Normanton, Rutland

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Normanton is a village and civil parish on the eastern shore of Rutland Water in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England.

Normanton Park was a seat of the Earls of Ancaster and an important centre of their estates. The stable block of their hall is now Normanton Park hotel. In the 18th century the village was cleared to make a park for the estate of the Heathcote familty with the population mainly re-housed in Empingham.

In the 1970s much of the parish was flooded by the construction of the Rutland Water reservoir.

St Matthew's Church, with a tower built by Thomas Cundy junior in 1826, was to have been demolished but following an outcry an embankment was built around the church leaving it a prominent feature on the water's edge. The structure now houses a museum of the history of Rutland Water.

In 2001 it had a population of 35.

Normanton is the name of a ward of Rutland County Council, returning two councillors. The ward includes Edith Weston, Empingham, North Luffenham and South Luffenham