Stanhoe, Norfolk

Description
Stanhoe, a parish, with a village, in Norfolk, on the Wells and Heacham branch of the G.E.R., on which it has a station, 4 miles SSW of Bumham Market. It has a post and money order office under Kings Lynn; telegraph office, Docking. Acreage, 1497; population of the civil parish, 444; of the ecclesiastical, 507. Stanhoe Manor belongs to the Seymours, and the manor of Marshes, with Stanhoe Hall, to the Calthrop family. The living is a rectory, united with Bar-wick, in the diocese of Norwich; joint net value, £334 with residence, in the gift of the Seymour family. The church is a structure of flint in the Early English and Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and an embattled tower. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.