Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DUNSTON

DUNSTON, a parish in Henstead district, Norfolk; on the river Yare and the Eastern Counties railway, near Swainsthorpe r. station, 4 miles S of Norwich. Post town, Norwich. Acres, 616. Real property, £96. Pop., 83. Houses, 16. The property is divided between two. Dunston Hall is the seat of R. K. Long, Esq The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £30. Patron, R. K. Long, Esq. The church is good.


(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: Dunston AP/CP       Henstead RegD/PLU       Norfolk AncC
Place: Dunston

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