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Walton, East (St. Mary)

WALTON, EAST (St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Freebridge-Lynn, W. division of Norfolk, 9 miles (E. S. E.) from Lynn; containing 196 inhabitants. The parish comprises 2643 acres, which are all arable, with the exception of 100 woodland, and 200 warren and common. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £6. 3. 4., and with the rectory of Gayton-Thorpe united; patron, A. Hamond, Esq.; appropriator, the Bishop of Ely. The great tithes of the parish have been commuted for £230, and the vicarial for £178; the glebe comprises an acre and a quarter, and there is a glebe-house. The church consists of a nave and chancel, with a circular tower. In the garden of a farmhouse adjoining the churchyard, are the picturesque ruins of St. Andrew's chapel, formerly belonging to a priory.

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

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