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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
GRIMSTONE, a village and a parish in FreebridgeLynn district, Norfolk. The village stands 4½ miles N by E of East Winch r. station, and 7 ENE of KingsLynn; is nearly a mile long; and has a post office under Lynn. The parish comprises 4, 240 acres. Real property, £4, 700. Pop., 1, 300. house, 270. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £650.* Patron, Queen's College, Cambridge. The church has a lofty tower, and is good. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, a free school for boys, a school for girls, a charity of £95 a year for the free school and for repairing the church, and lands worth £40 a year for parochial purposes.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Grimston AP/CP Norfolk AncC |
| Place: | Grimston |
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