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Rh NORBRECK. 63 KORFOLK. St. 1'oter. The principal residence is Norbiton Lodge, formerly the seat of the Taveners. NOKBRECK, a tnshp. in the par. of Bispham, hund. of Amounderness, co. Lancaster, 3 miles N.W. of Poul- ton-le-Fylde. It ia joined with Bispham to form a township. NORBROOK, a hmlt. in the Warwick div., Kington hund., co. Warwick, 3 miles S.W. of Warwick. NORBURY, a tnshp. and chphy. in the par. of Stock- port, hund. of Macclesfield, co. Chester, 3 miles S.E. of Stockport, its post town, and 9 E. of Jlacclesfield. The village, which is modern, is situated on a branch of tho river Mersey, and on the Stockport, Disley, and Whaleybridge railway. A portion of the inhabitants are engaged in the silk and cotton weaving, and a con- siderable number in tho collieries. The soil is of a loamy nature, on a subsoil of gravel and clay. Tho living is a perpet. cur. in the dioc. of Chester, val. 80. The church, dedicated to St. Thomas, is a new stone structure, erected in 1835, with a low tower containing six bells. It has a painted E. window. There is a National school for children of both sexes, in which a Sunday-school is also held. T. Lee, Esq., is lord of tho manor and principal landowner. NORBURY, a par. in the Bishop's Castle div. of the hund. of Purslow, co. Salop, 4 miles N.E. of Bishop's Castle, its post town. The village, which is inconsider- able, is wholly agricultural. The par. comprises the tnshps. of Norbury, Asterton, Whitcott, and Hardwick. The surface is generally hilly, and the low lands are watered by numerous small brooks. The soil is light and poor, and in some parts marshy. The living is a cur. annexed to the vie. * of North Lydbury, in tho dioc. of Hereford. The church is dedicated to All Saints. There is a chapel-of-ease on the road to Bishop's Castle. The Primitive Methodists have a place of worship. NORBURY, a par. in tho W. div. of Cuttlestone hund., co. Stafford, 4 miles N.E. of Newport, its post town, and 3 N.W. of Gnosall railway station. The vil- lage, which is of small extent, is situated on the Grand Junction canal, and is wholly agricultural. The par. comprises the hmlts. of Oulton, Weston-Jones, and Loynton. The living is a rect.* in the dioc. of Lich- field, val. 183. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is an ancient stono structure, with a square tower of brick. Tho chancel contains numerous effigies of ancient date. The church was restored in 1827. The parochial charities produce about 50 per annum. There is a National school for both sexes. canal. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in agricul- tural pursuits. The Wcsleyans have a place of worship. There is a school, principally supported by tho rector and the Marquis of Cholmondeley, who is lord of the manor and chief landowner. NORBURY PARK, a seat in the par. of Leather- head, second div. of Copthorne hund., co. Surrey, 1 mile lierhead, and 12 miles E. by N. of Guildford. It formerly belonged to the Locke family, who rebuilt the II'IIIM; on the top of Boxhill, near the fourteen- i'lge on the river Mole. The panels of the wainscoting are painted with views from tho Cumber- hy Jiarrett, and the park abounds in walnut Ni|;i;[TUY WITH ROSTON, a par. in the hund. of Appletroe, co. ])i-rby, 5 miles S.W. of Ashborne, its own, and 2J from Rocestcr. It is a station on the North Staffordshire railway. Tho village, which is of email extent, is situated on the river Dove, and i.s wholly 'dtural. Tho living is a rect.* with the cur. of nncxed, in the dioc. of Lichfield. