Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Roydon like this:

ROYDON, a parish, with a village, in Guiltcross district, Norfolk; on the river Waveney, 2 miles W of Diss r. station. It has a post-office under Diss. Acres, 1, 329. Real property, £2, 904. Pop., 607. Houses, 123. The property is much subdivided. The manor of Roydon-Tufts belongs to Mr. S. Brook; and that of Gissinghall, with Roydon Hall, belongs to G. E. Frere, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £385.* Patron, the Right Hon J. H. Frere. The church was recently rebuilt. The...

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re are a free school, and charities £57.

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