The Township of Norwich is a municipality located in Oxford County in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. At the centre of the Township of Norwich is the Town of Norwich. The preferred pronunciation of the town name is NOR-witch, which differs from the pronunciation NORR-ij used for the city of Norwich, England. The origin of Norwich, Ontario, is more likely Norwich in upper New York State, the area from which the pioneering families emigrated in the early 19th century, where the community was known as Norwichville.
Norwich, Ontario
A pictorial bird's-eye view of the Town of Norwich in 1881, with drawings of notable buildings.
Quaker Cap
Description of Quaker settlement in Norwich township, from Gourlay's Statistical Account of Upper Canada, published in 1822
Oxford County is a regional municipality in the Canadian province of Ontario. Highway 401 runs east–west through the centre of the county, creating an urban industrial corridor with more than half the county's population, spanning 25 km between the Toyota auto assembly plant in Woodstock and the CAMI General Motors auto assembly plant in Ingersoll. The local economy is otherwise dominated by agriculture, especially the dairy industry.
Oxford County, Ontario
John Graves Simcoe (1752–1806)
Col. William Claus (1765–1827)
recreation of longhouse at Lawson village site in London (Museum of Ontario Archaeology)
