PICKENHAM (North), a parish, with a village, in Swaffham district, Norfolk; on the river Wissey, 3¾ miles S E of Swaffham r. station. Post-town, Swaffham. Acres, 1, 590. Real property, £1, 920. Pop., 287. Houses, 69. The property is divided among a few. There are two barrows. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Houghton-on-the-Hill, in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £482. Patron, E. Farrer, Esq. The church, excepting the tower, was rebuilt in 1864. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel, and charities £20.

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