RUSHFORD, a parish in the hundred of GUILT-CROSS,
county of NORFOLK, 4 miles (E. S. E.) from
Thetford, containing, with Snarehill, 168 inhabitants.
The living is a donative. The church is dedicated to
St. John the Evangelist. A chapel and college for
a master and six priests was founded upon the site
of the parsonage-house; about 1342, by Sir Edmund
de Gonville, the rector and founder of Gonville Hall,
Cambridge; it was dedicated to St. John the Evangelist,
and at the dissolution was valued at £85. 15. per annum.