Norton, Gloucestershire
Historical Description
Norton, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire. The village stands 1¼ mile ESE of the river Severn, and 4½ miles NNE of Gloucester. It was formerly called Nortune, and has a post office under Gloucester; money order office, Gloucester; telegraph office, Coombe Hill. The parish comprises 1971 acres; population, 354. Norton Court is the chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £245 with residence. Patrons, The Dean and Chapter of Bristol. The church consists of nave and chancel, with porch and tower, and was restored in 1876. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Gloucestershire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Norton St. Mary | |
Hundred | Dudstone and Kings Barton | |
Poor Law union | Gloucester |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The parish register dates from the year 1668.
The Gloucestershire Parish Registers are available online at Ancestry, in association with Gloucestershire Archives.
Churches
Church of England
St. Mary (parish church)
The church of St. Mary is an edifice of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, and an embattled western tower containing 6 bells: the church was thoroughly restored in 1875-6 at a cost of nearly £1,400, under the direction of Mr. Waller, architect, of Gloucester, and has 200 sittings.
Methodist
Wesleyan Chapel, Norton Green
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 Norton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Norton (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Gloucestershire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Norton 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 newspapers covering Gloucestershire online:
- Gloucester Citizen
- Gloucester Journal
- Gloucestershire Chronicle
- Gloucestershire Echo
- Cheltenham Chronicle
- Cheltenham Looker-On
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of the county of Gloucester, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.