Description
Scoulton, a parish, with a village, in Norfolk, 3 3/4 miles E from Watton station on the Bury, Thetford, and Swaffham section of the G.E.R., and 6 NW from Attleborough. It has a post office under Attleborough; money order and telegraph office, Hingham (S.O.) Acreage, 2230; population, 343. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. A sheet of water 1 1/2 mile in circuit has a swampy island with a breeding-place of the black-headed or laughing gull, and belongs to the lord of the manor. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £382 with residence. The church is an ancient building of flint in the Early English style.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
