Description
Carleton-Forehoe, a parish in Norfolk, on the river Yare, 2 miles NE of Kimberley station on the G.E.R., and 3 1/2 N by W of Wymondham, which is the post town and telegraph office; money order office, Barnham Broom. Acreage, 734; population of the civil parish, 130; of the ecclesiastical, 237. The living is a rectory, with Crownthorpe annexed, in the diocese of Norwich; value, £129 with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Kimberley. The church is a small building of stone in the Perpendicular style, with a square tower, and was repaired in 1839, and reseated in 1876.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
