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Norton

Norton

The Farms in Norton

Nortonbury Farm

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Nortonbury Farm
posted 1906
(copy known posted 1904)
Valentine's series (unnumbered)

Farmers from Kelly's Directories

Edward Smyth: 1866
Hugh Smyth:1882, 1890
Nicholas Stick: 1895, 1902, 1908, 1917
Charles Webb: 1922, 1929, 1937

Cooper's Farm

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This is a 17th century farmhouse which by the late19th century had been divided into three cottages. It was radically converted in 1909 and was then named "The Old Manor Farm " and later "The Old Manor House." Kelly's directories show that John Ernest Matthews  was there in1917, and Frank Horsfield is listed between 1922 and 1937 The card shows the farm before it was converted. See Images of England for modern picture and details of listing status.  
Coopers Farm, Norton
 
From a painting by Frank Dean


Old Farm House, Norton
From a painting by Louis Weirter

   

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