NORMANTON-upon-SOAR, a parish in the southern division of the wapentake of RUSHCLIFFE, county of NOTTINGHAM, 4 miles (N.N.W.) from Loughborough, containing 326 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Nottingham, and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £7 H- 0., and in the alternate patronage of - Richards, and - Buckley, JEsqrs. The church is dedicated to St. John. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.