Matlask, Norfolk

Description
Matlask, a parish in Norfolk, 5 1/2 miles SE of Holt, and 4 1/2 NNE from Corpusty station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway. Post town, Norwich; money order and telegraph office, Aldborough. Acreage, 476; population of the civil parish, 163; of the ecclesiastical, with Plumstead, 340. Matlask Hall is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £184. Patron, the Duchy of Lancaster. The church is a plain building of flint in the Perpendicular style, and has a round tower with octangular top.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5