Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Hales like this:

HALES, a parish in Loddon district, Norfolk; 2½ miles SW by S of Loddon, and 4¾¾ NW of Beccles r. station. Post town, Loddon, under Norwich. Acres, 980. Real property, £1, 978. Pop., 315. Houses, 75. The property is divided among a few. Hales Hall is a chief residence. The living is a vicarage, united with Heckingham, in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £63. Patron, Sir W. B. Smyth, Bart. The church is Norman, with early English alterations; has a round tower; exhibits quaint and ela...


borate details; and is in good condition.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Hales by doing a full-text search here.


Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Hales within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller Section No. of Refs.
William Camden Norfolk and Cambridgeshire 1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Loddon 2 3
Stockton 0 2
Kirby Cane 0 2
Heckingham 0 2
Raveningham 0 2
Clavering 0 2
Ellingham 0 2
Hardley 0 2
Sisland 0 2
Geldeston 0 2
Norton Subcourse 0 3
Thwaite St Mary 0 2
Broome 0 2
Chedgrave 0 2
Gillingham 0 2
Mundham 0 2
Tofts Monks 0 3
Thurlton 0 2
Thorpe Next Haddiscoe 0 2
Thurton 0 2