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Norfolk - Stanford

William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1883, p. 696.

STANFORD, a small village and parish on the south side of the Wissey, 6 miles S.W. of Watton, is in Swaffham union and county court district, Grimshoe petty sessional division and hundred, Lynn bankruptcy district, Watton polling district of West Norfolk, Cranwich rural deanery, and Norfolk archdeaconry. It had 169 inhabitants in 1881, living on 2665 acres, and has a rateable value of £1151. Lord Walsingham is lord of the manor and chief landowner, and has greatly improved the estate. The CHURCH (All Saints) comprises nave, aisles, porch, chancel, and tower. The latter is round at the base and octagonal above. The churchyard was enclosed in 1849, and the church has since been restored and partly rebuilt at a cost of nearly £900, raised by subscription. The fine oak roof was given by Lord Walsingham. The Bishop of Norwich is appropriator of the great tithes and patron of the vicarage, which was valued in K.B. at £5 13s. 1d., and is now worth £75. The great tithes were handed over to the incumbent by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in 1876. The living was augmented in 1775 and 1804 with £400 of Queen Anne's Bounty, invested in 16 acres of land. The Rev. Harvey Muriel is the incumbent, and has a good residence built by Lord Walsingham in 1844 at a cost of £600. Near the church is a fine artificial lake covering 40 acres, where there is a fish-house for propagating trout.

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