Description
Baconsthorpe, a parish in Norfolk, 3 miles ESE of Holt station on the Eastern and Midland Railway, and 7 SW from Cromer. It has a post and money order office under Holt, which is the telegraph office. Acreage, 1365 ; population, 295. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £266 with residence. The church is Later English. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
