Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HOLME-NEXT-THE-SEA

HOLME-NEXT-THE-SEA, a village and a parish in Docking district, Norfolk. The village stands on the coast, 2½ miles NE of Hunstanton r. station, and 8¼ W by N of Burnham-Westgate; and has a post office, of the name of Holme, under Lynn. The parish comprises 1, 647 acres of land and 865 of water. Real property, £2, 422. Pop., 305. Houses, 61. There are five manors; three of which belong to H. S. Le Strange, Esq., and two to A. Blyth, Esq. The Peddar way ran hence to Castle-Rising. Some fragments of Roman pottery were found in 1861. A reach of the coast bears the name of Holme-Scalp, and is on the E side of the entrance of the Wash. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Thornham, in the diocese of Norwich. The church was rebuilt in 1778; has a fine lofty steeple of the time of Henry IV.; and contains a brass of Judge Nottingham, by whom the steeple was built. Charities, £14.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Holme Next the Sea CP/AP       Docking RegD/PLU       Norfolk AncC
Place: Holme Next the Sea

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