COLTON, a parish in the hundred of FOREHOE,
county of NORFOLK, 5 miles (N.) from Wymondham,
containing 267 inhabitants. The living Is a discharged
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of
Norwich, rated in the king's books at £6. 9. 9., endowed
with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of the Crown. The
church is dedicated to St. Andrew. The Rev. Henry
Rix, in 1726, bequeathed certain land in trust for the
endowment of a school and other charitable purposes,
the annual income of which, with a subsequent gift
by an unknown benefactor for teaching six children,
amounts to £ 12. 7.