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Fritton (St. Catherine)

FRITTON (St. Catherine), a parish, in the union and hundred of Depwade, E. division of Norfolk, 2½ miles (E. by N.) from Long Stratton; containing 301 inhabitants. It comprises 882a. 2r. 22p., of which 625a. 3r. 38p. are arable, 184a. 1r. 34p. pasture, and 63 acres common; the surface is generally flat, and the soil is mixed, but of great fertility. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king's books at £9; patron and incumbent, the Rev. T. Howes, whose tithes have been commuted for £283, and whose glebe comprises 8½ acres. The church is an ancient structure, chiefly early English, with a circular tower in the Norman style, surmounted by an octagonal turret.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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