Norton Disney

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Map sources for Norton Disney at grid reference SK8859

Situated between Lincoln and Newark Nottinghamshire, Norton Disney is the seat of the Disney family, from whom Walt Disney is descended.

There is a commemorative brass in the medieval church of St Michael commemorating three generations of the d’Iseni or Disney family, made about 1580. In the bottom panel is an inscription reading

"The lyfe, conversacion and Service, of the first above named William Disney and of Richard Disney his sonne were comendable amongest ther Neighbours trewe and fathefull to ther Prince and cuntre & acceptable Thallmighty of whom the truth they are received to Salvation accordinge to the Stedfast faythe which they had in & throughe the mercy and merit of Christ our savior Thees thuthes are thus sett forthe that in all ages God maybe thankfully Glorified for thes and suche lyke his gracius benifites."

Two mosaic floors were found when excavating a Roman villa in the parish. The site was near to the Roman town of Brough or 'Crocoalana', on the Fosse Way, just over the border in Nottinghamshire.

During the Second World War, RAF Norton Disney was home to 95 MU.