Horstead with Stanninghall is a civil parish

Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation and, where they are found, the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties...

 in the English county of Norfolk

Norfolk

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, consisting of the former parishes of Horstead and Stanninghall.
It covers an area of 11.54 km² (4.5 sq mi) and had a population of 1007 in 435 households as of the 2001 census

United Kingdom Census 2001

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For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district

Non-metropolitan district

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 of Broadland

Broadland

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There is a history of the parish, written by Percy Millican, bearing the descriptive title 'The History of Horstead and Stanninghall'.

Horstead
Horstead (52°43′32"N 01°21′10"E) is today a large dormitory village of Norwich

Norwich

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Stanninghall
Stanninghall (52°42′29"N 01°20′12"E) contains an old farmhouse, on the site of a mediaeval manor house which acquired the somewhat hard to say title of 'Stanninghall Hall', the remains of a church tower and a number of council house

Council house

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s. In the inter-war years

Interwar period

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, it was an isolation settlement for people suffering from tuberculosis

Tuberculosis

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. Millican states that the church was allowed to fall down by the family at the Hall who were Roman Catholics.