East Ruston, Norfolk

Description
Ruston, East, a parish, with a scattered village, in Norfolk, near the sea-coast, 3 miles E from Honing station and 3 N from Stalham station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway, and 5 1/2 E by S from North Walsham. It has a post office under Norwich; money order and telegraph office, Stalham. Acreage, 2503; population, 645. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. East Ruston Hall is a chief residence. There is a commonage of 296 acres for pasture and fuel. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £296 with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Windsor. The church is an ancient building of flint in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, S aisle, S porch, and an embattled western tower. Person, the Greek scholar, was a native.