Snettisham, Norfolk

Description
Snettisham, a village and a parish in Norfolk. The village stands adjacent to the Lynn and Hunstanton section of the G.E.R, on which it has a station, 10 1/2 miles N by E of Lynn. It was once a market-town, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Lynn, an ancient cross, and a statute fair on 12 Oct. The parish contains also Southgate hamlet, and extends some distance along the Wash. Acreage, 5828; population, 1318. The manor belongs to the Le Strange family. The Old Hall, a large mansion of brick in the Elizabethan style, and the New Hall, a mansion of Carr stone surrounded by a park, are chief residences. British celts and other antiquities have been found. There are chalk pits and limekilns, and three quarries of Carr stone in the parish. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £83 with residence. The church, a fine building of stone and flint in the Perpendicular style, comprises nave, aisles, and S transept, restored in 1856 at a cost of £1200; includes remains of a ruined chancel, and has an E tower with lofty spire serving as a landmark to mariners. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels, a public hall erected in 1890 capable of seating300 persons, and an endowed grammar school, founded in 1708, and reorganised in 1875.