It is bounded by Heartsease to the east, Mousehold Heath and the suburb of New Sprowston to the south, Old Catton to the west, and by the open farmland of Beeston St Andrew to the north.

He died without an heir and the manor of Sprowston was sold to Sir Thomas Adams, who had been Lord Mayor of London in 1645.

He had given Charles II £10,000 whilst he was in exile and, in 1660, he accompanied General Monck to escort the King back to England.

Adams endowed a Professorship of Arabic at Cambridge and had the Gospels printed in Persian, which he described as "throwing a stone at the head of Mahomet".

In the 18th century, the manor was sold to Sir Lambert Blackwell, a governor of the South Sea Company and he was created a baronet in 1718.

In 1885, he gave money for the building of St Cuthbert's Church[4] and a new vicarage to serve the development known as New Sprowston which was being built.

Sprowston Mill was built in 1780 and made famous by John Crome, of the Norwich School of painting.

It burnt down in 1933, a few days before it was to be handed over to the Norfolk Archaeological Trust, but is still used as a symbol by Sprowston Community High School and is depicted on the village sign.