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A vision of Britain through time
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GRESSENHALL, a village and a parish in Mitford district, Norfolk. The village stands gear a branch of the river Wensum, and gear the Lynn and Dereham railway, 2½ miles NW of East Dereham; and has a postoffice under Dereham, and a fair on 6 Dec. The parish comprises 2, 541 acres. Real property, £5, 279. Pop. in 1851, 1, 141; in 1861, 991. Houses, 153. The property is divided among a few. Gressenhall House is a chief residence. A collegiate chapel was founded here, in the time of Henry III., by William de Stuteville; and a house of industry, now the workhouse for Mitford district, was built on the site of that chapel, in 1777, at a cost of £16, 243. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £750. * Patron, King's college, Cambridge. The church is cruciform and excellent; had formerly a spire; and contains monuments of the L. Estranges, the Veseys, and others. There are a gational school, and charities £16.
(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: | Gressenhall CP/AP Mitford and Launditch RegD/PLU Norfolk AncC |
| Place: | Gressenhall |
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