Saxthorpe, Norfolk

Description
Saxthorpe, a parish, with a village, in Norfolk, on the river Bure, 5 1/2 miles NW of Aylsham, and 11 E by N of Ryburgh. There is a station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway at the adjacent village of Corpusty. It has a post and money order office under Norwich; telegraph office, Corpusty station. Acreage, 2124; population, 278. The manor belongs to the Evans-Lombe family. There is an agricultural-implement factory and an ironfoundry which employs a large number of workpeople. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £178 with residence. Patron, Pembroke College, Cambridge. The church is an ancient and spacious building of flint in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and an embattled western tower. It was restored in 1892 at the cost of Pembroke College.