NEWTON FLOTMAN is a village and parish, 1½ miles north-east from Flordon station on the Ipswich and Norwich section of the Great Eastern railway and 7 miles south from Norwich, in the Southern division of the county, Humbleyard hundred, Swainsthorpe petty sessional division, Henstead union, Norwich county court district, rural deanery of Humblevard, archdeaconry of Norfolk and diocese of Norwich. The church of St. Mary the Virgin is a structure of flint and stone, dating from 1300 to 1500, and consists of chancel, nave, south porch and a fine embattled western tower, containing one bell: there is a brass of the Blonderville family with dates from 1490 to 1638: the church affords 120 sittings. The register dates from the year 1557. The living is a rectory, annexed to that of Swainsthorpe, average tithe rent-charge £460, joint net yearly value £435, including 68 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of and held since 1884 by the Rev. Ernest Henry Kellett Long M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford. The charities amount to £9 yearly. Fortescue Walter Kellett Long esq. B.A. of Dunston Hall, who is lord of the manor, Robert Fellowes esq. D.L., J.P. of Shotesham Park and Major Sir Charles Harvey bart. J.P. of Rainthorpe Hall are the principal landowners. The soil is sand and clay; subsoil, mixed. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and turnips. The area is 1,173 acres; rateable value, £1,966; the population in 1891 was 246. (Kelly's Directory of Cambs, Norfolk & Suffolk, 1892. [Part 2: Norfolk])
