Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HARDINGHAM

HARDINGHAM, a parish in Mitford district, Norfolk; on the Dereham Junction of the Great Eastern railway, 5½ miles NW of Wymondham. It has a station on the railway; and its post town is Hingham, under Attleborough. Acres, 2, 415. Real property, £4, 922. Pop., 527. Houses, 122. The manor of Hardingham and Flockthorpe belongs to Lord Wadehouse. Hardingham Hall is the chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £770. * Patron, Clare College, Cambridge. The church is early English, and in excellent repair; and there are charities £12. Sir Thomas Gresham was a native.


(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: Hardingham CP/AP       Mitford and Launditch RegD/PLU       Norfolk AncC
Place: Hardingham

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