Norton Malreward, Somerset

Historical Description

Norton Malreward, a parish in Somerset, 1 mile from Pensford station on the G.W.R., and 5 miles S of Bristol. Post town, Pensford, under Bristol. Acreage, 1073; population, 114. Maes Knoll, on the E extremity of Dundry Hill, and on the line of Wans Dyke, is an ancient British camp, and a well-known landmark. Macs Knoll Tump, rising above the level of the interior of the camp, is a tumulus 390 feet long, 84 wide, and about 45 high. An ancient equestrian gold ring was exhumed, in accompaniment with bones, in a quarry on the manor farm. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £240 with residence. The charch was rebuilt in 1861, is in the Norman and Decorated English styles, and retains the tower and a Norman arch of the previous church.

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

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Somerset Archives & Local Studies, have images of the Parish Registers for Somerset online.

Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

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

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

Maps

Online maps of Norton Malreward 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 Somerset papers online:

• Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette
• Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser
• Western Gazette
• Wells Journal
• Somerset County Gazette

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Somersetshire, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.