Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FIELD-DALLING

FIELD-DALLING, a parish in Walsingham district, Norfolk; 5 miles ENE of Walsingham town and r. station. Post town, Bingham, under Wells, Norfolk. Acres, 1, 619. Real property, £3, 028. Pop., 342. Houses, 84. The property is much subdivided. An alien priory, a cell to Savigny, was founded here, in the time of Henry II., by Mande de Harscoyle; was given to Chartreuse, in Coventry; and passed to the Dean and Chapter of Norwich. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £137. Patron, R. K. Cobbold, Esq. The church is good. There is a poor's estate of 27 acres.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Field Dalling AP/CP       Walsingham RegD/PLU       Norfolk AncC
Place: Field Dalling

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