🏴 Architect/Illuminator/Ceramist/Decorative Designer William Harrison Cowlishaw is associated with Norton. Following World War One, he was commissioned by the War Graves Commission to to design memorials and cemeteries in France and Belgium.
Norton, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
History
🏴 Norton is a small village in Hertfordshire, England, one of the three original villages which were absorbed into Letchworth Garden City, the other two being Willian and Old Letchworth. The village is known to have existed by 1007, with remains of the medieval settlement visible as earthworks in a field beside the church. However, the history of the village goes back even further than that.
1History Archaeological excavations in Norton have revealed evidence of human activity in the area going back to before around 3000 BC. People lived at different sites in the village during the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age, with continuity into the Roman period. Anglo-Saxon occupation is evident from a small cemetery discovered at Blackhorse Road in 1957 and a settlement discovered at Kristiansand Way in 1989, thought to be the lost site of Rodenhanger. It was during this latter period that the first written evidence about Norton appeared. A charter relating to Norton dating from AD 1007 is the earliest document to survive, recording its donation to the Abbey of St Albans and claiming that it had originally been given by Offa, King of Mercia, in the eighth century, together with Rodenhanger, a lost site said to lie together with Norton. The manor appeared in the Domesday Book of 1086, when it was listed among the lands belonging to the Abbots of St Albans. The records of the manorial courts, which date from AD 1244, give an extensive overview of the life of Norton's villagers during the medieval period. Following the Dissolution of St Albans Abbey in 1539 the manor of Norton passed into private hands, but its manorial courts continued to record the activities of its villagers until 1916.
The village church, the Church of St Nicholas, dating back to the early twelfth century, is dedicated to St Nicholas, and has eight light bells hung for change ringing. Since the construction in the same parish of the much larger St George's church, in the town, St Nicholas' is in use as a chapel of ease.
1Europe/London/Hertfordshire
The North Hertfordshire District has a population of over 133,570 people. It is also a part of the larger Hertfordshire county.
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North of: 51.994
🏴 Buckingham 51.995
🏴 Saffron Walden 52.022
🇵🇱 Biała Podlaska 52.033
🇳🇱 Nieuwegein 52.033
South of: 51.994
🇳🇱 Lansingerland 51.983
🇳🇱 Krimpenerwaard 51.983
🏴 Tewkesbury 51.983
🏴 Letchworth Garden City 51.98
🏴 Letchworth 51.976
🇩🇪 Bodenwerder 51.967
🇳🇱 Doetinchem 51.967
East of: -0.213
West of: -0.213
🇪🇸 Villajoyosa -0.217
🏴 Cricklewood -0.218
🏴 Hammersmith -0.223
🏴 Letchworth Garden City -0.224
🏴 Letchworth -0.23
🏴 Shepherds Bush -0.231
🏴 Peterborough -0.237
Antipodal to Norton is: 179.787,-51.994
Locations Near: Norton -0.2127,51.9936
🏴 Letchworth Garden City -0.224,51.98 d: 1.7
🏴 Letchworth -0.23,51.976 d: 2.3
🏴 Stevenage -0.2,51.9 d: 10.4
🏴 Welwyn Garden City -0.193,51.806 d: 20.9
🏴 Hertford -0.147,51.781 d: 24.1
🏴 Luton -0.416,51.882 d: 18.7
🏴 Hatfield -0.217,51.75 d: 27.1
🏴 St Albans -0.336,51.755 d: 27.8
🏴 St. Albans -0.337,51.754 d: 28
Antipodal to: Norton 179.787,-51.994
🇳🇿 Christchurch 172.617,-43.517 d: 18932
🇳🇿 Dunedin 170.474,-45.884 d: 19055.1
🇳🇿 Canterbury 171.58,-43.543 d: 18894.5
🇳🇿 Masterton 175.664,-40.95 d: 18747.7
🇳🇿 Hutt 174.917,-41.217 d: 18761
🇳🇿 Lower Hutt 174.917,-41.217 d: 18761
🇳🇿 Wellington 174.767,-41.283 d: 18764.8
🇳🇿 Upper Hutt 175.05,-41.133 d: 18755
🇳🇿 Porirua 174.84,-41.131 d: 18750.2
🇳🇿 Palmerston North 175.61,-40.357 d: 18682.3
Flood Risk: Climate Central 51.9936 -0.2127
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