Description
Cantley, a parish in Norfolk, on the navigable river Yare, over which there is a ferry, and the Norwich and Yarmouth section of the G.E.R., 10 miles ESE of Norwich. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Norwich; money order and telegraph office, Beedham. Acreage, 1847; population, 257. Cantley House is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross yearly value, £312 with rectory house. The church is a small building of flint in the Norman and Perpendicular styles.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
