Description
Bawdeswell, a village and a parish in Norfolk. The parish lies a little N of the Wensum river, 3 miles E by S of Foulsham station on the G.E.R., and 4 W by S of Reepham, and has a post and money order office under Dereham; telegraph office, Foulsham. Acreage, 1206; population, 410. Bawdeswell Hall is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross yearly value, £251. The church is a small edifice, rebuilt in 1845, and there are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, and an endowed school.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
