Caldecot (Virgin Mary)
CALDECOT (Virgin Mary), a parish, in the union of Swaffham, hundred of South Greenhoe, W. division of Norfolk, 4 miles (N. E.) from Stoke-Ferry; containing 48 inhabitants, and comprising about 640 acres. The living is a discharged sinecure rectory, valued in the king's books at £3. 1. 10½.; net income, £6; patron and impropriator, Sir H. R. P. Bedingfield, Bart. The church has been in ruins upwards of a century and a half, and the village has disappeared.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.