Horstead, Norfolk

Description
Horstead, a village and a parish in Norfolk. The village of Horstead stands on the river Bure, half a mile W from Coltishall station on the G.E.R., and 6 miles NNE from Norwich, and took its name, which is a corruption of " Hursted " or wood-place, from the former abundance of wood about it. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Coltishall. Acreage of the civil parish, 2849; population, 583; of the ecclesiastical, 547. The manor belongs to the Provost and Fellows of King's College, Cambridge. Horstead Hall, a mansion of 1835 in the Tudor style, is the seat of the Birkbeck family. Heggatt Hall is a fine Elizabethan building close to the hamlet of Heggatt Street. An ancient priory was here, a cell to Trinity Abbey at Caen, in Normandy, and was given to King's College, Cambridge. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value,, £366 with residence. Patron, King's College, Cambridge. The church has been rebuilt with the exception of the ancient square tower, and contains an ancient font, and monuments of the Hornsells, the Wards, and the Townshends.