It borders the neighborhoods of Mountain View on the east, and Raleigh Court on the south.

The northern and western reaches of the neighborhood are bound by the Roanoke River without crossings into both Hurt Park and Cherry Hill across the river.

[2] The origins of Norwich trace to the establishment of the first permanent home in 1825.

[3] By the 1880s the area developed as an industrial village, with foundries and factories such as the Norwich Twine Mill and the Harris Hardwood Company.

[3] Annexed to Roanoke in 1919, the area since the 1960s has remained primarily residential in character, with some areas of industrial infill on the periphery.