Description
Normanton, a parish in Rutland, on the river Gwash, 1 1/2 miles WNW of Ketton station on the M.R. and L.& N.W.R., and 5 ESE of Oakham. Post town, Stamford; money order and telegraph office, North Luffenham. Acreage, 720; population, 81. The manor belonged to the Normanvilles, passed to the Basings and the Mackworths, and belongs now, with all the land, to the Earl of Ancaster. Normanton Park is the seat of the Earl of Ancaster, and the mansion is a beautiful edifice of white Ketton stone on an eminence, surrounded by a fine well-wooded deer park of about 400 acres. There is a mineral spring. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; gross value, £109 with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Ancaster. The church stands in the park, is a small, old, rustic building of stone in the Perpendicular style, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, and a western tower.
We have transcribed the Rutland pages from Kelly's Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland, 1929, and you can view the entry for Normanton which contains further infomation and lists of residents etc.
