Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NORTON-DISNEY

NORTON-DISNEY, a parish, with a village, in the district of Newark and county of Lincoln; on the river Witham, 2 miles E S E of the Fosse way and the boundary with Notts, 3¾ S S E of Swinderby r. station, and 7 N E of Newark. Post-town, Newark. Acres, 2, 305. Real property, £2, 208. Pop., 196. Houses, 38. The manor belongs to Viscount St. Vincent. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £172.* Patron, Viscount St. Vincent. The church is a plain edifice, with a tower; belonged formerly to Sempringham priory; and contains several ancient monuments and brasses of the Disneys. There is a village school.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Norton Disney AP/CP       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Norton Disney

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