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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
NORTON, a village and a township in Runcorn parish, Cheshire. The village stands near the Grand Junction and the Mersey and Irwell canals, and near the junction of the Crewe and Warrington and the Chester and Manchester railways, 1½ mile S of the river Mersey, and 3½ N E of Frodsham; and has a railway station. The township extends to the Mersey; and comprises 2, 179 acres of land, and 290 of water. Real property, £4, 501. Pop., 380. Houses, 48. The property belongs to Sir Richard Brooke, Bart. An Augustinian canonry, founded at Runcorn in 1133 by William Fitz-Nigell, was removed to Norton by his son; had land endowments in the counties of Nottingham, Leicester, and Oxford; and received large benefactions from Edward the Black Prince. Norton Priory, the seat of Sir R. Brooke, Bart., occupies the site of the canonry; is an old quadrangular edifice; was besieged in 1643; and stands in a park of about 115 acres.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a township" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Norton CP/Tn Runcorn CP/AP Cheshire AncC |
| Place: | Norton |
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