A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
ROUGHAM, a parish, with a village, in Mitford district, Norfolk; 2 miles E of the Peddar-way, and 7½ N by E of Swaffham r. station. It has a post-office‡ under Brandon. Acres, 2, 627. Real property, £3, 488. Pop., 409. Houses, 85. The manor, with R. Hall, belongs to F. W. North, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £255.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church has, over the W door, an oldcarving of the crucifixion, and contains brasses and monuments of the Norths and the Yelvertons. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, and a national school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish, with a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Rougham CP/AP Mitford and Launditch RegD/PLU Norfolk AncC |
| Place: | Rougham |
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