Melville and Co.'s Directory and Gazetteer of Norwich, Yarmouth, Dereham, Swaffham, Wymondham, Fakenham, Thetford, Attleborough, Aylsham, Diss, Reepham, Foulsham, Hingham, &c.; Ipswich, Bury St. Edmund's, Woodbridge, Lowestoft, Beccles, Bungay, Halesworth, Eye, Stowmarket, Needham Market, &c. [1856]

by F. R. Melville & Co.

SWAINSTHORPE.

A railway station, village, and parish in the hundred of Humbleyard, 108 miles from London, and 5½ from Norwich S. by W., containing 240 inhabitants, and 819 acres of land. The church is dedicated to St. Peter; the rectory of which is in the patronage of R. K. Long, Esq., and the Rev. Henry Long.

Bennett, Benjamin, shoemaker

Brandford, Ezra, victualler, Dun Cow

Canham, E., station master

Cannell, Jacob, butcher

Carpenter, Robert, farmer

Ecclestone, Henry, police officer

Freeman, Mr., academy

Gooch, G. Sutton, veterinary surgeon

Gooch, Rachel, smith and wheelwright

Muttimer, George, farmer

Turner, Mr. and Mrs., master and matron of Union House