Description
Leziate, a parish in Norfolk, 2 1/2 miles N of East Winch station on the G.E.R., and 4 1/2 E of Kings Lynn. Post town, Lynn; money order and telegraph office, Gayton. Acreage, 1480 ; population of the civil parish, 212 ; of the ecclesiastical, with Ashwicken, 323. About 104 acres are rabbit-warren and common. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Ashwicken, in the diocese of Norwich ; joint net value, £438 with residence. The old church was destroyed long ago, and only the foundations remain, but a small mission church to seat about 100 was erected in 1883.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
