HOPTON, a village and a parish in the district of Thetford, and county of Suffolk. The village stands near the Little Ouse river and the boundary with Norfolk, 6 miles S by E of Harling Road r. station, and 9 ESE of Thetford; and has a post office under Thetford. -The parish comprises 1, 373 acres. Real property, £2, 609. Pop., 643. Houses, 144. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to Thomas Thornhill, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £284.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church has an embattled tower, and was thoroughly repaired in 1830. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £25.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))