NEWTON-FLOTMAN, a parish in the hundred of
HUMBLEYARD, county of NORFOLK, 3 miles (N.byE.)
from St. Mary Stratton, containing 390 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory in medieties, in the archdeaconry
of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the
king's books at £10. Miss Long was patroness in
1790. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, contains
memorials of several of the Blundeville family, and an
arched monument with a representation of Noah's Ark.
This place received the adjunct to its name from the ancient
flote, or ferry, over the river Taus, which is now
passed by a bridge of brick.