Description
Boughton, a village and a parish in Norfolk, 1 1/2 mile N of Stoke-Ferry, and 7 E by S of Downham stations on tho G.E.R. Post town, Stoke-Ferry, which is also the money order and telegraph office. Acreage of parish, 1353 ; population, 211. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich ; net value, £270 with residence. The church, rebuilt in 1872 with the exception of the tower, is a building of stone in the Early English and Decorated styles. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
