Description
Bessingham or Bassingham, a parish in Norfolk, 6 miles SW of Cromer, and 6 NW from Gunton station on the G.E.R. Post town, Norwich; money order and telegraph office, Aldborough. Acreage, 495; population, 125. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £193. The church, a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, has a round tower, and was restored in 1869. The moat-yard near it is a fosse-girt tumulus of about 1/2 an acre. It was probably a Roman encampment, some Roman pottery having been found there in 1870. In 1884 a detached portion of this parish was added to Barningham Winter under the Divided Parishes Act.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
