Description
Lingwood, a parish, with a village, in Norfolk, 3 miles N of Buckenham, and 8 E of Norwich. It has a station on the Norwich and Yarmouth section of the G.E.R., and a post office under Norwich; money order and telegraph office, Bur-lingham. Acreage, 668; population of the civil parish, 421; of the ecclesiastical, with Burlingham St Edmund, 508. The manor belongs to the Burroughes family. The Blofield Union Workhouse is in this parish. The living is a vicarage, united with the rectory of Burlingham St Edmund, in the diocese of Norwich; joint net value, £270 with residence. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Later English style. There is also a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
