NORTON, a parish in the hundred of SCARSDALE, county of DERBY, 3 miles (N. by E.) from Dronfield, containing 1697 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £6. 13. 4., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Rev. Henry Pearson. The church, dedicated to St. James, contains several monuments, among which is an altartomb to the memory of the parents of John Blythe, Bishop of Salisbury, and Geffrey Blythe, Bishop of Lichfield, both which prelates were born here. There is a place of worship for Unitarians. A free grammar school was founded and endowed, in 1654, by Edward Gill, in pursuance of the will of his father; the annual income, including several subsequent gifts, is £80, which is applied to the education of about sixty children, in a school-room rebuilt upwards of forty years ago.