Description
Pickenham, South, a parish in Norfolk, on the river Wissey, 4 1/2 miles SSE of Swaffham station, and about 3 SW from holme Hale station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Swaffham; money order and telegraph office, Swaffham. Acreage, 1870; population, 169. The manor, with Pickenham Hall, a fine mansion standing in an extensive park, belongs to the Applewhaite family, who are the sole landowners. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich ; net value, £153 with residence, in the gift of the Applewhaite family. The church is a small edifice of stone in the Early English style, is good, has a tower, and contains monuments of the Chutes.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
