Norfolk - Newton-by-Castle Acre

Entry in Kelly's Directory for Cambridgeshire, Norfolk & Suffolk, 1883, p.401.

NEWTON-by-CASTLE ACRE is a village and parish. 4 miles north-east from Swaffham station, in the Western division of the county, South Greenhoe hundred, Swaffham union and county court district, rural deanery of North Cranwich, archdeaconry of Norfolk and diocese of Norwich. The church of All Saints is a Saxon structure and a very early church, traceable at least to the time of the Confessor: it was originally cruciform, but the transepts have disappeared: it consists of nave only, and has a low square tower. The register dates fromt he year 1800. The living is a vicarage, tithes commuted at £97, in the gift of the Bishop of Norwich. It is proposed to annex this living to Castle Acre. The principal landowners are A. C. Fountaine esq. of Narford Hall, who is lord of the manor, and Edward Wenman Martin esq. The soil is light loan; the subsoil is gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley, turnips and pasture. The area is 1,058 acres; rateable value £1,493; and the population in 1881 was 68.

Parish Clerk, Richard Bloy.

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Letters through Swaffham. Castle Acre is the nearest money order & telegraph office.

Bush Samuel, farm bailiff to T. Matthews, esq. Church farm
Eagle James, beer retailer
Everington William Devas, miller, Newton water mills
Hamilton George, farmer, Manor farm