Country Canada Established 1795 Population 1,296 (2011) | County Queens County Time zone AST (UTC-4) Province New Brunswick | |
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Norton is a Canadian parish in Kings County, New Brunswick.
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History
Norton Parish was created in 1795 from Sussex Parish and Kingston Parish: possibly named for Norton, near Taunton, in southern Massachusetts, which was the original home of many of the first settlers to this area.
Delineation
Norton Parish is defined in the Territorial Division Act as being bounded:
East by Sussex and Studholm Parishes; north by Kingston and Springfield Parishes; south by the Kennebecasis River and the centre of the old Westmorland Road, and west by Kingston Parish and the lower line of lot number fourteen, granted to John Fritch, prolonged southeasterly.Communities
Parish population total does not include incorporated municipalities (in bold):
Bodies of water & Islands
This is a list of rivers, lakes, streams, creeks, marshes and Islands that are at least partially in this parish
Access Routes
Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits:
References
Norton Parish, New Brunswick Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA