Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WIVETON

WIVETON, a parish in Walsingham district, Norfolk; near the coast, 8¼ miles NE of Walsingham r. station. Post town, Holt, under Thetford. Acres, 1,042. Real property, £2,144. Pop., 232. Houses, 50. W. Hall is the seat of W. H. G. Buck, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £221.* Patron, B. B. Cabbell, Esq. The church is chiefly later English. Charities, about £500.


(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: Wiveton AP/CP       Walsingham RegD/PLU       Norfolk AncC
Place: Wiveton

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