Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WARHAM (All Saints and St. Mary)

WARHAM (All Saints and St. Mary), two parishes in Walsingham district, Norfolk; 2 and 2½ miles SSE of Wells r. station. Post town, Wells, Norfolk. Acres, 1,774 and 3,066; of which 600 and 1,010 are water. Real property, £2,995. Pop., 318 and 74. Houses, 69 and 13. The manors belong to the Earl of Leicester. There is a Danish camp of 9 acres. The livings are conjoint rectories in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £600.* Patron, the Earl of Leicester. A. S. church is good; but St. M.'s is extinct. There is a national school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "two parishes"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Walsingham RegD/PLU       Norfolk AncC
Place: Warham

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