Riddlesworth, Norfolk

Description
Riddlesworth, a parish in Norfolk, on the Little Ouse river, at the boundary with Suffolk, near the Peddar Way, H miles SSW of Harling Road station on the Thetford and. Norwich section of the G.E.R., and 6 E by S of Thetford.. It has a post office under Thetford; money order and telegraph office, Hopton. Acreage, 1167; population of the civil parish, 85; of the ecclesiastical, 241. The manor, with Riddlesworth Hall, a handsome mansion of white brick standing in a park of 120 acres, was sold in 1894 to Mr W. N. Champion. The living is a rectory, united with Gasthorpe and Knettishall, in the diocese of Norwich; joint net value, £260 with residence. The church is an ancient edifice of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave,. S porch, and an embattled western tower.