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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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MATTISHALL, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Mitford district, Norfolk. The village stands 3½ miles E of Yaxham r. station, and 4½ ESE of East Dereham; and has a post. office under Dereham, and a fair on the Tuesday before Holy Thursday. The parish comprises 2,280 acres. Real property, £6,220. Pop., 971. Houses, 222. The property is much subdivided. The chief landowners are W. B. Donne, Esq. and the Rev. J. Sparke. The living is a vicarage, united with the rectory of Pattesley, in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £469.* Patron, Cains College, Cambridge. The church is later English; consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with N and S porches, and with embattled tower; and was restored in 1858. There are chapels for Independents and Primitive Methodists.—The sub-district contains also nine other parishes. Acres, 16,664. Pop., 4,340. Houses, 941.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a parish, and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Mattishall AP/CP Mattishall SubD Mitford and Launditch RegD/PLU Norfolk AncC |
| Place: | Mattishall |
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