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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 (East), a village and a parochial chapelry in Billesdon district, Leicester. Th village stands in Eye brook valley, 2½ miles W of the boundary with Leicester, 5½ W of Uppingham, and 6 N of Medbourne-Bridge r. station; is a seat of petty sessions; and has a police station and an inn. The chapelry comprises 1, 390 acres. Post-town, Tugby, under Leicester. Real property, £2, 230. Pop., 139. Houses, 26. The manor belongs to T. Chamberlayne, Esq. The living is a p.curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Tugby, in the diocese of Peterborough. The church is early English; was restored and enlarged in 1850; and has a small tower, with short octagonal spire. There are a Wesleyan chapel and charities £17.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parochial chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Leicestershire AncC |
| Place names: | EAST NORTON | NORTON | NORTON EAST |
| Place: | East Norton |
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