GORLESTON, a parish in the hundred of MUTFORD-and-LOTHINGLAND,
county of SUFFOLK, containing 1928
inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, with
which the rectory of South Town was consolidated in
1520, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of
Norwich, rated in the king's books at £11.. Mrs. Astley
was patroness in 1814. The church is dedicated to St.
Andrew. There are places of worship for Independents
and Wesleyan Methodists. The parish is bounded on
the east by the North sea, and on the north by Bredonwater,
where a bridge connects the village of Gorleston,
or Little Yarmouth as it is sometimes called, with the
town of Great Yarmouth. A house of Augustine friars
was founded in the reign of Edward I.; and an hospital
for lepers existed here in 1372.