Description
Babingley, or Baburghley, a parish in Norfolk, on a rivulet of its own name, near Lynn-Deeps, 1 1/2 mile S of Wolferton station on the Lynn and Hunstanton branch of the G.E.R. Its post town is Castle-Rising, under Lynn; money order and telegraph office, Dersingham. Acreage, 849; population, 89. The first Christian church in East Anglia was erected here, and several hills in the neighbourhood are called Christian Hills. The living is a rectory, annexed to that of Sandringham, in the diocese of Norwich. The church has a nave and tower, and a very interesting ruined chancel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
