Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BIXLEY

BIXLEY, a parish in Henstead district, Norfolk; near the Eastern Union railway, 3 miles SE by S of Norwich. Post Town, Norwich. Acres, 760. Real property, £1,814. Pop., 161. Houses, 31. The property is divided among a few. Bixley Hall is a handsome edifice, built, about the middle of last century, by Sir Edward Ward. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Earls-Framingham, in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £608. Patron, the Rev.D. Brereton. The church is ancient and good; contains monuments of the Wards; and formerly had an image of St. Wandegisilus, to which pilgrim ages were made.


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

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