A large village, pleasantly situated in Henstead Union, 6 miles S.E. of Norwich, with 485 inhabitants, and containing 1,338 acres of rich, well-cultivated land, in the vale of the Yare. Sir Charles H. Rich is lord of the chief manor, and the present proprietors are Hudson Gurney, Esq., and Robert Gilbert, jun., Esq. The church (St. Mary) is a neat building, on a height, and commands an extensive view of the country: it has a chancel and aisle, with thatched roof, and a small square tower. The ivy-covered ruins of another church are still visible in the same churchyard. The living is a rectory annexed to Holverstone, in the gift of Queen’s College, Cambridge, and incumbency of the Rev. J. Dewe, B.A., who lives in the rectory, a new residence adjoining the churchyard; and at the southern extremity of the village, in a vale of the river Yare, is the New Inn, commanding a most extensive view of the river and broad, or lake, of nearly 100 acres. There is a National School for educating 50 children. Beeston, Robert, smith and iron-founder Blaza, Philip, farmer Blake, George, brickmaker Blake, Robert, shopkeeper Coleman, Mr. John Coleman, Rhoda, school-mistress Dewe, Rev. Joseph, B.D., Rectory Edwards, John, farmer Forder, Richard, carpenter Forder, Robert, thatcher George, George, farmer Gilbert, Robert, farmer Goodrum, Richard, farmer Potter, James, gardener Rudd, Henry, victualler, the Crown Roberts, James, shopkeeper and wheel-wright Rudd, Miss Jane Minns, George, farmer Nobbs, Samuel, farmer Thurston, Robert, saddler West, John, victualler, Star Watson, William, victualler, New Inn Wickham, James, bricklayer SPIXWORTH. A small agricultural village in Taverham hundred, about 4½ miles N. of Norwich. It contains about 2000 acres of land; and in 1851 the population was 41. The church of St. Peter is a neat building, with two large Gothic windows; it has a small but lofty tower. The inside contains several monuments to the memory of the Pecks and also the Longes. Broughton, John, blacksmith Eaton, George, farmer Holmes, Benjamin, farmer Howes, Rev. George, Rectory Longe, John, Esq., Hall Porter, Mrs. Jane, farmer STRUMPSHAW. STRUMPSHAW is a parish and scattered village, distant 8½ miles E. of Norwich, 1¾ mile N. from Buckenham station, and 122 miles from London; in Blofield hundred and Union, East Norfolk. The church of St. Peter has a square tower, containing 3 bells. The living is a rectory, value about £520, with that of Bradestone. The Rev. E. S. Whitbread, M.A., is patron and incumbent: there are about 64 acres of glebe land attached. The parish contains about 1,337 acres; and the population in 1851 was 441. There are a few small charities, distributed in fuel and wheat, left by the late Mr. Black.