Description
Paston, a parish in Norfolk, on the coast, 4 miles NE from North Walsham station on the G.E.R. and Midland and Great Northern Joint railway, and 9 SE from Cromer. Post town, North Walsham; money order and telegraph office, Mundesley. Acreage, 1390; population, 278. Paston Hall is the seat of the Mack family, who own the manor. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £130 with residence. The church, which is prettily situated amid a grove of trees, is a building of stone in the Early Decorated style, and consists of nave, chancel, and western tower; it contains monuments of the Paston family, some members of which wrote and received the well-known " Paston Letters."
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
