Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SAXTHORPE

SAXTHORPE, a parish, with a village, in Aylsham district, Norfolk; on the river Bure, 5¼ miles N W of Aylsham, and 11 E by N of Ryburgh r. station. Post-town, Reepham, under Norwich. Acres, 2, 113. Real property, £2, 572. Pop., 328. Houses, 70. The manor belongs to the Earl of Orford. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £139.* Patron, Pembroke College, Cambridge. The church is good.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Saxthorpe CP/AP       Aylsham RegD/PLU       Norfolk AncC
Place: Saxthorpe

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