Description
Beetley, a parish in Norfolk, 3 miles WSW of North Elmham station on the G.E.R., and 4 N by W of East Dereham, under which it has a post office; money order and telegraph office, Gressenhall. Acreage, 2121; population of the civil parish, 366; of the ecclesiastical, with East Bilney, 508. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of East Bilney, in the diocese of Norwich. The church is a small building of flint in the Early English style. There is also a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
