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Stow-Bedon (St. Botolph)

STOW-BEDON (St. Botolph), a parish, in the union and hundred of Wayland, W. division of Norfolk, 5 miles (S. E. by S.) from Watton; containing 300 inhabitants. It comprises about 1700 acres; the surface is boldly undulated, and the lower grounds are watered by a small rivulet. Stow-Bedon Hall, a mansion formerly of some importance, is now a farmhouse. The living is a discharged vicarage, endowed with the rectorial tithes, and valued in the king's books at £4. 19. 4½ net income, £295; patron, the Rev. E. Goddard: the glebe comprises 10 acres. The church was anciently appropriated to Marham Abbey, and had a guild in honour of the Virgin Mary. It is chiefly in the decorated and later English styles; the tower fell down in 1797, and has not been rebuilt: the font is large, and beautifully sculptured. In the churchyard are three coffin-shaped tombs, with crosses fleuri. At the inclosure of the parish, 30 acres were allotted to the poor for fuel.

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

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