RUSTON (EAST), a parish in the hundred of
HAPPING, county of NORFOLK, 5 miles (E. by S.) from
North Walsham, containing 6 inhabitants. The living
is a discharged vicarage, with the rectory of Ridlington,
in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich,
rated in the king's books at £11.11.10., endowed with
£200 royal bounty. The church is dedicated to St.
Mary. Professor Porson, celebrated as a critic and classical
scholar, was born here in 1759.