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4 unusual facts about Normanton


Alice Bacon, Baroness Bacon

She was educated at Normanton Girls' High School and Stockwell Training College.

Normanton-on-the-Wolds

Also the Ives family’s Rushcliffe Breeders farm to the north of the village keeps a small, but conspicuous, Llama herd.

1066 The Norman baron Roger de Busli (c.1038 – c.1099) accompanied William the Conqueror in his successful conquest of England in 1066 and was rewarded with the granting of land.

Normanton, Rutland

The tower and the western portico were built by Thomas Cundy Jr between 1826 and 1829, based on the design of St John's, Smith Square in Westminster, while the nave and apse were constructed in 1911, by J. B. Gridley of London.


Air Queensland

Short distance services operated from Cairns to inland and coastal locations such as Cooktown, Karumba and Normanton.

Katharine Mary Briggs

Returning home (because of the family coal legacy, and a colliery in Normantown, she did not need to seek work), she began writing and running plays – the entire family enjoyed theatrical productions, and it was a lifelong interest of Katharine's – while she studied folklore and 17th-century English history.

Tickle Cock Bridge

Tickle Cock Bridge is a pedestrian underpass in Castleford, England, under a railway line originally built by the York and North Midland Railway between York and Normanton.


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