SAXTHORPE, a parish in the southern division
of the hundred of ERPINGHAM, county of NORFOLK, 5
miles (N.W. by W.) from Aylsham, containing 342 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich, rated in the
king's books at £4. 13. 4., endowed with £200 private
benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the Master and Fellows of Pembroke Hall,
Cambridge. The church is dedicated to St. Andrew.