Description
Ruston, South, or Sco Ruston, a parish in Norfolk, 1 1/2 mile N from Coltisliall station on the Aylsham and Wroxham branch of the G.E.R., and 8 1/2 miles NE from Norwich. Post town, Norwich via Scottow; money order and telegraph office, Coltishall. Acreage, 499 ; population, 115. The living is annexed to Tunstead, in the diocese of Norwich; joint gross value, £256 with residence. The church, dedicated to St Michael, is an ancient edifice of flint in the Decorated style, consisting now of chancel, nave, and S porch only; it formerly had a tower, but this is now only an ivy-clad ruin.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
