HELLESDON, a parish partly within the city of NORWICH, and partly in the hundred of TAVERHAM, county of NORFOLK, 2 miles (N.W. by w.) from Norwich, containing 293 inhabitants. The living is a rectory with that of Drayton, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £ 12 The church is dedicated to St. Mary.