Norton Disney:

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Norton Disney from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Norton-Disney (All Saints))

Maps

Online maps of Norton Disney are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online:

• Grantham Journal
• Grimsby Daily Telegraph
• Lincolnshire Chronicle
• Lincolnshire Echo
• Lincolnshire Free Press
• Louth and North Lincolnshire Advertiser
• Stamford Mercury