BACTON, a parish in the hundred of TUNSTEAD,
county of NORFOLK, 4 miles (N. E. by E.) from North
Walsham, containing 38,8 inhabitants.. The living is a
discharged vicarage, Jn the archdeaconry of Norfolk^
and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books ,a
£5. 3. If., endowed with £200 private benefaction, an$
£400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Hon.
J. Wodehouse. The church is dedicated to St..Andrew.
There is a place of worship for Particular Baptists. A
school is endowed with £5 per annum.