Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BALE, or Bathley

BALE, or Bathley, a parish in Walsingham district, Norfolk; 4½ miles E by N of Walsingham r. station. Post Town, Holt under Thetford. Acres, 1,041. Real property, £1,850. Pop., 227. Houses, 50. The property is not much divided. The living is a rectory, an nexed to the rectory of Gunthorpe, in the diocese of Norwich. The church was restored in 1864. Charities, £15.


(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: Bale AP/CP       Walsingham RegD/PLU       Norfolk AncC
Place names: BALE     |     BALE OR BATHLEY     |     BATHLEY
Place: Bale

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