Gaywood, Norfolk

Description
Gaywood, a village and a parish in Norfolk. The village ' is suburban to King's Lynn, stands on the Gaywood river, three-quarters of a mile E of King's Lynn, and has a post and money order office under Lynn ; telegraph office, Lynn. The parish comprises 2173 acres; population of the civil parish, 952; of the ecclesiastical, with Highgate, 2131. An episcopal palace was built here, in the time of King John, by Bishop Grey. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich ; net yearly value, £368 with residence, The church is ancient, cruciform, and good, and has a brick tower. There is a Wesleyan chapeL There is also in this parish a hospital for poor widows, with revenues amounting to about JE370 a year. Highgate is an adjacent hamlet included in this parish for ecclesiastical purposes, but for civil purposes included in Lynn. It has a mission church erected in 1879.