FRITTON, a parish in Mutford district, Suffolk; on the river Waveney, and on the East Suffolk railway, at the boundary with Norfolk, adjacent to the Lowestoft railway, in the neighbourhood of Haddiscoe r. station, 7 miles NW by N of Lowestoft. It has a post office under Lowestoft. Acres, 1, 562. Real property, £1, 864. Pop., 209. Houses, 42. Fritton Hall is a chief residence. There is a decoy near the Waveney. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £249. Patron, the Rev. F. W. Cubitt. The church is chiefly Norman; has an apsidal chancel, and a Norman circular tower; and contains parts of an ancient screen. Charities, £13.

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