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Belton in Kellys 1879 Directory. Belton is a parish and village in a valley on the banks of the
navigable Waveney, with a station on the East Suffolk railway, 4½ miles south
west from Yarmouth and 8 north west from Lowestoft, in the eastern division of
the county, Mutford and
Lothingland Hundred.
The church of All Saints is an old building. The register dates from 1560, which
records the plague that raged here in 1665; this disease must have spread from
Yarmouth, where in the previous year, 2,500 persons fell victim, including both
ministers of the Yarmouth church.
Browston is a hamlet 1 mile south east.
Parish Clerk, Robert Pole.
Post Office, Robert Morris.
National School, built in 1860, Miss Frances B Hemming, mistress.
Railway Station, John Reeve, station master.
Adams Rev Benjamin BA [curate]
Brightwen Mrs
Brown Miss, Browston Hall
Harvey Mrs, Elm Grove
Howes Rev Thomas George Francis MA, Rectory
Hubbard Thomas