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Corton in Suffolk County England History and GeographyCORTON, a parish in the hundred of MUTFORD and LOTHINGLAND, county of SUFFOLK, 3 miles (N.) from Lowestoft, containing 375 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, endowed with £600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Crown. The church, dedicated to St. Bartholomew, is partly in ruins, the porch, and the lateral walls of the nave being nearly overspread with ivy, but divine service is still performed in the chancel, though from its beautiful tower, still perfect, and which, from its elevated position, serves as a land-mark for mariners, and its extensive ruins, there is reason to presume that it was a structure of much magnificence: the remains of another church or chapel, still visible at a place called the Gate, together with old ruins and foundations discovered in many parts, lead to the inference that the village of Corton was in former times much larger than it is at present, and probably the resort of many fishermen at the period when the mouth of Yarmouth harbour extended nearly to this place. Coins, fossils, &c., have been found within the base of the cliff, which borders on the German ocean, on its being undermined by the tide; and a stratum of oak, several feet thick, and extending in length more than two hundred yards, was exposed to the view, after a severe storm in 1812. About the same time, a part of the pelvis, or haunch bones of the mammoth, now in Mr. Sowerby's museum, London, together with other antediluvian remains, were found half a mile northward of the place. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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