Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LIMPENHOE

LIMPENHOE, a parish, with a village, in Blofield district, Norfolk; near the Yarmouth railway and the river Yare, 2 miles WNW of Reedham r. station, and 11 ESE of Norwich. Post town, Reedham, under Norwich. Acres, 1,075. Real property, £1,918. Pop., 227. Houses, 48. The property is much subdivided. Hill House is the seat of R. Bullard, Esq. The living is a vicarage,annexed to the rectory of Southwood, in the diocese of Norwich. The church has an ivy-mantled tower, and is good. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel, and a national school.


(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: Limpenhoe CP/AP       Blofield RegD/PLU       Norfolk AncC
Place: Limpenhoe

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