Description
Beechamwell, a village and a parish in Norfolk, 4 1/2 miles S of Narborough railway station on the G.E.R., and o SW of Swaffham, under which there is a post and money order office, and at which is the telegraph office. Acreage, 3996; population of the civil parish, 363 ; of the ecclesiastical, with Shingham, 409. Beechamwell Hall is a chief residence. The living is a rectory, with that of Beechamwell St John, Beechamwell All Saints, and Shingham annexed; gross yearly value, £348 with two residences. Beechamwell church is a small building of flint, with an ancient round western tower. Shingham Church has a fine Norman porch of a very early date.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