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is an ancient structure, with a ..ntaiiiing three hells. Tim interior of tho church v. indmvs lilleil with ancient stained of th,.. l-'it/herhrrts, and a i - I' the l-'it/herbert family. The church was restored in 18-11. The parochial charities produce about 37 per annum, of which 17 goes to the free school, founded in 1678 by Thomas Williams. Thomas Fitzherbert, Esq., of Swinnerton, Staffordshire, is lord of the manor. NORCOTT, a tnshp. in tho par. of St. Helen, hund. of Hormer, co. Berks, 1 mile N. of Abingdon. NORCROFT, a hmlt. in the par. of Crawthorne, West Riding co. York, 4 miles W. by N. of Barnsley. NORDLEY-REGIS, a tnshp. in the par. of Alveley, hund. of Stottesden, co. Salop, 5 miles S.E. of Bridg- north. NORE, a river in the co. of Tipperary, Ireland. It rises near Roscrea, in the low country between the Slieve Bloom and Devil's Bit mountains, and after a course of nearly 70 miles in a S.E. direction, joins the river Barrow above New Ross, co. Kilkenny. NORE, THE, an anchorage in 7 to 10 fathom water at tho Thames' mouth. 3 miles N.E. of Sheerness, and 47 from London-bridge. It is marked by a floating light 33 feet high, put up in 1734 at the extremity of the Noro Sands, in N. lat. 51 29' and E. long. 48', from which point outward-bound vessels reckon their departure. The tide here rises to the height of 15 feet, and is nearly two hours sooner than at London-bridge. NORFOLK, a maritime co. of England, on tho E. coast, is bounded on the S. by Suffolk, from which it is separated by the rivers Waveney and Little Ouse, on tho W. by Cambridgeshire, from which it is divided by the None, on tho N.W. by Lincolnshire and the Wash, and on all other sides by tho North Sea. Its greatest length from Yarmouth to the neighbourhood of Wisbeach is 67 miles, and its greatest breadth 43, giving it somewhat of an oval form, its ends lying E. and W. Its area is about 2,114 square miles, or, more exactly, 1,354,367 statute acres, making it tho fourth of English counties, being only exceeded in extent by Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Devonshire. In its earliest times it appears to have been inhabited by an Iberian or Euskardian race, who have loft evidence of their occupation in the names of the rivers, while tho names of tho towns and villages are almost wholly Saxon, with the exception of some places on the E. coast, where a Danish element prevails, tho population of that part of the country being largely mixed with the latter race. Although the country was for many centuries successively occupied by the British, Belgic, and Roman peoples, few traces of these races can bo found in tho nomenclature. At the earliest period of authentic history the country was inhabited by tho Iceni, a powerful tribe of tho Hclgce, who vigorously opposed the Romans in their conquest of tho island ; and in tho reign of the Emperor Nero, their queen, Boadicca, took and burnt the Roman colony of Augusta, now London, and the municipal town of Vcrttlam, or St. Alban's, in the destruction of which above 70,000 Romans and their allies arc said to have perished. After the subjugation of the country by the Romans, it was included in the province o(flariea Camaricnsis, which comprehended all tho E. side and centre of tho island. Tho principal Roman towns or stations in this country appear to have been Venta Icennntm, now C'aistor St. Edmond's, about 3 miles S. of Norwich, and tho capital of tho Iceui ; Garianonum, supposed to be Burgh Castle, and Srano- duimm, the modern Brancaster, both mentioned in tho " Notitia Impcrii ;" Ad Taum, now Tasburgh, mentioned in the " Pcutinger Table ; " and Garryenus, at the mouth of the Yaro, where Yarmouth now stands, mentioned by Ptolemy. Besides these places within the limits of the present shire, Roman ways led from I'm/a Imwnim, the piineipal 1 Ionian post on tho E. side of the island, to Kitniiiiujnx, now Ihmwich, in Suffolk; to JJurotriva, now .i1er ^Newton, in Hunts; to CtanfoHeuiM, now ( 'am- bridge; also a branch road to Castle Aero, on Pcdd.-n-'s Way, which traversed the heaths to Swalt h:mi ; while another road is supposed to have pas-e.l through V<. to Walsingham, in later times known as the 1'ih'i Road, or "Milky Way." Tho lekni.M Sin the Little Ouso above Thett'ord, and ran in the direetion la. After the depaiture of the 1: I'olk was one of the first parts of tho country invaded hy tho