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In 1822, the Parish of NORMANTON contained:

"NORMANTON, a parish-town, in Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield, 4½ miles NE. of Wakefield, 5 from Pontefract, 25 from York. Pop. 250.

The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Andrew, in the deanry of Pontefract, value, ~£7. p.r. £150. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. In this Church is buried the celebrated James Torre, Esq. whose manuscript collections of the Ecclesiastical Antiquities of this county stand unrivalled. He died at Snydale, in this parish, July 31, 1699. --Drake's Ebor. Preface.

Here is a Grammar School, founded and endowed with £10. per annum, by John Fraston, Esq. in the year 1591, for all scholars of his sir name, and thirty others, out of the parishes of Normanton and Warmfield. The money is paid out of the University of Oxford."

Information on the following places in this Parish is contained on a supplementary page.

Altofts Newland Park Snydale Streethouse Woodhouse

Directories

• Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in Baines's Directory of 1822.
• Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in White's Directory of 1887.

Gazetteers

• There is further information about this parish from White's General and Commercial Directory of Wakefield, Horbury, Alverthorpe, Sandal Magna, Stanley and Normanton - 1887

Societies

• This parish is covered (or partly covered) by the following Societies:
  • Wakefield and district FHS
  • Pontefract and District FHS

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