Wereham, Norfolk

Description
Wereham, a parish, with a village, in Norfolk, 1 1/2 mile from Stoke Ferry station on the G.E.R., and 5 1/2 miles ESE of Downham. It has a post office under Stoke Ferry; money order and telegraph office, Stoke Ferry. Acreage, 2228; population of the civil parish, 554; of the ecclesiastical, with Wretton, 928. There are several handsome residences in the neighbourhood. A Benedictine priory, a cell to Mountstrol in France, was founded here in the time of King John, was annexed in 1321 to West Dereham Monastery, and went at the dissolution, as part of that monastery's possessions, to T. Guibon and W. Mynn. The living is a vicarage, united with Wretton, in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £135. The church is a small and plain building of flint and stone. There is a Wesleyan chapel.