Palling, Norfolk

Description
Palling, a village and a parish in Norfolk. The village stands on the coast, 4 miles E by N of Stalham station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway, and 12 ESE of North Walsham, and is a small place inhabited chiefly by fishermen. It has a post office under Norwich ; money order office, Hickling; telegraph office, Stalham. The parish is sometimes called Palling-near-the Sea. Acreage, 859; population of the civil parish, 895; of the ecclesiastical, with Waxham, 508. There is a parish council consisting of seven members and a chairman. The manor belongs to the Tilletfc family. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the rectory of Waxham, in the diocese of Norwich; joint net value, £271 with residence. The church is an ancient building of flint and. stone, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and a low embattled western tower. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel, a lifeboat station and a coastguard station.