Northwold, Norfolk

Description
Northwold, a village and a parish in Norfolk. The village stands on the river Wissey, 3 miles SE by E of Stoke Ferry terminal station on a branch line of the G.E.R., and 7 1/2 N by W of Brandon. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Stoke Ferry (S.O.) The parish contains also the hamlet of Whittington. Acreage, 5823; population of the civil parish, 1144; of the ecclesiastical, 936, The manor belonged once to Burhill, the friend of Raleigh, and belongs now to the Partridge family. There are several fine residences. A fair is held yearly on the 30 Nov. and 1 Dec. An ancient stone cross stands at the Stoke end of the village, and there is a large chalk pit in the parish. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £550 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Norwich. The church, a large and handsome building of flint in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, comprises nave, aisles, and chancel, with a tower of the 14th century, surmounted by ten spirelets, has an ornate oak roof in the nave, and contains remains of a shrine. There are a handsome Wesleyan chapel, a Primitive Methodist chapel, an endowed school erected in 1873, an endowed infant school, fourteen alms-houses, a village hall, reading-room, and library, and some useful charities.