Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Mancroft like this:

MANCROFT, a parish and a sub-district in Norwich district, Norfolk. The parish is in Norwich city, and bears the name of Mancroft-St. Peter. Real property, £22,615. Pop. in 1 851,2,992; in 1861,2,575. Houses, 520. The decrease of pop. arose partly from a progress of repair in the fish-market and adjoining houses, and partly from shopkeepers taking residences elsewhere than at their places of business. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £87. Patrons, the Parishioners. -The sub-d...

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istrict contains also the parishes of St. Giles, St. Stephen, Eaton-St. Andrew, and Lakenham, and the liberty of Town Close. Pop., 14,39 7. Houses, 3,230. See NORWICH.

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