Description
Wood Norton, a parish in Norfolk, 2 miles from Hindolveston station on the Midland and Great Northern railway. It has a post office under Dereham; money order office, Guist; telegraph office, Foulsham. Acreage, 1729; population, 265. The manor belongs to Christ Church, Oxford, Norton Hall is the chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £265 with residence. Patron, Christ Church, Oxford. The church is a plain building of flint in the Early English style, and has been well restored. There is a Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
