Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WHISSONSETT

WHISSONSETT, a parish, with a village, in Mitford district, Norfolk; 3½ miles SW of Ryburgh r. station, and 4¼ S of Fakenham. It has a post-office under Swaffham, and a fair on Whit-Wednesday. Acres, 1,344. Real property, £3,126. Pop., 692. Houses, 156. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory, united with Horningtoft, in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £714.* Patron, the Rev. E.Kemp. The church was recently much improved: and a new national school was built in 1869.


(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: Whissonsett CP/AP       Mitford and Launditch RegD/PLU       Norfolk AncC
Place: Whissonsett

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