Description
Harpley, a village and a parish in Norfolk. The village stands on an eminence 5 miles NW from Rougham, and half a mile from Massingham station on the Midland &G.N. Joint railways, and has a post office under Swaffham; money order office, East Endham; telegraph office, Houghton. The parish comprises 2295 acres; population, 422. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £319 with residence. The church is ancient but good; has an embattled tower, and contains a carved screen, three sedilia, and a double piscina. There are Primitive Methodist and Methodist New Connexion chapels, and ahnshouses for eight poor persons.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
