Haddiscoe, Norfolk

Description
Haddiscoe, a village and a parish in Norfolk. The village stands near the river Waveney and the boundary with Suffolk, 5 miles N by E from Beccles, and has a station on the G.E.R., and a post office under Norwich; money order office, Toft; telegraph office, Reedham. The parish comprises 2033 acres, nearly half of which are marsh land; population of the civil parish, 397; of ecclesiastical, with Tofts, 787. The manor belongs to the Grimmer family, and the manor-house is pleasantly situated, and commands fin& views. The Hall, the seat of the Palmer family, is also a chief residence with beautiful grounds. There are large chemical manure works here. The living is a rectory,. united with the rectory of Toft Monks, in the diocese of Norwich; net value,, £349 with residence. Patron, King's College, Cambridge. The church stands on a rising-ground,. is ancient, battlemented, and very good, and has a Normaa doorway and a round five-storey tower containing triangular-arched windows of Early Norman design. There are a, Primitive Methodist chapel, and town lands worth about £12 a year. A preceptory of Rnights Templars was here in the time of Henry IIL, and a bridge, called St Olave's, was built over the Waveney by Dame Hobart in the time of Henry VII., and rebuilt in 1770 and in 1848.