Description
Bircham, Great, a village and a parish in Norfolk, 3 1/2 miles S of Docking station on the G.E.R., and 10 W by N of Fakenham, with a post office of the name of Bircham, under King's Lynn; money order and telegraph office, Docking. Acreage, 3780; population, 392. The property belongs to the Marquis of Cholmondeley. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £552 with residence. The church is a stone edifice in the Perpendicular style, and there is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
