Description
Besthorpe, a parish in Norfolk, on the Roman Road and the G.E.R., 1 mile E of Attleborough, under which it has a post office, and at which there is a money order and telegraph office, and a railway station. Acreage, 2191; population, 487. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich ; net yearly value, £173. The church, a cruciform edifice of flint in the Decorated style, was restored in 1883. Besthorpe Hall is an ancient country mansion of red brick, originally erected in 1590, but which has been much altered and modernised.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
