SNETTISHAM, a parish in the hundred of SMITHDON, county of NORFOLK, 6 miles (N. by E.) from Castle-Rising, containing 959 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the Icing's books at £5. 6. 8., endowed with £400 private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £300 parliamentary grant. Henry Styleman, Esq. was patron in 1815. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. A market on Friday was formerly held here; the town was then called Snetham. Ancient brass instruments, in the shape of axe heads, with handles to them, usually termed celts, have been discovered in the neighbourhood.