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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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NORWELL, a township and a parish in Southwell district, Notts. The township lies on an affluent of the river Trent, 2 miles S W of Carlton r. station, and 3 N by W of Newark; and has a post-office under Newark. Pop., 601. Houses, 122. The parish contains also the township of Norwell-Woodhouse and the chapelry of Carlton-upon-Trent. Acres, 3, 720. Real property, £7, 547. Pop. in 1851, 957; in 1861, 1,026. Houses, 202. The chief landowners are the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The living is a vicarage, united with the chapelry of Carlton-upon-Trent, in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £356.* Patron, the Bishop of Manchester. The church comprises nave, aisles, transept, S transept chapel, and chancel restored in 1858, with a tower; and contains a stone effigies of a knight. A chapel of ease is in Carlton; and there are a Wesleyan chapel, an endowed school with £53 a year, and charities £16.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Norwell CP/AP Southwell RegD/PLU Nottinghamshire AncC |
| Place: | Norwell |
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