STANFORD, a parish in the hundred of GRIMSHOE,
county of NORFOLK, 6 miles (S. W.) from Watton, containing
150 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage,
in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of
Norwich, rated in the king's books at £5. 13. 1.,
endowedwith £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the Bishop of Ely. The church, dedicated to All
Saints, is built of brick, now much decayed; it has a
tower of flint at the west end, is circular at the base,
and octangular above.