KIRSTEAD parish comprises 259 souls, 56 houses, and 1,010 acres of land, and is situated 7 miles S.S.E. of Norwich. The land is chiefly the property of G. S. Kett, Esq., Charles Kerrison, Esq., Bethel Hospital, Norwich, and Mr. William Dring Whall. The former is lord of the manor. The Church, dedicated to St. Margaret, is a humble edifice, with a thatched roof, and the living is a rectory, valued in the King's book at £10, and in 1831, at £334, in the patronage of Emanuel College, Cambridge, and incumbency of the Rev. John Lewis. The parish is sometimes called Kirstead-with-Langhall, and there was anciently a Church here, dedicated to St. Stephen, and a rectory called Langhall. The poor have a yearly rent-charge of 20s., left by Thomas Spooner, in 1630.
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