STOW-BEDON, a parish in the hundred of WAYLAND,
county of NORFOLK, 4 miles (S. E. by S.) from
Watton, containing 290 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
Norwich, rated in the king's books at £4. 19. 4., endowed
with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of the Rev. John Eade.
The church, dedicated to St. Botolph, was anciently ap-
propriated to Marham abbey, and had a guild founded
in honour of the Virgin Mary.