Barton Bendish, Norfolk

Description
Barton-Bendish a village and a parish in Norfolk. The village stands 5 miles N of Stoke Ferry station on the G.E.R., and 7 1/2 ENE of Downham, and has a post office under Stoke Ferry, which is the telegraph office, money order office, Fincham. It took its distinctive name from a dyke, called Bendish, which the Saxons erected to mark the boundary of the hundred. Bendish is probably from Fendysclie, equal to Fendyke. The dyke is called the devil's dyke. The parish includes also the hamlet of Eastmore. Acreage, 4123 ; population, 399. Barton-Bendish Hall, anciently the seat of the Berney family, stands in this parish. It was restored and some new work added in 1856. The living consists of the rectory of St Mary-with-All-Saints, and the rectory of St Andrew, and is in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £260. The Church of St Mary-with-All-Saints is good, and that of St Andrew has a fine screen, with hagiological figures, and was repaired in 1859. There are a Wesleyan chapel and some small charities.