HUNWORTH is a parish situated on the Glaven, about 2 miles south-south-west from Holt station, 2½ from Melton Constable station and 10 north-north-east from Ryburgh, in the North-Eastern division of the county, Holt hundred and Erpingham union, rural deanery of Holt and archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich. The church of St. Lawrence is in the Perpendicular style, and consists of chancel, nave, south transept, square embattled tower containing 1 bell and porch. The register dates from the year 1661. The living is a rectory, consolidated with that of Stody. joint yearly value £342, with residence (in this parish, built in 1850, in the Tudor style), and 27 acres of glebe here and 32 at Stody, in the gift of the Marchioness of Lothian and held since 1881 by the Rev. Hugh Scales Fullagar M.A. of Caius College, Cambridge. The Primitive Methodists have a small place of worship here. Constance Marchioness of Lothian, is lady of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is light; subsoil, gravel and chalk. The chief crops are wheat, turnips, barley and grass. The area is 838 acres; rateable value, £900; and the population in 1881 was 214.
Here is a school for boys & girls for this and Stody parishes, supported chiefly by the Marchioness of Lothian & by voluntary contributions; there is also an endowment of £6; Miss Jane Goodbody, certified mistress
CARRIERS.—Croe & Dennis from Holt to Melton Constable station & Coe from Norwich pass through
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