Description
Barningham, Little, or Barningham-Parva, a parish in Norfolk, 6 miles NNW of Aylsham, and 3 from Corpusty station on the Eastern & Midlands railway. Norwich is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Aldborough. Acreage, 1251; population, 219. A market and a fair were formerly held here, under charter of Edward I. to Walter de Berningham, lord of the manor. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £166, in the gift of the Earl of Orford. The church, dedicated to St Andrew, is an old building of flint. Its chancel was thoroughly restored in 1878-79. There is also a Free Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
