Walpole St Peter, Norfolk

Description
Walpole St Peter, a village and a parish in Norfolk. The village stands 2 miles from Walpole railway station, and 8 3/4 W by S of Lynn, and has a post office under Wisbech; money order office, Walpole St Andrew; telegraph office, Walpole railway station. The parish comprises 7252 acres; population of the civil parish, 1149; of the ecclesiastical, 1105. There is a parish council consisting of eleven members. Bricks and tiles are made. The Roman sea-wall crosses the parish, and Roman relics have been found. The living is a rectory, with St Edmund annexed, in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £550 with residence. Patron, the Crown. The church of St Peter is a building of stone in the Early English and Decorated styles; that of St Edmund, at Walpole Highway, is in the Norman style. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, and twelve almshouses.