Norton in Hales

Norton in Hales
Church of St Chad
Norton in Hales is located in Shropshire
Norton in Hales
Norton in Hales
Location within Shropshire
Population620 (2011)[1]
OS grid referenceSJ702386
Civil parish
  • Norton in Hales
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townmarket drayton
Postcode districtTF9
Dialling code01630
PoliceWest Mercia
FireShropshire
AmbulanceWest Midlands
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Shropshire
52°56′38″N 2°26′35″W / 52.944°N 2.443°W / 52.944; -2.443
Monument to Sir Rowland Cotton and his wife in St Chad's Church, Norton in Hales

Norton in Hales is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England.

It lies on the A53 between the town of Market Drayton and Woore, Shropshire's most northeasterly village and parish.

Staffordshire is to the east of the parish and Cheshire to the west. Also within the parish is the village of Betton and hamlet of Ridgwardine.

The parish church is Saint Chad's, rebuilt in the 19th century.[2] Also within the village are Norton in Hales Church of England Primary School, the Hind's Head Inn, and a large playing field.

The monument to Frances, Lady Cotton (d. 1606) in St Chad's was designed by Inigo Jones around the year 1611. Her husband Rowland Cotton, who commissioned the tomb, was associated with the court of Prince Henry, as was Jones. The tomb is the earliest known work of Inigo Jones.[3]

Upon the village green near the church stands a rock known as The Brading Stone. It was said by local tradition anyone caught working after noon on Shrove Tuesday would be "bumped" upon the stone.[2]

Tunstall Hall is a Grade II* listed building, built in about 1732, formerly a girls' school, and now a residential home offering specialist care in dementia.[4][5]

The engineer Samuel Owen, who later emigrated to Sweden where he became an industrialist, was born at Norton in 1774.[6]

Cattle near the Hollies

See also

References

  1. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 29 November 2015.
  2. ^ a b Haines, George H. (1974). Shropshire and Herefordshire Villages. Robert Hale and Company, London. p. 67. ISBN 0-7091-4767-8.
  3. ^ Giles Worsley, Inigo Jones and the European Classical Tradition (Yale, 2007), p. 6.
  4. ^ "Tunstall Hall - Norton in Hales - Shropshire - England". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
  5. ^ "History of Tunstall Hall Care Centre". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
  6. ^ "Post". nortoninhales.

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