HOVETON (ST-JOHN), a parish in the hundred of
TUNSTEAD, county of NORFOLK, 2 miles (E. S. E.) from
Coltishall, containing 270 inhabitants. The living is
a discharged vicarage, united with that of Hoveton St.
Peter (neither of them rated in the king's books),- in
the archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich, endowed with
£200 royal bounty.