Description
Metton, a parish in Norfolk, 3 1/2 miles S by W of Cromer stations on the G.E.R. and. Midland and Great Northern Joint railways, and 9 NW from North Walsham. Post town, Roughton, under Norwich; money order office, Cromer; telegraph office, Aldborongh. Acreage, 671; population of the civil parish, 94; of the ecclesiastical, with Felbrigg, 248. The manor belongs to the Ketton family. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Felbrigg, in the diocese of Norwich; joint net value, £268 with residence. The church, a small building of stone in the Early English and Tudor styles, has a brass of 1493 and a modern memorial window.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
