BAWDESWELL, a parish and a subdistrict in the district of Mitford, Norfolk. The parish lies a little N of the Wensum river, 3 miles E by S of Elmham r. station, and 3½ W by S of Reepham; and has a post office under Thetford. Acres, 1,196. Real property, £2,740. Pop., 515. Houses, 127. The property is much sub-divided. Bawdeswell Hall is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £208 Patron, Rev. H. Lombe. The church is recent; and there are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, and an endowed school with £20.-The subdistrict comprises eight parishes. Pop., 3,333.

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