BRUMSTEAD, a parish in the hundred of HAPPING, county of NORFOLK, 6 miles (E. S.E.)- from North Walsham, containing 93 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £ 6.5.7, and. in the patronage of the Earl of Abergavenny. The church is dedicated to St. Peter.