STOKE-FERRY, a market-town and parish in the hundred of CLACKCLOSE, county of NORFOLK, 38 miles (W. by S.) from Norwich, and SS£ (N. N. E.) from London, containing 703 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, endowed with £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of G. Nightingale, Esq. The church, dedicated to All Saints, had formerly a square tower. This town, is situated on the banks of the river Wissey, on the turnpike-road from London to Newmarket. In the reign of Henry III. it obtained a grant for holding a weekly market and an annual fair, which was confirmed by Henry VI.: the market was for a long period disused, but has been recently revived, and is now held on Friday, principally for corn; and the fair on December 6th, for cattle. The population has considerably increased since the last census, and now exceeds nine hundred persons, many of whom are employed in the very extensive malting establishments of Messrs. Whitbread and Co., whose superintendent has successfully adopted a superior plan for drying the malt, and has obtained a patent for his improvements. Twenty-five boys of Stoke-Ferry and Wretton are gratuitously educated in a school founded by the late James Bradfield, Esq.