NORTHWOLD, a parish in the hundred of GRIMSHOE,
county of NORFOLK, 4 miles (S.B.byE.) from
Stoke-Ferry, containing 981 inhabitants. The living is
a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese
of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £29. 14. 9.,
and in the patronage of the Bishop of Ely. The church,
built in the reign of Edward IV., and dedicated to St!
Andrew, has a stately quadrangular tower of flint, embattled
and quoined with freestone, and crowned with
eight richly-carved pinnacles. The river Wissy runs
through the parish. Bridget Holder, in 1736, gave certain
land, and John Carter, in 1782, bequeathed £200,
the income to be applied for teaching sixteen children.