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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Letton like this:
LETTON, a parish in Mitford district, Norfolk; at the source of the river Blackwater, 4 miles W of Thuxton r. station, and 5 SSW of East Dereham. Post town, Shiphdam, under Thetford. Acres, 1,274. Real property, £1,907. Pop. in 1851,150; in 1861,111. Houses, 24. The property, with Letton Hall, belongs to B. Gurdon, Esq. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Cranworth, in the diocese of Norwich. There is no church.
Letton is now part of BRECKLAND District. Click here for graphs and data of how BRECKLAND has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Letton itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Letton, in Breckland and Norfolk | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/4733
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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