NORMANTON-upon-TRENT, a parish in the northern
division of the wapentake of THURGARTON, county
of NOTTINGHAM, 3 miles (E.S.E.) from Tuxford, containing
297 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage,
in the archdeaconry of Nottingham, and diocese
of York, rated in the king's books at £4. 5., endowed
with £400 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty,
and in the patronage of the Duke of Devonshire. The
church is dedicated to St. Matthew. There is a place
of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. Peter Moreau, in
1725, left a trifling sum for teaching poor children and
providing each a bible; ten are instructed in a schoolhouse
erected by Henry Jackson, whose daughter, Elizabeth
Hall, in 1781, conveyed certain land, producing
about £ 10 per annum, in further support of the master.