Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NORTON-PLACE

NORTON-PLACE, a seat in Bishop-Norton parish, Lincoln; adjacent to Ermine-street, and to Spittal-in-the-Street village, 8¾ miles W of Market-Rasen. It belonged formerly to the Harrisons, and belongs now to Sir John M. J. Cholmeley, Bart. The grounds are a meet for the Burton hounds.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a seat"   (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites")
Administrative units: Bishop Norton CP/AP       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Norton Place

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