Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MUNDSLEY, or Mundesley

MUNDSLEY, or Mundesley, a village and a parish in Erpingham district, Norfolk. The village stands on the coast, 5 miles N N E of North Walsham, and 19½ N N W of Norwich r. station; is a pleasant place. with a fine sea-view; ranks as a kind of sub-port, where vessels load and unload on the beach; is much frequented as a watering-place; has a post-office under Norwich, a goodinn, good lodging-houses, bathing-machines, and a coast-guard station; and carries on some fishing. The parish comprises 574 acres of land, and 100 of water. Real property, £1, 979. Pop., 437. Houses, 106. The property is not much divided. The sea makes continualencroachments. A terrace built at the village, 90 feetabove the beach, was broken down by the tide in Feb.1836; was rebuilt in the same year; was again broken down in 1863; and has not been rebuilt. A deep ravinepierces lofty broken cliffs to the coast at the village; and is traversed by a rivulet called the Mun, which gives name to the parish. Bones of elephants and other inter-tropical animals have been found. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £170. Patron, the Duchy of Lancaster. The church stands on a cliff; has lost its tower and its chancel; and is available for use in only a part of the nave. There are a dissentingchapel and a church school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Mundesley AP/CP       Erpingham RegD/PLU       Norfolk AncC
Place names: MUNDESLEY     |     MUNDSLEY     |     MUNDSLEY OR MUNDESLEY
Place: Mundesley

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