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Needham (St. Peter)

NEEDHAM (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Depwade, hundred of Earsham, E. division of Norfolk, 1¼ mile (S. W.) from Harleston; containing 310 inhabitants. The parish is bounded on the south by the river Waveney, which separates it from the county of Suffolk; it is on the road from Bury to Yarmouth, and comprises about 1100 acres. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £72; patron and impropriator, W. Adair, Esq.: the great tithes have been commuted for £310, and those of the perpetual curate for £25. 17. The church, originally a chapel to Mendham, has a circular tower of greater antiquity than the nave and choir, which are in the later English style.

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

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