Description
Coston, a parish in Norfolk, on the river Blackwater, 2 miles NE from Hardingham station on the G.E.R., and 4 1/2 miles NW of Wymondham. Post town, Wymondham; money order office, Barnham Broom; telegraph office, Wymondham. Acreage, 355; population, 55. The living is a rectory, united with the vicarage of Runhall, in the diocese of Norwich; joint net yearly value, £96 with residence. Patrons, alternately the Bishop of Norwich and the Earl of Kimberley. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style. Coston-Hackett. See COFTOS-HACKETT.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
