Description
Swanton Novers, a village and a parish in Norfolk, 2 miles SW from Melton Constable station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway, and 6 SW from Holt. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Melton Constable (S.O.) Acreage, 1349; population, 293. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor, with Swanton House, belongs to Lord Hastings. There is a parish reading-room. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £182 with residence. Patron, Lord Hastings. The church is a building of flint in the Perpendicular style, and there is a Free Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
