Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HADDISCOE

HADDISCOE, a village and a parish in Loddon district, Norfolk. The village stands near the East Suffolk and the Lowestoft railways, and near the river Waveney and the boundary with Suffolk, 5 miles N by E of Beccles; and has a station on the Lowestoft railway, and a post office under Norwich. The parish comprises 2, 071 acres. Real property, £4, 057. Pop., 355. Houses, 81. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to H. S. Grimmer, Esq.; and the manor house is pleasantly situated, and commands fine views. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of MonksToft, in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £500.* Patron, King's College, Cambridge. The church stands on a rising. ground; is ancient, battlemented, and very good; and has a Norman south door, an apsidal chapel, and a round five storey tower. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel, and town lands £50. A preceptory of Knights Templars was here in the time of Henry III.; and a bridge, called St. Olave's, was built over the Waveney by Dame Hobart, in the time of Henry VII., and rebuilt in 1770, and in 1848.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Haddiscoe AP/CP       Loddon and Clavering RegD/PLU       Norfolk AncC
Place: Haddiscoe

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