Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Norton. You may be able to find further references to Norton in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Norton parish Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Norton.

Place Type of entry Source
Muscott hamlet Bartholomew
MUSCOTT a hamlet Imperial
Thrupp hamlet Bartholomew
THRUPP a hamlet Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Norton within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller Section No. of Refs.
Thomas Pennant Part II: Daventry to Northampton 2

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Whilton 0 2
Burnt Walls 0 1
Dodford 2 2
Brockhall 0 2
Welton 0 2
Daventry 25 2
Newnham 0 2
Drayton 0 2
Long Buckby 0 3
Flore 6 2
Weedon Bec 11 2
Brington 0 2
Ashby St Ledgers 1 2
Watford 1 2
Everdon 0 1
Badby 3 2
Braunston 4 2
Nobottle 0 2
Staverton 0 2
Nether Heyford 0 3