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NORMANTON

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 756 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NORMANTON , an See also:

urban See also:district in the Normanton See also:parliamentary See also:division of the See also:West See also:Riding of See also:Yorkshire, See also:England, on the See also:river See also:Calder, 3 M. N.E. of See also:Wakefield on the Midland, See also:North Eastern and See also:Lancashire & Yorkshire See also:railways. Pop. (1901) 12,352. The See also:church of All See also:Saints is See also:Norman and Perpendicular, with a square See also:tower rebuilt in 1717, and contains a number of interesting monuments; the See also:ancient stained See also:glass is See also:good. The See also:grammar-school was founded about the end of the 16th See also:century. Traces remain of a See also:moat surrounding the See also:town. A See also:mound in the neighbourhood called Haw See also:Hill is supposed to be a See also:barrow. Altofts, a neighbouring See also:parish, was the See also:home of See also:Sir See also:Martin See also:Frobisher in the 16th century. There are numerous collieries in the neighbourhood.

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