Grimston, Norfolk

Description
Grimston, a village and a parish in Norfolk. The village stands 1 1/2 mile E from Grimston Road Station on the Midland and G.N. Joint railway, and 7 miles ENE from Kings Lynn, is nearly a mile long, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Lynn. The parish comprises 4263 acres, and is 6 miles long; population, 1141. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £330 with residence. Patron, Queen's College, Cambridge. The church is a large building of flint and stone in the Early English, Decorated, and Perpendicular styles, and there is a mission chapel, opened in 1884, and Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels. A petty sessional court-house was erected in 1881, and petty sessions are held every first and third Monday in each month. The Marquis of Oholmondeley is lord of the manor.