Description
Marlingford, a village and a parish in Norfolk, 5 miles N from Hethersett station on the Thetford and Norwich section of the G.E.R., and 6 W by S from Norwich. There is a post office under Norwich; money order and telegraph office, Honingham. Acreage, 717; population, 233. The manor, with Marlingford Hall, belongs to the Fletcher family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £123 with residence. The church is a building of flint and rubble in the Early English and Decorated styles. It has a Norman doorway, a Norman font, and some ancient memo-a-ials. There are some small charities.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
