HORSEY-next-the-SEA, a parish in the hundred of HAPPING, county of NORFOLK, 8 miles (N. N. w.) from Caistor, containing 95 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £3. 1.5., endowed with £800 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Governors of North Walsham school. The church, now in ruins, was dedicated to All Saints. This parish principally consists of low marshes and bogs; it,is nearly insulated by the sea on the east; the Hundred stream, or river, which separates Happing from East Flegg, on the south; and Eelfleet dyke and Horsey mere on the west and north.