BURNHAM-THORPE, a parish in Docking district, Norfolk; on the rivulet Burn, 1½ mile E of BurnhamWestgate r. station, and 4½ W by S of Wells. It formerly had a weekly market and a fair. Its Post Town is Burnham, under Lynn. Acres, 2,328. Real property, £3,409. Pop., 427. Houses, 85. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged anciently to the Calthorpes. Bricks and tiles are made. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £475.* Patron, the Earl of Orford. The church is later English; and contains a canopied brass of Sir W. Calthorpe, and a monument of Viscount Nelson's father, who was rector. Viscount Nelson was born in the parsonage; and took from the place the title of Baron. There are an Independent chapel and a free school; and the latter has £44 from endowment.

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