Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HARDWICK

HARDWICK, a hamlet in North Runcton parish, Norfolk; near the East Anglian railway, 1¼ mile SSE of Kings-Lynn. Pop., 23. A lepers' hospital was here before the time of Edward III. The hamlet was formerly a parish; and it still ranks as a rectory, annexed to the rectory of North Runcton, in the diocese of Norwich.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: North Runcton AP/CP       Norfolk AncC
Place: Hardwick

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