Filby, Norfolk

Description
Filby, a parish in Norfolk, near Filby Broad, 3 miles WNW of Caistor, and 2 SW from Ormesby station, on the Great Northern and Midland Joint railway.- It has a post and money eider office under Great Yarmouth; telegraph office, Ormsby. Acreage, 1430; population, 581. About 100 acres are in plantation, and about 160 in a fine lake, which abounds with fish and wild ducks. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £310 with residence. The£ church stands in a grove, has a nave with a roof of trussed rafters, a clerestory of small quatrefoils, a lofty Later English tower, contains an oak rood-screen, and an octagonal font, and is in very good condition. There are Primitive Methodist and Unitarian chapels. Filby House is a chief residence.