Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BOWTHORPE

BOWTHORPE, a parish in Forehoe district, Norfolk; on the river Yare, 3 ½ miles W of Norwich. Post Town, Colney, under Norwich. Acres, 645. Pop., 21. Houses, 4. The living is a donative, annexed to the vicarage of Earlham, in the diocese of Norwich. The church was desecrated in the 17th century.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Bowthorpe CP/AP       Forehoe RegD/PLU/Inc       Norfolk AncC
Place: Bowthorpe

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