It is located 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Rocester, on the B5033 road and the River Dove (which is the traditional border for Staffordshire).

[3] The carpenter's shop at Norbury was associated with the smell of pinewood and the scent of elderflower; Eliot said to Oscar Browning that the elder tree growing at the door of the workshop was an early recollection closely connected with the poetry of her life.

[citation needed] Like many places in Derbyshire, Norbury was mentioned in the Domesday Book, in 1086, together with Roston, amongst the many manors given to Henry de Ferrers by William the Conqueror.

[5] Norbury Manor was given to Henry de Ferrers in 1081,[6] the previous Saxon owner Sweyn having been dispossessed and imprisoned for his part in the uprising of Hereward the Wake.

In 1125 the prior of Tutbury gave Norbury in fee-farm to William Fitzherbert on a yearly rental of 100 shillings.

Exhibiting herself to the paying public whilst lying in her bed holding a bible earned her about £240 (or £14,000 in today's (2008) money,[13] and also attracted the attentions of medical men and ministers of the church.

The saint appears in the centre light of the south window; he is portrayed holding a pastoral staff in his left hand and a book in his right.

[16] Born in the second half of the 6th century, Finnbar was baptised Lochan, but was later called Fionn Barr or the Fair-Headed One.

The crossed legs of Henry, 6th Lord of Norbury c. 1275- c. 1315 indicate his profession of Christian faith and not participation in a Crusade; although his year of death is uncertain it is known that he was not a Crusader Nicholas Fitzherbert, High Sheriff of Derbyshire and 11th Lord of Norbury died in 1473.

He is shown in full plate armour with a collar of alternating suns and roses with a pendant of the White Lion of the House of Marche, the badge of Edward IV.

Ralph bears the Yorkist livery collar of alternating suns and roses, with the White Boar of Richard III as a pendant.

The armour portrayed on the effigy of Ralph Fitzherbert has been reproduced as a fully functional suit of plate.

[19] An incised effigy on an alabaster slab of a woman tied in a shroud has been identified as that of Benedicta (d. 1531) wife of John Fitzherbert, 13th Lord.

In his will he disinherited Benedicta and denied paternity of her children, stating "…Bennett my wyffe hath been of lewd and vile disposicion and cowde not be content with me but forsaken my houshoolde and company and lyffed in other places where yt pleased her.

"[20] The great east window of the chapel originally held 14th century glass depicting a large scene with full-sized figures.

Thomas Bingham,[21] was approached by a Roman Catholic family of Yorkshire with a view to purchasing the glass.

[26] The manor fell into disuse in the 16th century when Sir John FitzHerbert married Ann Eyre and moved to Padley Hall.

The mill is fed from a leat ½ mile in length flowing from a weir on the River Dove.