Description
Barnham-Broom, a parish in Norfolk, on the river Yare, 2 1/2 miles from Kimberley station on the G.E.R., and 5 NNW of Wymondham. It has a post and money order office; telegraph office, Mattishall. Acreage, 1788; population of the civil parish, 412; of the ecclesiastical, 591. The manor belongs to the Earl of Kimberley. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Bixton and the vicarage of Kimberley, in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £579 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Kimberley. The church is a neat structure, with an embattled tower, and has a fine screen.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
