SCOLE, otherwise OSMONDISTON, a parish in the
hundred of Diss, county of NORFOLK, 19 miles (S. S.W.)
from Norwich, containing 468 inhabitants. The living
is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk,
and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at
£9, and in the patronage of Sir E. Kerrison, Bart.
The church is dedicated to St. Andrew. The village is a
great thoroughfare on the high road from Ipswich to
Norwich and Yarmouth, and contains a very good inn,
built in the seventeenth century by a merchant of London,
at the expense of £1500.