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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Dunston like this:
DUNSTON, a parish in Henstead district, Norfolk; on the river Yare and the Eastern Counties railway, near Swainsthorpe r. station, 4 miles S of Norwich. Post town, Norwich. Acres, 616. Real property, £96. Pop., 83. Houses, 16. The property is divided between two. Dunston Hall is the seat of R. K. Long, Esq The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £30. Patron, R. K. Long, Esq. The church is good.
Dunston is now part of SOUTH NORFOLK District. Click here for graphs and data of how SOUTH NORFOLK has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Dunston itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Dunston, in South Norfolk and Norfolk | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2640
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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