Description
Honing, a village and a parish in Norfolk, with a station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway, on the Ant navigation, 2 1/2 miles from Worstead station on the G.E.R., 4 SE from N Walsham, and 15 NNE from Norwich. There is a post office under Norwich; money order and telegraph office, Worstead. Acreage of the civil parish, 1409; population, 299; of the ecclesiastical parish, with Dilham, 677. The manor, with Honing Hall, belongs to the Cnbitt family. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Dilham, in the diocese of Norwich; joint net yearly value, £220 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Norwich. There is a small Primitive Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
