NORTON, a parish in the hundred of CASHIO, or liberty of ST-ALBAN'S, county of HERTFORD, 1 mile (W. N. W.) from Baldock, containing 313 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of St. Alban's, and diocese of London, rated in the king's books at £5. 6. 8., endowed with £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Rev. R. W. Sutton. The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas.