Salthouse, Norfolk

Description
Salthouse, a parish in Norfolk, on the coast, 4 miles N by W of Holt station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway, and 10 E from Cromer. It has a post office under Holt (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Cley. Acreage, 1574; population, 215. There is a parish council consisting of five members and a chairman. The land is undulating, the upper portions commanding fine views, but about 340 acres are marsh land, at one time embanked and drained, but now liable to inundation. The living is a rectory, annexed to Kelling, in the diocese of Norwich; joint net value, £350 with residence. The church is a lofty and spacious building of flint and stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, N and S porches, vestry, and an embattled western tower. There is a Free Methodist chapel. A curious ancient earthwork lies in the S of the parish, near Kelling.