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Worstead in Norfolk County England History and GeographyWORSTEAD, a parish (formerly a market town) in the hundred of TUNSTEAD, county of NORFOLK, 2¾ miles (S.S.E.) from North Walsham, and 121 (N.E. by N.) from London, containing 706 inhabitants. This place was formerly celebrated for the invention and manufacture of woollen twists and stuffs, thence called worsted goods; but this branch of trade, soon after its introduction by the Flemings, in the reign of Henry I., was, on the petition of the inhabitants of Norwich, removed to that city in the reign of Richard II., where it was finally established in the reign of Henry IV. The town at present has neither any manufacture nor trade: a navigable canal, which joins the sea at Yarmouth, passes through it. The market is entirely disused; but a fair for cattle is held on the 12th of May, and another at Scotto, an adjoining parish, on Easter-Tuesday. A manorial court is held annually, at which constables and other officers are appointed. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £10, and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a spacious and elegant structure, partly in the decorated, and partly in the later, style of English architecture, with a lofty square embattled tower, strengthened with enriched buttresses, and crowned with pinnacles; forming, both in its combinations and details, a beautiful specimen of the decorated style: the chancel and the nave are principally in the later style, and are ornamented with screen-work of wood richly carved: the font is peculiarly rich, the sides being highly ornamented, and the pedestal on which it is supported is relieved with buttresses and canopied niches, and the risers of the steps are panelled in compartments; the cover is of tabernacle-work elegantly designed. There is a place of worship for Baptists, connected with which is a Sunday school, conducted on the National plan, and supported by subscription. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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