STRATTON-ST-MARY (LONG), a parish in the
hundred of DEPWADE, county of NORFOLK, 10 miles
(S. by W.) from Norwich, containing636 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, annexed to that of St. Clement's, Norwich,
in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of
Norwich, rated in the king's books at £ 10, and in the
patronage of the Master and Fellows of Caius College,
Cambridge. The church, in old records, is called Stratton
cum turri, whence it appears that the other two
Strattons had churches without steeples; it contains
a handsome monument to Judge Reve and his lady.
There is a place of worship for Independents. The
Roman road leading to Ad Tuam, or Tasburgh, passes
through the parish. A fair was granted by King John
to Roger de Stratton, in 1207, but it is now disused.
Here was anciently a hermitage, with an oratory attached.
Several Roman urns, one. of them curiously
ornamented, were found, in 1773, on opening a gravel
pit, near which a sepulchral hearth has since been
discovered, with a mixture of ashes and burnt earth
upon it.