Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GUNTHORPE

GUNTHORPE, a parish in Walsingham district. Norfolk. 5½ miles SW of Holt, and 6½ ESE of Walsingham r. station. Post town, Brinningham, under Thetford. Acres, 1, 087. Real property, £2, 213. Pop., 249. Houses, 62. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Bale, in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £534. Patron, the Rev. J. H. Sparke. The church has an embattled tower, and is good.


(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: Gunthorpe AP/CP       Norfolk AncC
Place: Gunthorpe

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