Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for IRSTEAD

IRSTEAD, a parish in Tunstead district, Norfolk; near the river Ant, 11 miles NE of Norwich r. station. Post town, Neatishead, under Norwich. Acres, 1, 065. Real property, £1, 565. Pop., 149. Houses, 34. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory, annexed to the vicarage of Barton-Turf, in the diocese of Norwich. The church is good, and has a later English font. There are fuel allotments for the poor, worth £12 a year.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Irstead CP/AP       Smallburgh RegD/Inc/PLU       Norfolk AncC
Place: Irstead

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