Description
Beeston-St-Lawrence, a parish in Norfolk, 3 miles NE of Wroxham station on the G.E.R., and 10 1/2 NE of Norwich, which is the post town; money order office, Neatishead; telegraph office, Wroxham. Acreage, 525; population of the civil parish, 47; of the ecclesiastical, including Ashmanhaugh, 180. Beeston Hall, the property of the Preston family, is in this parish. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich ; value, £245 with residence. The church is good, has a round tower, and contains some handsome monuments of the Prestons. The west end represents the original building, which contains indications of Saxon date.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
