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2 unusual facts about Normanton-on-the-Wolds


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.


Air Queensland

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

Alice Bacon, Baroness Bacon

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

Church of St Mary and All Saints, Willoughby-on-the-Wolds

The Church of St. Mary and All Saints, Willoughby-on-the-Wolds is a parish church in the Church of England in Willoughby on the Wolds, Nottinghamshire, England.

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.

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.

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.

Yorkshire Wolds

Recently excavated long barrows at Fordon on Willerby Wold and at Kilham have been carbon dated to around 3700 B.C. A well-known round barrow of this period is the monumental Duggleby Howe, at the western end of the Great Wolds Valley, partially excavated in 1890 by J.R. Mortimer.


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