Norfolk - Rockland St.Peter

Francis White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory, of Norfolk 1854, p. 863

ROCKLAND ST. PETER, is a scattered parish, 5½ miles S.E. of Watton, and 4 miles W.N.W. of Attleborough, which includes 100 houses, 447 souls, and 999 acres of land, of which 200 acres with the church are in Shropham hundred. Sir Wm. B. Smijth, Bart., M.P., Benj. Muskett, Esq., and Messrs. Jas. Barnard and Wm. Norton, are the principal land owners : the former is lord of the manor of Kirkhalls, Moynes, and Gurneys. The Church, has a long thatched nave, and the rectory, valued in the King's book at £4 16s. 5½d., and in 1831 at £260, is in the patronage and incumbency of the Rev. Henry Bird, B.A. The glebe is 22a. 3r. 22p. The Primitive Methodists have a chapel here. The Fuel Allotment, 15a. 34p., awarded in 1814, is let for £13 a year. Here is also 2a. 26p. of Old Poor's Land.