NORTON, a parish in the wapentake of BUCKROSE,
East riding of the county of YORK, comprising
the townships of Norton, Sutton, andWelham, and containing
1168 inhabitants, of which number, 1017 are in
the township of Norton, half of a mile (E. S. E.) from New
Malton. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
archdeaconry of the East riding, and diocese of York,
endowed with £200 private benefaction, £400 royal
bounty, and £1100 parliamentary grant, and in the
patronage of - Ewbank, Esq. Norton is separated
from Malton by the river Derwent, which is here
crossed by a stone bridge, at the foot of which there
was formerly an hospital, founded early in the reign of
Henry II., by Roger de Flamville, and made subordinate
to the priory of Malton. From the great number
of Roman coins discovered, this is supposed to have
been anciently a place of more consequence than it is
now.