Description

Bishop-Norton, a township and a parish in Lincolnshire. The township lies on the river Ancholme, near Ermine Street, 6 miles SSE of Kirton-Lindsey station on the M.S. & L.R., and 9 WNW of Market-Raisen. It has a post office under Kirton-Lindsey (R.S.O.), which is the telegraph office; money order office, Glentham. Acreage, 2449; population of the civil parish, 321; of the ecclesiastical, with Atterby, 422. The parish includes also the township of Atterby. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln, with that of Atterby annexed; joint gross yearly value, £355, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. The church is good. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. Norton Place, a fine country seat, stands in a well-wooded park of 150 acres, about 1 1/2 mile SW of the village.