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Norton
Zimbabwe
Norton, town, north-central Zimbabwe. It was named after a farm family murdered (1896) in the Shona uprisings. Developed in the 1960s as a planned industrial township, it is located 29 miles (46 km) west of Harare (formerly Salisbury) on the road and rail line to Bulawayo and 5 miles (8 km) from Lake McIlwaine. Adjacent to the town’s industrial zone is Chibero College of Agriculture (1961), and to the north lies the Darwendale Dam, Lake, and Recreational Park. Pop. (2002) 44,397; (2012) 67,591.
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