Description
Swanton Abbot, a parish in Norfolk, 3 miles SSW of North Walsham, and 2 1/2 W from Worstead station on the Cromer branch of the G.E.R. It has a post office under Norwich; money order and telegraph office, Worstead. Acreage, 1174; population, 462. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor belongs to the Forster family. Swanton Hall is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £183 with residence. The church, which stands on an eminence, is an ancient edifice of flint in the Early Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and a western tower. It has a brass of 1477. There are Swedenborgian, Wesleyan, and Wesleyan Reform chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
