East Norton, Leicestershire

Description
East Norton. See NORTON. Eastoft, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1855 out of the parishes of Adingfleet in Yorkshire and Crowie in Lincolnshire. It is situated on the river Don, 4- miles from Crowie station on the M.S. & L.R., and 9 S.E. of Goole. It has a post office under Goole; money order office, Luddington; telegraph office, Crowie. Acreage of township in Yorkshire, 1328; population, 101; acreage in Lincolnshire, 1313 ; population, 454. Earl Manvers is lord of the manor, and one of the principal landowners. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York; gross value, £150 with residence. The church of St Bartholomew, erected in 1855, is in the Early English style. Eastoft Hall (Lincolnshire) and Eastoft Hall (W. R. Yorkshire) are chief residences. East Ogwell. See OGWELL.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5