ACLE, a village and a parish in Blofield district, Norfolk. The village stands near the river Bure, 4 miles N of Brundall r. station, and 11 E of Norwich. It has a post office‡ under Norwich, and was formerly a market town, end a fair is held at it on Midsummer day. The parish lies chiefly around the village, but part of it is at some distance, in the Marshes. Acres, 3,209. Real property, £8,417. Pop., 926. Houses, 197. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £605.* Patron, Lord Calthorpe. The church is old. A Wesleyan chapel was built in 1867. There is a national school. an Augustinian priory anciently stood at Acle-Dam.

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