LESSINGHAM is a parish and village, 3½ miles N.N.E. of Stalham, and 8 miles E. by S. of North Walsham, comprising, 191 souls, 51 houses, and 640 acres of land, mostly the property of B. Cubitt, Esq. ; but the manor is held by King's college, Cambridge. The Church is dedicated to All Saints, and the living is a rectory, valued in the King's book at £6, and consolidated with Hempstead. There are 21a. 1r. 16p. of glebe, and the tithes were commuted in 1841, for £240 per annum. Here was anciently a priory, subject to Bee abbey, in Normandy ; but it was suppressed in the reign of Henry VI. The Poor's Land, 3a. 22p., was awarded at the enclosure. The Rev. Jonathan Chaloner, in 1727, left the yearly sum of £4 for schooling poor children, and £4 6s. for the poor, who have also £1 7s. 8d. per annum, left by John Ringer, Oliver Hartstring, and Thos. Smith. The Methodists built a chapel here in 1843, and here is a National school for this and Hempstead parish.
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