Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Brettenham like this:

BRETTENHAM, a parish in Thetford district, Norfolk; on the Roman Peddar-way and the Little Ouse river, 1½ mile S of the Norfolk railway, and 3½ E of Thetford. Post Town, Thetford. Acres, 1,981. Real property, £884. Pop., 72. Houses, 11. The property is all in one estate, belonging to Sir W. B. Proctor, Bart. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £200. Patron, the Bishop of Ely. The ancient church was burnt in 1693; and is now an ivy-covered ruin. The present church is ...

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a small quadrangular structure, with square tower.

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