Description
Wendling, a parish, with a village, in Norfolk, with a station on the G.E.R., 121 miles from London, and 4 W of East Dereham. It has a post office under Dereham; money order office, Little Frencham; telegraph office, Dereham. Acreage, 1472; population of the civil parish, 393; of the ecclesiastical, with Longham, 696. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. A Premonstratensian abbey was founded here before 1267 by W. de Wendling, and was given at the dissolution to R. Hogan. The living is a rectory, annexed to Longham. The church is a small building in the Early English style. There is a Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
