The well-known and highly acclaimed ‘a cappella’ choir, Parnham Voices were the performers at the 2015 Norton Festival Weekend.   They performed in the Church on Friday 9th October a varied programme.   The […]

Harvest was celebrated in the widest sense on 11th October with a thanksgiving for everything associated with the community.   In the morning a former Nortonian, The Venerable Frank Bentley, preached.   […]

The Norton Reading Room has fulfilled many roles over its history, not the least of which had been to provide reading material!   In the late nineteenth century its records reveal that […]

Norton has a lot of very talented artists and craftsmen who work from the village. Many of them put their work on display in the Norton Reading Room during the period […]

Local people, of all ages, created scarecrows for the 2015 Norton Festival.   It was an activity, simply for fun, designed to encourage visitors to walk around the village by following a Scarecrow Trail.   Over […]

A feature of the 2015 Norton Festival, for those who visited the church, was the Promenade Performances by local artistes and friends of the village. These were free performances which enabled visitors to walk […]

Originating from the 14th century the Village Feast is a celebration, inspired by the Bishop of the day, for parishes to observe the dedication of their church.   In the case of […]