Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Rainham, East (or St Mary)

Rainham, East (or St Mary), par. (ry. sta. Raynham Park), Norfolk, on river Wensum, 3½ miles SW. of Fakenham, 1635 ac., pop. 145; Rainham Hall (1632), seat of the Marquis of Townshend, is noted for its collection of portraits.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Norfolk AncC
Place: East Raynham

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