Place:Stockton, Norfolk, England

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Stockton is a small village and civil parish in Norfolk, England near the A146, just over 2 miles from Beccles. It covers an area of 3.65 km2 (1.41 sq mi) and had a population of 59 in 25 households at the 2001 UK census.

Its church, St Michael, is one of 124 existing round-tower churches in Norfolk.

(NOTE: Wikipedia does not give the census population for 2011. Usually, if a parish had less than 100 inhabitants in 2011, its population is combined with that of a neighbouring parish. There is no note to this effect in the Stockton article. Stockton's neighbouring parishes are Raveningham, Gillingham, Geldeston, Ellingham and Kirby Cane.)

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Stockton from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales:

"STOCKTON, a parish in Loddon [registration] district, Norfolk; 3½ miles NW of Beccles [railway] station. Post town, Bungay. Acres: 1,051. Real property: £1,714. Population: 129. Houses: 27. The manor is held, under the Crown, by J. Kerrick, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £280. Patron: Mrs. Carlos. The church is good. There is a town estate £65."

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