Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BIRCHAM (Newton)

BIRCHAM (Newton), a parish in Docking district, Norfolk; 2 miles S of Docking, and 9½ W by N of Fakenham r. station. Post Town, Bircham, under Rougham. Acres, 1,128. Real property, £959. Pop., 118. Houses, 20. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Bircham-Tofts, in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £434.* Patron, the Marquis of Cholmondeley. The church is good.


(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: Bircham Newton CP/AP       Docking RegD/PLU       Norfolk AncC
Place names: BIRCHAM     |     BIRCHAM NEWTON     |     NEWTON BIRCHAM
Place: Bircham Newton

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