Description
Catfield, a village and a parish in Norfolk, adjacent to Barton and Hickling Broads, 8 miles SE of Worstead, with a station on the M. & G.N. Joint railway, and a post and money order office under Great Yarmouth; telegraph office at the railway station. Acreage of the parish, 2461; population, 590. Catfield Hall is a residence of the Lubbock family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £412 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Norwich and a private patron alternately. The church is an ancient building of flint and stone in the Decorated style. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
