Description
Skeyton, a parish, with a village, in Norfolk, 3 1/2 miles E from Buxton Lammas station on the East Norfolk section of the G.E.R., and 11 N from Norwich. Acreage, 1303; population, 277. Post town, Norwich, under Swanton Abbott; money order and telegraph office, Buxton Lammas. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £163 with residence. The church, which stands on an eminence, is an edifice of flint in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and a low western tower. There are Wesleyan and Wesleyan Reform chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
