Description
Billingford (anciently Pierleston or Pullestown) a village and a parish in Norfolk, on the river Waveney, 1 mile E of Scole, and 3 miles SE of Diss station on the G.E.R., with a post office under Scole, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage of the civil parish, 1815; population, 183; of the ecclesiastical, with Thorpe Parva, 223. The manor belonged to Sir S. Burley, the Black Prince's favourite, executed in 1388. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Little Thorpe, in the diocese of Norwich; joint net yearly value, £200 with residence. The church, a very ancient building of flint in the Early English style, was restored in 1881.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
