Norwell, Nottinghamshire

Description
Norwell, a township and a parish in Notts. The township lies on an affluent of the river Trent, 2 miles SW of Carlton railway station, and 3 N by W of Newark, and has a post office under Newark; money order office, Caunton ; telegraph office, Carlton-on-Trent (R.S.) Acreage of township, 2569; population, 441; of the ecclesiastical parish, 534. The parish contains also the township of Norwell Woodhouse and. the ecclesiastical parish of Carlton-upon-Trent. The chief landowners are the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £220 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Manchester. The church is in the Early English style, comprises nave, aisles, transepts, S transept chapel, and chancel restored in 1858, with a tower, and contains a stone effigies of a knight and several mural tablets. There is a Wesleyan chapel.