Norwell, Nottinghamshire
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Norwell is a village and parish near Newark-upon-Trent, in central Nottinghamshire, England. It is close to the border with Lincolnshire, and approximately 2 miles from the A1 road. The village appears in the Domesday Book as Nortwelle.[1] There is a medieval parish church dedicated to St Laurence. There is a public house called 'the Plough'.
On the South side of the Church is a well-defined rectangular moat with a single causeway, into the central area, which would have given access to the medieval "Hall" or house:
"The manor house was built of timber and plaster, roofed with slates, and four rooms on the ground floor and three room on the upper storey; it stood on a mound(Mota)which was surrounded by a moat. A wooden bridge over the moat connected the house to a large outer courtyard where there were extensive outbuildings. In the North of the courtyard there where stables, and a new barn; to the South a bakery, 'hall for husbandry' and brewhouse; to the West another barn, a granary, a dovecote and gatehouse; and to the East 'le olde orcherd'."
Norwell Mill, a tower windmill west of the church, built in 1852 as a four-storey mill, was dismantled in 1920 and reduced to a three-storey stump, roofed over and used as a store. The mill was bought in 1977 and has been undergoing restoration since 1980, the tower being built up to its original height of 42 feet[2] [3].
[edit] References
- ^ Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names (4th ed.), p. 345.
- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus. 1979. The Buildings of England:Nottinghamshire.Harmondsworth, Middx. Penguin.
- ^ Shaw, T. (1995). Windmills of Nottinghamshire. Page 31. Nottingham: Nottinghamshire County Council. ISBN 0-900986-12-3
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