BEESTON (ST-LAWRENCE), a parish in the hundred of TUNSTEAD, county of NORFOLK, 4 miies (E. by N.) from Coltishall, containing 54 inhabitants The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich, rated in the. king's books at £6, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of J. Preston, Esq. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.