“Blo’ Norton is a small scattered parish on the north side of the Little Ouse.  The name derives from ‘Blae’, old Saxon/Viking meaning both ‘cold’ and ‘blue’.  The ‘blue’ could refer to the woad plant that grows in wetter areas and is a source of blue dye, and ‘cold’ speaks for itself!  ‘Norton’ is a settlement on the north side of the river.  There is evidence of people living in the area from Saxon times, and perhaps from the Romano-British period.  Aerial photographs show outlines of buildings and tracks that are possibly from the Romano-British period, near to Blo’ Norton Hall.

The Doomesday Survey reported that there were four manors, two of which were owned by Bury St Edmunds Abbey and Ely Abbey, and a small mill on the river.  By the 1300’s, there were two churches, one of which - St Margaret, was pulled down following the Black Death in the 1380’s, when the population fell by two thirds.  The remaining church is the parish church of St Andrew which, until the late nineteenth century, was thatched.  The church has a nave and chancel built 700 years ago, but the windows are later insertions.  The roof span is continuous, as there is not a chancel arch.  The west tower dates from the fourteenth century.  Two non-conformist chapels also existed: an Independent chapel opposite Black and White House was built in the 1720’s, and a primitive Method Chapel along Fen Road built in the 1840’s: both have been demolished.

Blo’ Norton Hall is a part-moated house dating from the sixteenth century, but probably on the site of an earlier house.  The Hall and the small estate have not been bought or sold since it was constructed, but inherited by various families.  One of its more distinguished tenants was Prince Duleep Singh, who lived in the Hall from 1906 until his death in 1926.

The Village Hall was built following the Second World War, when the village was also connected to mains water and electricity.

The parish is about 1300 acres and has a current population of around 250 people, living in 104 houses."