Norton Disney
| Norton Disney | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 St Peter's Church, Norton Disney | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK8859 |
| Location: | 53°7’13"N, -0°40’46"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 226 (2011) |
| Post town: | Lincoln |
| Postcode: | LN6 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | North Kesteven |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Sleaford and North Hykeham |
Norton Disney is a small village and parish in the Kesteven part of Lincolnshire, adjacent to the border with Nottinghamshire. It lies in the south-west of the county's Boothby Graffoe Wapentake. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 226.[1] It lies midway between Lincoln and Newark, two miles to the south-east of the A46 road.
Norton Disney is the seat of the Disney family, the name an Anglicised version of the original French surname d'Isigny, of Isigny-sur-Mer, Normandy, from whom film producer Walt Disney's family might be descended.[2]
The Village has one public house, The Green Man, which was formerly the St Vincent Arms.
History
There is a commemorative brass in the mediæval church of St Michael commemorating three generations of the d’Isigny or Disney family, made about 1580. In the bottom panel is an inscription reading:
- The lyfe, conversacion and Service, of the first above named William Disney and of Richard Disney his sonne were comendable amongest ther Neighbours trewe and fathefull to ther Prince and cuntre & acceptable Thallmighty of whom the truth they are received to Salvation accordinge to the Stedfast faythe which they had in & throughe the mercy and merit of Christ our savior Thees thuthes are thus sett for the that in all ages God maybe thankfully Glorified for thes and suche lyke his gracius benifites.
Two mosaic floors were found when excavating a Roman villa in the parish. The site was near to the Roman town of Brough or Crocoalana, on the Fosse Way, just over the border in Nottinghamshire.
During the Second World War, RAF Station Swinderby (later renamed RAF Station Norton Disney) was home to No 93 Maintenance Unit (No 93 MU) from August 1939 until 1958.
References
- ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11127139&c=Norton+Disney&d=16&e=62&g=6446705&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1464259872859&enc=1. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
- ↑ Uncle Walt's lost ancestors - The Independent newspaper, 1997
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