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Norton
[became part of Letchworth Garden City]
Adjacent Parishes: Baldock, Bygrave, Hitchin, Letchworth, Radwell, Stotfold (Bedfordshire), Willian
It is in the Cashio Hundred and the Hitchin Union
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The Village Inn - The Three Horseshoes
No village is complete without a little inn where gossip and beer may be retailed. The present Three Horse Shoes Inn was erected on the site of an older thatched building about 100 years ago. Simpsons, the Brewers of Baldock rented the inn from the landowner, Mr Morris Pryor, of the Manor House, Baldock. For about 200 years previous to the coming of the Garden City, the licencee had been a member of the Chamberlain family. In the Letchworth museum is a bundle of old almanacs which hung in the chimney corner. The first is of the year 1741, and this and the succeeding ones have been scorched by the flames of the cheerful fire which blazed on a winter's night on the old inn hearth. These almanacs are the property of Mr Frederick Clark Chamberlain, who was the last member of his family to preside at the "Horse Shores". He gave up the tenancy in the very early days of the Garden City.
His grandfather was also the village constable, and each year was in the habit of walking to St Albans to be sworn in and to renew his licence for the sale of beer. ...
From Norton in Hertfordshire [1931]
Locally published postcard of Norton Village
- ?? 1920s ??
Book: Norton before the Garden City
Norton Church - posted 1910
Norton Church and Cottages - posted 1907
Published by the Garden City Association
Book: For information relating to the Pym family see Sentimental Journey
Web Site: Parish of Norton - Includes information on St George and St Nicholas.
Norton Village circa 1904
Nortonbury Farm posted 1906 (copy
known posted 1904)
For other postcards see Letchworth Postcards painted by Frank Dean, circa 1905
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Page updated September 2006
