Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SHOTTESHAM-ALL SAINTS, or High Shottesham

SHOTTESHAM-ALL SAINTS, or High Shottesham, a parish, with a village, in Henstead district, Norfolk; 2¼ miles ESE of Swainsthorpe r. station, and 6 S by E of Norwich. It has a post-office under Norwich. Acres, 1,597. Rated property, £2,522. Pop., 484. Houses, 115. The manor belongs to R. Fellowes, Esq. The living is a vicarage, united with S.-St. Mary, in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £.564.* Patron, R. Fellowes, Esq. The church is good. The charities amount to £11; and the parishes of High S. and Low S. may send eight poor persons to East Greenwich hospital.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Shotesham All Saints CP/AP       Henstead RegD/PLU       Norfolk AncC
Place names: HIGH SHOTTESHAM     |     SHOTTESHAM ALL SAINTS     |     SHOTTESHAM ALL SAINTS OR HIGH SHOTTESHAM
Place: Shotesham

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