Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GRIMSHOE

GRIMSHOE, a hundred in Norfolk; on the SW border of the county, contiguins to Suffolk and Cambridge. It contains Buckenham parish and sixteen other parishes. Acres, 68, 682. Pop., 7, 554. house, 1, 624.


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

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Feature Description: "a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions")
Administrative units: Norfolk AncC
Place: Grimshoe

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