WEST-ACRE, a parish in the Lynn division of the
hundred of FREEBRIDGE, county of NORFOLK, 5
miles (N. W. by N.) from Swaffham, containing, with
the hamlet of Custhorpe, 362 inhabitants. The living
is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of Norwich, and in the patronage of P. Hamond, Esq.
The church is dedicated to All Saints. A priory of
Black canons, in honour of St. Mary and All Saints,
was founded here, in the time of William Rufus, by
Ralph de Toney, which at the dissolution had a revenue
of £308. 19. 11.: the remains of this once celebrated
house exhibit specimens of the early and later styles of
English architecture.