Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PORINGLAND (Great or East)

PORINGLAND (Great or East), a parish, with a village, in Henstead district, Norfolk; 3½ miles E of Swainsthorpe r. station, and 5½ S S E of Norwich. Post-town, Framingham-Earl, under Norwich. Acres, with Little Poringland, 1, 740. Real property, with L. P., £3, 237 Pop. of G. P. alone, 464. Houses, 110. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to the Earl of Rosebery. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £250.* Patron, H. Birkbeck, Esq. The church is old but good, and has around tower with octagonal top. Charities, £58.


(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: Poringland CP/AP       Henstead RegD/PLU       Norfolk AncC
Place names: EAST PORINGLAND     |     GREAT PORINGLAND     |     PORINGLAND     |     PORINGLAND EAST     |     PORINGLAND GREAT     |     PORINGLAND GREAT OR EAST
Place: Poringland

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