Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BILNEY (West)

BILNEY (West), a parish in Freebridge-Lynn district, Norfolk; on the Lynn and Dereham railway, at Bilney station, 7 miles ESE of Kings-Lynn. Post Town, East Winch, under Lynn. Acres, 2,750. Real property, £2,439. Pop., 253. Houses, 50. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £60. Patron, J. Dalton, Esq. The church is ancient. Charities, £.6 and a fuel allotment.


(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: West Bilney CP/AP       Freebridge Lynn RegD/PLU       Norfolk AncC
Place names: BILNEY     |     BILNEY WEST     |     WEST BILNEY
Place: West Bilney

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