Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BESSINGHAM, or Bassingham

BESSINGHAM, or Bassingham, a parish in Erpingham district, Norfolk; 4½ miles SW of Cromer, and 15 east of Walsingham r. station. Post Town, Cromer, under Norwich. Acres, 514. Real property, £856. Pop., 153. Houses, 34. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £131. Patron, F. E. Arden, Esq. The church has a round tower, but is bad. The moat-yard, near it, is a fosse-girt tumulus of about ½ an acre.


(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: Bessingham AP/CP       Erpingham RegD/PLU       Norfolk AncC
Place names: BASSINGHAM     |     BESSINGHAM     |     BESSINGHAM OR BASSINGHAM
Place: Bessingham

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