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DERSINGHAM, a parish in Docking district, Norfolk; on the Lynn and Hunstanton railway, 4 miles NNE of Castle-Rising. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Lynn. Acres, 3, 472. Real property, £3, 985. Pop., 822. Houses, 166. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £132. Patron, the Marquis of Cholmondeley. The church is of flint. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel, and charities £23, with a fuel allotment.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Dersingham Parish Docking Poor Law Union/Registration District Norfolk Ancient County |
| Place: | Dersingham |
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