Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ORMSBY-ST. MARGARET, or Great Ormsby

ORMSBY-ST. MARGARET, or Great Ormsby, a village and a parish in Flegg district, Norfolk. The village stands about a mile from the sea, and 4¾ miles N by W of Yarmouth r. station; and has a post-office, of the name of Ormsby, under Great Yarmouth. The parish, together with Ormsby, St. Michael and Scratby, comprises 2, 761 acres; of which 75, in Ormsby, St. Michael, are fore-shore. Real property of O., St. Margaret and O., St. Michael, £6, 214. Pop. of O., St. Margaret alone, 777. Houses, 169. The property is subdivided. Ormsby House is the seat of Sir. E. H. K. Lacon, Bart.; and is a handsomemansion, in the pointed style, amid well-wooded grounds. An old mansion, formerly the seat of the Cleres, is nowa farm-house. The living is a vicarage, united with thevicarages of Ormsby, St. Michael and Scratby, in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £420. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Norwich. The church is ancient; has a finetower, surmounted by four figures of monks in lieu ofpinnacles; and contains brasses and monuments of the Cleres, the Symondses, and the Earl of Home. There are chapels for Baptists, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists, a national school, and charities £60. Twochurches, dedicated to the Holy Trinity and to St. Peter, formerly stood between the two Ormsbys, but are nowextinct.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: East and West Flegg RegD/PLU/Inc       Norfolk AncC
Place names: GREAT ORMSBY     |     ORMSBY     |     ORMSBY ST MARGARET     |     ORMSBY ST MARGARET OR GREAT ORMSBY
Place: Ormesby St Margaret

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