Description
Irstead, a village and a parish in Norfolk, on Barton Broad, near the river Ant, 11 miles NE from Norwich, and 4 NNW from Wroxham station on the G.E.R. Post town and money order office, Neatishcad, under Norwich; telegraph office, Wroxham. Acreage, 902 of land and 168 of water; population, 136. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £164 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Norwich. The church is a small building of flint and stone in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles. It has a Later English font and a memorial window to William of Wykeham, who was rector of this parish in 1347. There are 41 acres of land belonging to the Irstead trustees, .the rent of which is expended on the poor.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
