Stratton, Long, or Stratton St Mary, Norfolk
Historical Description
Stratton, Long, or Stratton St Mary, a village and a parish in Norfolk. The village stands If mile E of Forncett Junction station on the Ipswich and Norwich section of the G.E.R., and 10¼ SSW from Norwich, and on the Roman road or street from Caistor to Colchester, which became in later times the turnpike road from Norwich to London through Scole and Ipswich. It is an ancient place, was the Estratunas of the East Anglian kings, and was at one time a market-town. It has a head post office, fairs on Whit Tuesday and 12 Oct., and several tradesmen's guilds, destroyed at the dissolution. The S aisle of the church was the chapel of two of them. Roman urns were found here in 1773. Acreage of the civil parish, 1460; population, 616; of the ecclesiastical, 617. Stratton manor house is a chief residence. Petty sessions are held every alternate Tuesday, and the general visitation court of the Archdeacon of Norfolk for several rural deaneries is annually held here. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £293 with residence. Patron, Caius College, Cambridge. The church, which is a spacious edifice of flint and stone in the 14th-century Gothic style, consists of chancel, nave, aisles, vestry, S porch, and a round embattled tower of 12th-century date. It has some good tombs and memorials, and the almost unique curiosity of a "Sexton's Wheel," also some ancient stained glass collected in the early part of the 19th century from various churches and old houses in the neighbourhood. There is a Congregational chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Norfolk | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Long Stratton St. Mary | |
Hundred | Depwade | |
Poor Law union | Depwade |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
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Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Stratton, Long, or Stratton St Mary from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stratton, Long (St. Mary))
Newspapers and Periodicals
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- Norwich Mercury
- Norfolk Chronicle
- Diss Express
- Thetford & Watton Times and People's Weekly Journal
- Norfolk News
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Norfolk 1563, 1589, and 1613 is available on the Heraldry page.