Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SHERNBORNE

SHERNBORNE, a parish in Docking district, Norfolk; 3 miles E of Snettisham r. station, and 11 NE by N of Lynn. Post town, Snettisham, under Lynn. Acres, 1,300. Real property, £1,207. Pop., 144. Houses, 25. The manor belongs to Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The Shernborne family were seated here about 700 years. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £120.* Patron, the Bishop of N. The church is ancient.


(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: Shernborne CP/AP       Docking RegD/PLU       Norfolk AncC
Place: Shernborne

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