NORTON, a village and a township in Campsall parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands adjacent to the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, 8¼ miles N of Doncaster: and has a station on the railway . The township comprises 2, 830 acres. Real property, £3, 300. Pop., 633. Houses, 144. The manor belongs to Catherine Hall, Cambridge. A priory anciently was here; and the remains of it have been converted into two farm-houses and a few cottages. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and some small charities.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))