Norton, Suffolk

Historical Description

Norton, a village and a parish in Suffolk. The village stands 3 miles NE of Thurston station, and 3 NW of Elmswell station on the Bury and Ipswich section of the G.E.R., and 8 E by N of Bury St Edmunds, and has a post and money order office under Bury St Edmunds; telegraph office, Stowlangtoft. The parish comprises 2460 acres; population, 762. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. Little Haugh, the seat of the Huddlestons, is a pleasant country mansion standing in a well-timbered park, which is crossed by a stream flowing northwards. A search for gold was made in the time of Henry VIII. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net value, £370 with residence. Patron, St Peter's College, Cambridge. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Perpendicular Gothic style. There are a Baptist chapel, a small town estate, and some useful charities.

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.

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. Andrew))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk 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 Suffolk papers online:

• The Ipswich Journal
• East Suffolk Mercury and Lowestoft Weekly News
• Bury and Norwich Post
• Bury Free Press