Felbrigg, Norfolk

Description
Felbrigg, a parish in Norfolk, 3 miles SW of Cromer station on the G.E.R., and 10 NW of North Walsham. Post town, Norwich; money order and' telegraph office, Cromer. Acreage, 1573; population of the civil parish, 154; of the ecclesiastical, with Metton, 248. The manor belonged to Sir Simon de Felbrigg of the 14th century, and passed by purchase first to Lord Scales and next to the Wyndhams- one of whom was the eminent statesman, the Right Hon. William Wyndham. It now belongs to the Ketton family. Felbrigg Hall is partly of the time of Henry VIII., partly of the time of Elizabeth, and has received modern improvements, rendering it an elegant mansion, and stands in a fine situation, on comparatively high land, amid a fine demesne of 700 acres. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Metton, in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £274 with residence. The church, a building of flint and stone in the Perpendicular style, is sadly dilapidated, and contains brasses and monuments, some of them very fine ones, of the De-Felbriggs and the Wyndhams.