Monument record 893 - Norton

Post medieval settlement remains present to the south-west of the church

{1} The village is first mentioned in 1086 when Domesday Book lists a recorded population of 34. There is no indication of its size during the rest of the medieval period as it is included in most of the national taxation records with Thrupp. In 1673 52 people paid the hearth Tax and by 1801, 362 people lived in the parish, but this figure included a large number of inhabitants of outlying farms.
Up to the mid 19th century the village appears to have had a different layout to the present one. The surviving earthworks suggest that part of the village once lay east of the vicarage but had been abandoned before the 19th century.

A road, perhaps once the main road, running south from the present green west of the church. It followed the line of the present lane to the vicarage and then swung south west to join the existing road at the south end of the village. On the west side of the road stood at least seven buildings, all probably houses. Soon after 1847 the park at Norton Hall was extended westward and the houses were demolished.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1981, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.156 site 12 (checked) (Series). SNN77381.

<2> Egan G., 2006, Report of the Portable Antiquities Scheme 2005, (unchecked) (Report). SNN106010.

<3> WATCHING BRIEF AT NORTON, (unchecked) (Report). SNN54896.

<4> Ryland, W, Adkins, D, and Serjeantson, R M, 1902, The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Northamptonshire, p.329 (unchecked) (Series). SNN100368.

<5> PRO series E179, PRO E179/254/14 (Document). SNN115882.

<6> 1847, Norton Tithe Map (NRO T297), (unchecked) (Map). SNN14134.

<7> Brindle, T., 2008, Northamptonshire (Draft) (Chapter). SNN106263.

<8> Billington V., 2000, Woad-Growing in Northamptonshire, p.59-70 (unchecked) (Article). SNN102516.

<9> RCHME, Undated, RCHME Inventory: Northamptonshire II (Central), 889826/890730 (Archive). SNN112900.

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Feb 3 2025 8:50PM