Description
Bixley, a village and a parish in Norfolk, 3 miles SE by S of Norwich, which is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Trowse. Acreage, 667; population, 133. Bixley Hall is a handsome edifice built about the middle of last century by Sir Edward Ward. Bixley Lodge is also a pretty country seat. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Earls-Framingham, in the diocese of Norwich; gross joint yearly value, £380 with residence. The church dates from 1272, but has beenjn great part rebuilt; contains a handsome screen and monuments of the Wards, the last of whom was a Countess of Rosebery, and formerly had a shrine of St Wandregesilus, to which pilgrimages were made.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
