Description
Massingham, Little, a village and a parish in Norfolk. The village stands near the Peddar Way, 10 miles N from Swaffham, and 12 NE from Lynn, and has a station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway. It has a post office under Swaffham; money order office, Great Massingham; telegraph office, Houghton. The parish comprises. 2289 acres; population, 180. The manor and most of the land belong to the Brocklehurst family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £452 with residence. The church is a building of stone in the Early English style, consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with porch and tower, and contains a monument of 1648 to Sir C. Mourdant.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
