Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DUNHAM (Little)

DUNHAM (Little), a parish in Mitford distrlct, Norfolk; on the East Anglian railway, at Dunham station, 4¼ miles ENE of Swaffham. It has a post office under Swaffham. Acres, 1,835. Real property, £3, 227. Pop., 327. Houses, 69. The property is divided among a few. Dunham Lodge is the seat of George Copeman, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norfolk. Value, £451.* Patron, the Rev. J. Nelson. The church was restored in 1862. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel, a national school, and charities £75.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Little Dunham AP/CP       Norfolk AncC
Place names: DUNHAM     |     DUNHAM LITTLE     |     LITTLE DUNHAM
Place: Little Dunham

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