Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WINCH (East)

WINCH (East), a parish, with a village, in Freebridge-Lynn district, Norfolk; on the East Anglian railway, 5 miles SE by E of Lynn. It has a post-office under Lynn, and a r. station. Acres, 2,530. Real property, £3,851. Pop., 434. Houses, 89. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £183.* Patron, the Rev. G. Kent. The church is later English. There are a national school, and charities £20.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: East Winch CP/AP       Freebridge Lynn RegD/PLU       Norfolk AncC
Place names: EAST WINCH     |     WINCH     |     WINCH EAST
Place: East Winch

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