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MARKET TOWNS OF NORFOLK (from SDUK Penny Cyclopedia)

Snettisham in 1839

Snettisham is in Smithdon hundred, about 11 miles north by east of Lynn, not far from the Wash. The area of the parish is 5,580 acres, with a population, in 1831, of 926, nearly two-thirds agricultural. The market has been discontinued.

There are a church and a Methodist meeting-house. Several brass ‘celts,’ ancient instruments of disputed origin and use, have been dug up in this neighbourhood. The living is a rectory, of the clear yearly value of £110, with a glebe-house.

There were, in 1833, one endowed school with 35 children ; a school, partly supported by charity, for 47 girls ; five other day-schools, with 81 children ; one boarding-school, with 28 children ; and two Sunday-schools, with 73 children.