Oxnead, Norfolk

Description
Oxnead, a parish in Norfolk, on the navigable river Bure, 1 mile N of Buxton station on the East Norfolk branch of the G.E.R., 3 1/2 SE of Aylsham, and 10 1/2 N by E of Norwich. Post town, Norwich; money order and telegraph office, Bnxton. Acreage, 650; population of the civil parish, 70; of the ecclesiastical, with Buxton, 616. Oxnead Hall was the seat of Sir W. Paston; went by sale, first to Lord Anson, then to Sir Edward Stracey, Bart., and is now partly demolished and partly a farmhouse. The living is a rectory, annexed to the vicarage of Bnxton, in the diocese of Norwich; joint net value, £350 with residence. The church is a small but ancient structure of flint in the Early English and Decorated styles, which stands secluded and almost hidden by forest trees. It contains an alabaster effigy to Clement Paston, a celebrated naval commander, who died in 1599.