Santon, Norfolk

Description
Santon, a parish in Norfolk, on the borders of Suffolk, and on the N side of the Little Ouse river, 3 1/2 miles E of Brandon station on the Ely and Norwich section of the G.E.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Brandon. Acreage, 1527; population, 37. The manor, with all the land, belongs to the Mackenzie family. The land is chiefly heath and wood, and abounds with game. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £98. The church, which was rebuilt in 1628 from the ruins of a larger one which formerly existed here, is a small building of flint in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, N porch, and an embattled western tower surmounted by an octagonal belfry. The chancel, with its roof, was erected from material famished by the S transept of West Tofts Church, which was rebuilt in 1858.