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Norton-juxta-Kempsey

civil parish in Worcestershire, England

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ65042908 ↗
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Norton-juxta-Kempsey is a civil parish to the south of Worcester in the United Kingdom. It contains the villages of Norton and Littleworth. The parish had a population of 2,458 at the 2021 census. As the parish name suggests, it adjoins Kempsey to the west.

The local primary school takes the name of the civil parish and is located in Littleworth. The east of the parish contains Worcestershire Parkway railway station.

"Juxta" is Latin for "next to, alongside".

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Norton-juxta-Kempsey, civil and parish can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as civil parish in Worcestershire, England. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q65042908. VIAF identifies the subject as 232109863. The Library of Congress control number is nb2012003971. Authority coordinates are 52.164, -2.193. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Norton-juxta-Kempsey” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.