Description
Burnham-Deepdale, a small village and a parish in Norfolk, on the coast, 2 1/2 miles NW by N of Burnham Market station on the G.E.R., and 7 1/2 W by N of Wells. Post town, King's Lynn; money order and telegraph office, Brancaster. Acreage of parish, 1048; population, 94. Part of the surface is naturally salt marsh, but has been reclaimed; the rest is diversified, the ground rising in parts to 200 feet above the sea. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £190 with residence. The church is Norman and of flint, with a round tower, has three memorial windows, and a Saxon font with rude sculptures emblematic of the months of the year.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
