Northwold
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Northwold is a parish and village in Norfolk County, England, 4.8 km southeast of the closed Stoke Ferry station of the Great Eastern Railway, 12 km north of Brandon, and 153 km from London, on the road from Thetford to King's Lynn and on the river Wissey, in the Western division of the county, Grimshoe hundred, Thetford union and county court district, Cranwich rural deanery, Norfolk archdeaconry and Norwich diocese.
The church of St. Andrew is a building in the Perpendicular and Early English styles, having chancel, nave and aisles, and tower built in the fourteenth century, containing 8 bells a modern clock: the tower and church are built principally of flint, and the tower has various devices inlaid in this material, and its top is ornamented with eight pinnacles: the roof of the nave is of oak, painted and richly gilt and ornamented with angels with extended wings. The register dates from the year 1650. The living is a rectory, tithe rent-charge £896, with 66 acres of glebe and house, in the gift of the Bishop of Norwich and held since 1880 by the Rev. William Cowper Johnson M.A. of Caius College, Cambridge, hon. canon of Norwich. There is a large and handsome Wesleyan chapel, and one for Primitive Methodists.
