HEMPSTEAD, a parish in the hundred of HAPPING,
county of NORFOLK, 8 miles (E. by S.) from
North Walsham, containing, with the parish of Eccles,
212 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, with
the rectories of Eccles and Lessingham, in the archdeaconry
of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in
the king's books at £9, 6. 8., and in the patronage of
the Provost and Fellows of King's College, Cambridge.
The church is dedicated to St. Andrew.