Description
Westacre, a parish, with a village, in Norfolk, 2 1/2 miles ENE of Narborough station on the G.E.R., and 5 NW of Swaffham. Post town, Swaffham; money order and telegraph office, Castle Acre. Acreage, 3579; population, 416. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. A Black friary was founded here in the time of William Rnfus by Ralph de Toney, went at the dissolution to Sir T. Gresham, and has left some remains. The living is a donative in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £31. The church is a small building of stone in the Perpendicular style.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
