WALPOLE (ST-ANDREW), a parish in the Marshland
division of the hundred of FREEBRIDGE, county of
NORFOLK, 8 miles (wbyS.) from Lynn-Regis, containing
360 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage,
in the archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich,
rated in the king's books at £26. 13. 4., and in the patronage
of T. Hankinson, Esq. The church is a regular
well-built structure, entirely covered with lead. Waipole
derives its name from the great wall raised by the
Romans to defend it from the encroachments of the sea,
and from an extensive pool of water near it. In a garden
at the foot of this embankment, many Roman bricks,
and the remains of an aqueduct, formed of earthen pipes,
twenty-six in number, have been found. The sestuary,
called Cross Keys Wash, in the neighbourhood, may be
passed on foot, at the reflux of the tides, to Long
Sutton, in Lincolnshire.