The tiny township of Normanby, reckoned in 1839 to amount to 520 acres, extends in a narrow strip along the north boundary of Stow for the full east west dimension of the parish and is generally no more that 500 metres north to south. No form of separate ecclesiastical provision is recorded. The earthworks are fragmentary but sufficient survives to suggest that Normanby in Stow was a planned village consisting of a rectangular block divided axially by a central north to south street, which for much of its length is still a road. {1} Probable shrunken medieval earthwork crofts, hollow ways, field system and boundaries and medieval ridge and furrow. {2}