Normanton, Lincolnshire

Description
Normanton, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, 2 1/2 miles W of Ermine Street, 2 1/2 NNE of Honington station on the Grantham and Lincoln branch of the G.N.R., 5 NE of Hougham station on the main line, and 7 NNE of Grantham. There is a post office under Grantham; money order and telegraph office, Caythorpe. Acreage, 1509; population of the civil parish, 143; of the ecclesiastical, with Carlton Scroop, 374. The manor and most of the land belong to Earl Brownlow. The living is a rectory, consolidated with that of Carlton Scroop, in the diocese of Lincoln; joint net value, £305 with residence. The church, which consists of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and a western tower, is an edifice of stone in the Late Transitional, Early English, Decorated, and Perpendicular styles.