Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Norton

Norton.-- township and vil. with ry sta., Runcorn par., Cheshire, 4½ miles SE. of Warrington, 2235 ac., pop. 345; Norton Priory, seat, occupies the site of an ancient canonry.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township and village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Norton CP/Tn       Runcorn CP/AP       Cheshire AncC
Place: Norton

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