Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Wayland

Wayland, hundred, Norfolk, 33,14!) ac., pop. 7217; contains 16 pars. Wayland Wood, near Watton sta., is the scene of the ballad, "The Children in the Wood".


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

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Feature Description: "hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions")
Administrative units: Norfolk AncC
Place: Wayland

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