Weybourne, Norfolk

Description
Weybourne, a parish, with a village, in Norfolk, on the coast, 3 miles from Sherringham station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway, and 12 1/2 ENE of Walsingham. It has a post office under Holt; money order and telegraph office. Lower Sherringham. It has a coastguard station, and carries on malting, brewing, fishing, and fish-curing. Acreage, 1719; population, 287. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor belongs to the Earl of Orford. An Augustinian Friary was founded here in the time of King John, and has left some remains. The living is a donative in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £40. Patron, the Earl of Orford. The church is a building of flint in the Early English style, and was restored in 1888.