Brockdish, Norfolk

Description
Brockdish, a village and a parish in Norfolk, on the river Waveney, 4 miles SW by W of Harleston station on the G.E.R., and 6 E of Diss. There is a post and money order office under Scole; telegraph office, Harleston. Acreage of parish, 1092 ; population, 377. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £245 with residence. The church is an ancient building of flint in the Early English style. In the S aisle there is a curious old altar tomb, and the lower portion of the chancel screen is preserved in good condition. The tower, erected in 1865, contains 6 good bells. There is also a Free Methodist chapel. Thorpe Abbotts, The Grove, the Grange, and the Red House are chief residences. Brockdish Hall, now a farmhouse, is a very interesting old place.