Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BARNINGHAM-TOWN, or B.Winter, or B.Magna, or B. Great

BARNINGHAM-TOWN, or B.Winter, or B.Magna, or B. Great, a parish in Erpingham district, Norfolk; 5 miles SE of Holt, and 15 ENE of Ryburgh r. station. Post Town, Holt, under Thetford. Acres, 833. Real property, £1,036. Pop., 125. Houses, 23. The property is divided among a few. Barningham Hall, a fine Tudor mansion, is the seat of J. T. Mott, Esq. A market and a fair were formerly held in the parish, under grant of Edward II. to Roger le Curzam. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £135.* Patron, J. T. Mott, Esq. The church is partly a ruin.


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

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Place: Barningham Winter

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