SHARRINGTON, a parish, with a village, in Walsingham district, Norfolk; 3¾ miles W S W of Holt, and 7 E by N of Walsingham r. station. Post-town, Holt, under Thetford. Acres, 863. Real property, £1, 61 6. Pop., 257. Houses, 58. The manor belongs to the Rev. Sir E. R. Jodrell, Bart. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £300.* Patron, the Rev. Sir E. R. Jodrell, Bart. The church is early English, and good. There is a national school.

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