Stockton, Norfolk

Description
Stockton, a village and a parish in Norfolk, 3 1/2 miles NW of Beccles station on the Ipswich and Yarmouth section of the G.E.R. Post town, Bungay; money order and telegraph office, Geldeston. Acreage, 1054; population, 130. The manor is held by the Kerrich family. The living is a discharged rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £200 with residence. The church, dedicated to St Michael and All Angels, restored in 1880, is a small building of flint in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and a round western tower with spire and five bells. There is a fine stained-glass E window. There is a town estate situated at Burgh St Peter's worth about £65 a year, the rent of which is divided between the repair of the church and the poor.