WINFARTHING, a parish, with a village, in Guilt-cross district, Norfolk; 3 miles NW of Burston r. station, and 4 NNW of Diss. It has a post-office under Diss, and a fair on 25 June. Acres, 2,620. Real property, £5,080. Pop., 615. Houses, 146. The property is much subdivided. The manor belonged once to the Crown; went, in the time of Henry III., to Sir W. Munchesny; and belongs now to the Earl of Albemarle. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £580. Patron, the Earl of Albemarle. The church is old. There are two Methodist chapels, and charities £124.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))