Description
Bacton, a parish in Norfolk, on the coast, 4 1/2 miles NE of North Walsham station on the G.E.R., and 19 NNE of Norwich. It includes the hamlets of Bacton-Green and Bromholm, and has a post and money order office under North Walsham, the telegraph office. Acreage, 1139, with 95 of foreshore; population of the civil parish, 394; of the ecclesiastical, 434. Ruins of a Cluniac priory, founded in 1113 by Baxton de Glanville, stand at Bromholm. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £166 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Kimberley. The church is an ancient structure, with a square tower, has a good font, and is in good condition. There are a Baptist chapel and a coastguard station.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
