Norton, Hertfordshire

Description
Norton, a parish, with a village, in Herts, on the river Ivel, adjacent to Beds, 1 mile WNW of Baldock station on the Hitchin and Cambridge branch of the G.N.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Baldock. Acreage, 1751; population of the civil parish, 195; of the ecclesiastical, 282. The manor belongs to the Pym family. Norton Hall and Nortonbury are now occupied as farmhouses. Wilbury Hill is on the boundary, 1 1/4 mile SW of the village, is traversed by Icknield Street, and has remains of a Roman camp, covering an area of about 7 acres, where Roman coins have been found. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; value, £26 with 58 1/2 acres of glebe and residence. The church is an ancient building of flint in the Early English style, and consists of nave and chancel, with porch and tower.